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| The Venerable Bede (673-735 CE) |
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"The ecclesiastical history of the english people"
"Father of English people" |
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| Ecclesiastical history of the english people |
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Bede 731
Begins with caesar invasion in 55 BCE.
augustines mission to england 597 CE
Gregory the greats death
evangalize northumbria
council of whitby
Pro Northumbria and celtic irish bias |
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tenth century Anthology of anglo saxon literature and largest collection of old english literature
Includes:
The wanderer
THe wife's Lament |
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Probably written by caedmon
Tree tell of crucifixion of Christ, takes on his role and endures.
Cross presented as loyal retainer who must serve in christs death.
Dream poem
Vercelli Book |
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Ubi sunt (where have they gone)
Beasts of battle
focus on traveling motif
most debated and argued poem
alliterative
Sorrow, world is transient, man has lost its lord, passing of heroic world |
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A powerful but not quite personified force, the closest parallel in modern english is Fate.
"What Happens"- usually in a negative sense |
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| Intense personal longing for an absent husband or lover |
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Longest surviving poem in old Enlgish
probably a mixture of historia and fabula and Orally passed down.
Geatish and Swedish Wars
3 Antagonist-Grendel, Grendels Mother, Dragon.
Epic Poem
Themes= Kinship, Weregild,
Beowulf as Christ character (king dying for his men, bravery) |
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| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
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Pearl Poet
Alliterative romance
sir gawain night of the round table
Themes
Courtly love
chivalry and loyalty
highly symbolic colors tropes and object ie. Green, girdle, mother mary, pentangle, the number five...
Wounds = outward sign of inward sin
Key characters-
Sir gawain, Lady Bertilak, The green knight
Bob and wheel metrical device |
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Sir Thomas Malory
Arthurian literature
one of the first to be published by caxton |
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Anchoress and Mystic whose major title is sixteen revelations of divine love.
Focuses optimistically on gods love being only thing necessary and concrete.
"...All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well" |
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The book of Margery Kemp
Possibly the first extant autobiography
pilgrimages.
More vainglorious; refers to herself as sinful wretch |
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canadian film in french which parallels the life of Daniel an actor who is putting on a passion play and the life of jesus christ.
Ie
calling him "a much better actor", which echoes John the Baptist foretelling the arrival of Jesus the messiah. The first actor's head is later used in an advertisement, paralleling John the Baptist's beheading. The actors then gather for the Passion play, some of them leaving safe jobs to do so, recalling Jesus gathering the disciples. Daniel wrecks an advertising casting session, just as Jesus casts the money-lenders out of the Temple. His arrest and court appearance before an indecisive judge parallels Jesus' appearance before Pontius Pilate. The ambitious lawyer, who lays out a grand commercial career for Daniel, looking down from a skyscraper at the city, refers to the temptation of Christ by the devil atop a high pinnacle. Jesus' miracles, as well as his resurrection and ascension to Glory on the Father's right hand, are paralleled by Daniel becoming an organ donor, and the founding of the church becomes the plans for an experimental theatre company. |
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Latin for "Whom do you seek"
Most medieval drama comes from this source which is taking from the easter liturgy.
evolved into liturgical dramas and mystery plays. |
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Estates Satire although the entire work is a frame narrative. Chaucer satirizes the clergy especially.
Tells of all of the 29 pilgrims occupation, condition array and social degree. |
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