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- Defeated the saxorns and for about a decade halted their advance.
- Romance stories became popular (500-1400). It involves romantic love or ideals like heroic bravery or loyalty

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-The anglosaxons accepted Christianity after Pope Gregory sent Saint Augustine to Britain.

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-   King Hrothgar is being pestered by Grendel.  His mother of him was a Monster at the bottom of the lake
- part southern sweden- 50 years later.  He has to fight a fire breathing dragon
- Honor
-  kennings- metaphorical descriptive phrases or compound words Battie- sweat = blood
- Internal Rhyme-A Word within a line rhyming with a Word at the end of the line

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-Father of anglosaxon poetry .
-His Works were based on the old testament . "
- "Exodus" "Daniel" "Hymn of creation."

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- Wrote about historical events connected to christianity
• The fates of Apostles" "The ascension"
• "Elene".
- Cynewulf's work is clear and technically elegant

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- Northumbria gained political supremacy.
- Wessex won supremacy under the guidance of Egbert.

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- Invaded the country easily overcame the local inhabitants ans plundered their States.
- With Alfred the great they stopped.
- Edward, son of the french Emma of Normandy took over the throne.

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- He translated many Works from latin, especially in the areas of religion, history and philosophy The first translated Works included "the pastor's book "Baede's church history"

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- Wulfstan the archibishop of York wrote civil and church related legal codes as well as homilies. He denounced the morals of his time.

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BEOWULF. Old English story by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet. The poem tells a story of a strong and brave warrior (Beowulf) who defeats monsters and goes on to become King. Fifty years after his last battle with Grendel's mother, Beowulf is forced to fight a dragon after a slave steals a golden cup from its lair. Beowulf shows many characteristics of that era, among them a conflict between good and evil, elegy, kennings, there are epic heros.

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- The Anglo- saxons falled to prevent a viking invasion.
– the greatest battle poem in English. An Anglo-Saxon old english poem which describes a battle between the Vikings warriors from Denmark at Maldon in Essex on the river Blackwater.

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- It has been called the greatest battle poem in English. It is an Anglo- Saxon poem by an unknown poet.
- It describes a battle between the viking Warriors from Denmark in AD 991 at Maldon in Essex on the river Blackwater, then called the river Pantan.
- The original manuscript was destroyed in a fire in the 18th century and survives only in transcript.
- Only 325 lines of the poem are existent and the rest is lost.

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- Old English was spoken in very different dialects until 1066, when England was invaded by William the Conqueror, vs Harold, and the Normans from France who were descended from Scandinavian adventurers.
- The normans were the 1st to bring the culture and the practical ideals of norman Civilization home to the english people.

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- They forded upon England the national ideal of the centralized government.
- They brought to England the wealth of a new language and literature.
- The anglo saxons had a superior literature many of the writings were destroyed by the Danes.

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- The origin of drama goes back to brief scenes that monks acted out in churches to illustrate bible stories.
- These later developed into full lenght plays two strong undercurrents influenced early drama.
- Folk plays based on ancient nature cults and pagan traditions and classic greek and latin drama.
- Easter and christmas ceremonies developed into major drama in the 9th and 10th centuries.

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1337 - 1360. Edward III Hundred's years 

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1337 - 1360. Edward III Hundred's years 

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- Edward III hundred's years war separated England from the political ties of france.
- The french language lost its oficial prestige and English became the speech of the pariament courts and the common people.
- Trade was increasing enourmously.

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- A man in love with a married woman of a higher rank was required to prove his heroics deeds as well as presenting love letters to his beloved without disclosing his identity. It was a secret affait between the lovers with no intimacy involved. It was a tantamount equivalent to adultery.
- Growing audience, diverse folks. The apearance of social classes. An audience of women.
- New type of secular entertainment, the code continued became chivalric.

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- Impersonality-Anonymous a text was exposed both unconscious alteration and conscious change.
- Originality wasn't important story material in particular was looked upon as common property.
- Religion was important.
- Oral quality-It was meant to be listened rather tan read, books were expensive.
- The appearance of romance and humour.
- Romance - literary genre popular in the middle ages, dealing inversed or prose, with legendary supernatural or amorous subjects and characters.

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- Old English poems that lament the loss of wordly goods, glory or human companionship.
- Life is passing and it's full of struggles and suffering.