English literature
the French. With the religious works bulk much larger and important writers are Thomas More, Jeremy
Taylor, etc. The main tradition of vernacular prose began in England in late 800s with the Anglo-Saxon
chronicle and with the group of translations made or inspired by the king himself. However, the best of
Anglo-Saxon prose was produced a century later by the monks Wulfstan and Ælric, who left a large
number of writings devoted to the exposition of Christian faith. That includes homilies and Saint's
Lives. It is now believed that these monks were responsible for developing the form of written English
known as Late West Saxon. Ælric was a grammarian, he wrote the first Latin grammar in English. One
of the main characteristics is immediacy.
4. The medieval and eliz. world picture. The Elizabethan age was the age of the renaissance, but the
Elizabethans were much closer to a medieval way of thinking. Above all earthly and cosmic laws or
orders there is Law in general