Term
|
Definition
| Christian Missionaries Bring Christianity to England... Literacy comes with it. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Caedmon's Hymn - First English Poet We know about. Combines Christian Themes with Germanic Style. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Wife's Lament, Beowulf, Dream of the Rood |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Norman Conquest of England... bring french influence. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Wace (round table), Chretien (wrote in latin, courtly love with arthurian legend, south of france influence), Marie De France (Breton Lai = Lanval) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Chaucer, Gawain Poet(Sir Gawain the Green Knight) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Mystics = Julian of Norwich and Margery Kemp |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Everyman Play (Miracle Play), 2nd Shepherd's Play (Mystery Play). |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Caxton was the first english printer |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Reformation, English Renaissance (Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, Bacon, Webster(dutchess of Malfi)) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Queen Elizabeth (Shakespeare, Bacon) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| King James Bible, was a literary work, written in english. from now on authors quote this bible. Milton |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Commonwealth (puritans: milton, peypes, bunyan) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Restoration of King Charles II. Restoration Comedy, Pepypes, Congrieve. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Glorious Revolutoin (King William and Mary take over, without bloodshed, marks end of religious conflicts between Catholics, Descenters, Church of England) Begins political rivals of Whigs and Tories. Locke and Hume is early 1700’s) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Death of Swift and Pope.. Dr. Johnson is more dominant after and Boswell and Burney and Burke. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Paradise Lost - John Milton |
|
|
