BRITISH LITERATURE

TIME LINE

 

 

 

The Mysteries of Stonehenge

Who?Why?

Where? When? and HOW?

 

 

The Roman Occupation

50BC - AD 409

 

CHARACTERISTICS

 

The Roman Baths

Bath, England

 

 

THE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD

 

AD 449 - 1066

 

HISTORICAL CONTEXT:

Invasions of the Germanic Tribes

Addition of Germanic languages

Society centers on clans or tribes

Reign of King Arthur?

Belief in wyrd

Establishment of Christianity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Scop shares the tales of heroes

and monsters, of epic battles, of kings

and great warriors.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LITERATURE

Oral tradition  
Stories told by Scops  
Complex riddles  
Unique Poetic Form  

-4-beat line

  

-Caesura

  

-Hyperbole

  

-Kenning

  

-Alliteration

  

 

 

 

from THE BOOK OF KELLS

 

 

 

 

MAJOR WORKS:

Beowulf

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

The Exeter Book of Riddles

The writings of Bede

The Book of Kells

Text of The Book of Kells

 

Illumination from The Book of Kells

 

 

 

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD

1066 - 1485

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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