Old English Literature
2) New buildings and fortification of England
3) French influences to the English language. French as the language of the ruling classes for
nearly 300 years.
4) Adoption of the European feudalism. King the most powerful man in the country; Barons
and lords king's closest advisors and friends, members of aristrocracy, had absolute power
in their territories; Knights, merchants and yeoman the middle classes, could own small
pieces of land; Villens and serfs did not own land and worked for the aristocracy slaves no
land, owned by the lords and used as they wished.
5) 1086 Domesday Book to improve taxation
6) Reforms the legal system : The Common Law
7) 1215 a first government is assigned
8.) Types of literature most prominent in the middle ages ( didactic poems, Chivalric romance,
Fables, Ballads). What is Chivalric romance, where does it originate from? What are the three
categories describe each of them
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