"aelfric" - 1 õppematerjal

History of English literature

house ­ the body; sword-game ­ war; Beowulf ­ bee + wolf = bear) 8. Parallelism ­ the repetition of the same ideas, sometimes in slightly different form. A-S prose: · Venerable Bede ­ lived in the 7th century, a well-educated man, a theologician who knew all the religious texts. Wrote only in Latin. Most well-known work ­ Ecclesiastical history (religious history). The history of England from Caesar's invasion until 731. · Aelfric ­ a monk who lived in the 11th century. · Alfred, King of Wessex (at one point there were 7 kingdoms ­ Sussex, Essex, Wessex, Northumbria, Mercia, East Anglia, Kent). Wrote in his native A-S dialect, his greatest work is called ,,The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle". History of England, even more detailed than Bede's. The Norman period / the late Medieval period The Kingdom was more or less unified and was conquered by William who came from Normandy