BRITISH LITERATURE I

Old English LiteratureMedieval Literature

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Old English literature = Anglo=Saxon literature

(Germanic influence) / sounds like Norse lang. now

5th - Anglo-Saxon invasion

6th - Christianity spread by monks from Rome, churches built, Latin words brought:

priest, monk, candle, school – written in Latin, later liter. written in Old English

8th – 11th cent.: poetry and prose

secular and religious

lyric and epic

genres: war poems, heroic epics

Old English poetry secular poetry

unknown author - ‘Beowulf’ the first literary masterpiece , 8th cent. oral tradition – remembering:

kenning = compound words:

battle sweat = blood, whale road = sea, water ropes = waves

alliteration = the first letter is repeated: “First frightened Frank fled…”

rhyme

religious poetry

CAEDMON ‘Caedmon`s Hymn’

Beowulf - manuscript

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Beowulf

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Old English prose Venerable BEDE (673-735)

‘The Ecclesiastical History of English Nation’ in Latin

Aelfric GRAMMATICUS (950-1020) religious prose, dictionary: Ang.-Saxon x Latin

Alfred the GREAT (849-901)

‘The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle’

- life, history, language of that time

Medieval literature 1100 – 1500

romances of chivalry, chronicles, legends: King Arthur

English influenced by French – grammar, vocabulary

reforms in religion

John WYCLIFF ‘The Wycliff Bible’

Geoffrey CHAUCER (1343 – 1400) greatest poet of Middle Ages, father of English poetry Poet`s Corner philosopher, alchemist, astronomer influenced by Petrarch and Boccaccio, French and Italian:

‘Romance de la Rose’ ‘Troilus and Cressida’

‘ Canterbury Tales’unfinished collection of comic and moral stories30 pilgrimsLondon – Canterbury

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Other medieval literature drama

legends: Will. Wallace, Robin Hood

Sir Thomas MALLORY: ‘Le Morte d` Arthur’

Will. CAXTON: printing press - 1476

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Autor DUM: Mgr. Darina Sikorová