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Chapter Ⅱ
The Norman Period
(1066-1350)
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1,Historical background,
? 1066 Norman Conquest
? Ca.1200 Beginnings of Middle English
literature
? 1336 Edward Ⅲ began the One -
Hundred -Year -War
? 1348 The Black Death
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2,Middle English
? Anglo-Saxon speech simplified itself by
dropping of its Teutonic inflections,It
absorbed large part of French vocabulary,
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3,Religious literature
? The church had a monopoly of literature
during much of the Middle Ages,
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4,Romance and the influence of
French literature
? The bright,romantic tales of love and
adventure were in contrast with the
strength and somberness of Anglo-Saxon
poetry,
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A Review,English Literature
of the Late Middle Ages
?English Literature from Mid-11th
Century to the Mid-14th Century
?English Literature of the Second Half
of the 14th Century
?English Literature of the Fifteenth
Century
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English Literature from Mid-11th
Century to the Mid-14th Century
? Folk literature and Religious Literature
? Early Alliterative and Metrical Romances
in 12th,13th,14th century,Sir Gawain and
The Green Knight