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    The document provides an overview of literary movements during the Anglo-Saxon period in England. It discusses the Roman occupation of England, the Anglo-Saxon invasions beginning in the 5th century AD that displaced Latin and brought Old English and paganism. Christianity was reintroduced through missionaries like Augustine in the 6th century. Vikings from Norway and Denmark known as Danes raided England until King Alfred the Great defended Wessex and translated Latin texts to Old English, establishing English literature. Examples of early English literature discussed include the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Caedmon's Hymn, the poem The Wife's Lament, and riddles in the Ex

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    The document provides an overview of literary movements during the Anglo-Saxon period in England. It discusses the Roman occupation of England, the Anglo-Saxon invasions beginning in the 5th century AD that displaced Latin and brought Old English and paganism. Christianity was reintroduced through missionaries like Augustine in the 6th century. Vikings from Norway and Denmark known as Danes raided England until King Alfred the Great defended Wessex and translated Latin texts to Old English, establishing English literature. Examples of early English literature discussed include the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Caedmon's Hymn, the poem The Wife's Lament, and riddles in the Ex

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    Adeel Raza

    Literary Movements

    The Anglo-Saxon Period


    Roman England
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    Julius Caesar came to England in 55 BC


    England was added to the Roman Empire as province Britannia
    Emperor Hadrian built a 73-miles-long wall to protect Britannia from Scots
    and Picts, who tried to invade Britannia.
    When Rome became Christian, Roman missionaries spread the gospel in
    Britain.
    In 410 Goths swept down on Rome, Britannia was left to itself and the
    country was ravaged by Barbarians from Scotland and pirates from Ireland
    Anglo-Saxon invasions

    After several invaders, the Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from northern
    Germany to invade cities. These people were pagans and with their
    invasions Christianity died.
    Britain came to be called Angle-land now and people spoke Anglo-Saxon.
    The Anglo-Saxon tribes who had invaded Britain gradually merged into
    seven kingdoms: Northumbria, Mercia, East-Anglia, Essex, Wessex, Sussex
    and Kent.
    Mission of Augustine

    Christianity was brought back to Britain by means of Augustine, the first


    archbishop of the Church of England.
    Christianity spread rapidly and a new, Christian civilization began to take
    shape.
    Danes invade England

    New invaders came from Norway and Denmark. They were Vikings, but the
    English called them Danes.
    The Danes would probably have wiped out Christianity, but Alfred the
    Great, King of Wessex, protected it by defeating the Danes great army and
    having them promised to be baptised and be Christians as well.
    Alfred the Great founded English literature by translating Latin books into
    Anglo-Saxon. He built schools and ordered the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the
    first historical record of England, to be begun.
    After Alfreds death Danes came again and again until 1042 when the
    empire of king Canute of Norway and Denmark fell apart. The Danish
    dynasty in England ended and Edward the Confessor came to the throne.
    Old English Literature

    Beginnings of English literature appeared in the 7 th or 8th century AD.


    St Augustine established a Benedictine abbey at Canterbury which became
    the centre of learning and scholarship of all Western Europe.
    Early works of scholarship

    Among others, two monks contributed to Old English Literature:


    Bede the Venerable -> Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum

    Adeel Raza
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    Literary Movements

    Alcuin -> responsible for revival of Latin scripts under Charlemagne


    Alfred the Great also contributed to literature by starting the Anglo-Saxon
    Chronicle and by translating the Historia blablabla into Old English. He also
    encouraged other scholars to translate Latin literature into Old English.
    Examples of Old English Literature

    There are several examples of Old English literature. The Anglo-Saxon


    Chronicle and the aforementioned Historia blablabla are one of them.
    The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the earliest known history of English, written
    in the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) language.
    One of the other examples is the Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
    itself, which was written in Latin by Bede the Venerable. Besides writing,
    Bede also introduced the practise of dating events from the birth of Christ
    from ad 0. AD stands for Anno Domini (the year of our Lord). This method
    of dating is still in use today.
    The Historia Ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum contains among others the
    story of the Conversion of Edwin and the Poet Caedmon.
    (Examples of) Old English Poetry

    There are several examples of early English poetry:


    Beowulf is one of them. This poem is a blend of Christianity and paganism.
    The language in Beowulf resembles modern German in grammar and much
    of its vocabulary. The language is also an inflectional one: it has many
    case endings for nouns, pronouns, adjectives and a complex system of
    verbs. Beowulf was composed in Northumbria or West Mercia by an
    unknown author. Although the poem teaches us a lot about Anglo-Saxon
    ideals of heroism and kingship, the characters themselves are not AngloSaxon but related to Germanic people (Geats and Danes from
    Scandinavia).
    Another example is The Wifes Lament from the Exeter Book (a collection
    of poems written in Old English -> the author of The Wifes Lament is
    unknown.
    The last example is the Anglo-Saxon riddles. Also published in the Exeter
    Book, which contains 95 of them.
    Help! What to study?

    Study the notes/summary make sure you know everything from the
    notes.
    The Conversion of Edwin: study the answers to the questions 1 3 on p
    14 of your reader. You should also be able to summarize the story of Edwin.
    The Poet Caedmon: study the answers to the questions 1 4 on pp 1718 of your reader (4: only the first question). You should be able to
    summarize the story of Caedmon as well.
    The Wifes Lament: study the answers to the questions on the hand-out.
    You should also be able to summarize The Wifes Lament.
    The three riddles discussed in class: study them and make sure you
    know what they are about. You should be able to give arguments for the
    solutions to the riddles.
    Beowulf: Study the plot overview (hand-out) very carefully. Make sure you
    know the names of the characters and items mentioned in the overview.

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