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| The three main British kingdoms |
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| The end of Anglo-Saxon period |
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Year 1066,
England becomes Norman; French cultural and linguistic invasion |
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| Poetry written in Wessex; Mercian retained by the peasants (the one we know of now) |
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| The four remaining manuscripts of poetry from this period |
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| Characteristics of poetry |
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kinship ties,
heroism in battle,
courage and personal strength,
royal generosity,
reciprocity (King: Giver of Rings),
atmosphere is grim and austere |
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ship = keel;
one part used to characterize the whole |
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sword = iron;
"Hand me your iron." |
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| two words joined together to make a third (whale road = sea, life-house = body, bone-locker = body) |
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| repetition/restatement of a noun |
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| repetition of consonant sounds |
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| Religious characteristics |
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| fusion of folklore (residual paganism) and Orthodox Christianity |
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| giving voice to an inanimate object |
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| a word that only appears once in the entire corpus of English literature |
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peace-weaver;
role of women/marriage amongst the elite |
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| Christianity dominates by this time |
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| bride of Christ (affective piety) |
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| To imitate Christ in one's life |
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| Chaucer's model of tragedy or Wheel of Fortune |
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| Sorrow -> Purgatory -> Paradise -> Anti-purgatory -> Sorrow |
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| Rhyme Royal or Chaucerian Stanza |
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found in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
ABABA |
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| the attachment of ideas, values, persons or a way of life to a specific material object; combination of attitudes |
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| self-sufficient narrative that signifies another series of events or conditions |
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| motion picture : still-frame |
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we can know, describe God;
we cannot |
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| a process of transformation affected by a desire for and consciousness of the immediate presence of God |
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