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Anglo Saxon conquered Celt’s

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AD 449

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2
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Normoons conquered anglo-Saxons

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AD1066

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Historical background pre-anglo Saxon

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  • earliest people the celts(Gaelic)
  • Rome conquered celts
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4
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Code of comatitus

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(Loyalty)
—agreement between lord of Athens
—warriors serve/protect lord (be brave, courageous, loyal)
— LORD REWARD

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5
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Language of anglo Saxon period

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Old English

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6
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Greatest anglo Saxon poem

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Beowulf

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7
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Oldest surviving German epic

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Beowulf

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8
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What happened in the first part of Beowulf

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Beowulf kills Grendel and Grendel’s mother

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9
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Beowulf dies fighting a dragon

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Part 2

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10
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Hrothgar

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King

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11
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Brother of king

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Ecgatheow

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12
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Code of of comitatus

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Revenge,heroism, (personal glory), fate

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13
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Repeated ideas

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Parallelism

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14
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Compound noun

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Kenning

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15
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Censura

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Pause

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16
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Repetition of initial sound

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Alliteration

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17
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Was brave and boast

18
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Medieval period

19
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Battle of Hastings

20
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Rise of the Roman Catholic Church

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5th century

21
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Crusaded to repel Muslim in holy land

22
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William Caxton brought first printing press to England

23
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End of civil war end of literary period

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Farther of English literature ; helped to make everyday spoke. Noisy acceptable

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Geoffrey Chaucer

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Host in the counterberry tales
Harvey baley
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Genre in the counter berry tales
Satire
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The genre in the nuns priest
Beast fable
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Characters of romantic love
Chanticleer and pertlote
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Writer of Lemort de Arthur; competed in 1470
Sir Thomas Malory
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Themes of lemort de Arthur theme
Loyalty, chivalry,betrayal,revenge
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The golden age of British lit
Henry VII-James I; and the Elizabethan period
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The golden age of British lit
Henry VII-James I; the Elizabethan period
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End of civil war ; Henry VII became king
1485
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James died
1635
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Wrote sonnet 75
Edmand Spencer
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Renaissance means
Rebirth
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Best period for drama
Renissance
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Sonnet 75 is a
Spensirian sonnet
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Is one of the earliest sonnet sequence in English
Amorretie
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Shakespear greatest dramatic rival ; wrote the passionate Sheppard to his love
Christopher marlow
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Wrote sonnet 18
William shakespear

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