Monday, September 1, 2014

Notes: Pg. 2-14 & pg. 31-60

PAGES 2-14
Conquest of Britain
-Two groups of Celts: Brythons settled on Britain & Gaels settled in Ireland.
-Farmers and hunters, Organized in clans with loyalty, Priests settled disputes.
-Roman conquerers, like Julius Ceasar
-Next Anglo-Saxons, which were fishers who took over more of England. 
Coming Of Christianity
-Romans had accepted it. Although Rome fell, the religion/Celtic church didn't. They established monasteries, promoted peace, and helped to unify English people.after
Danish Invasion 
-Norway wanted Scotland, Whales, and Ireland. Denmark wanted Eastern/southern England. The vikings destroyed monasteries and killed people and England fallen to invaders. 
-King "Alfred the great" was throned, which split between Saxon and Danish territory.
-King preserved danish lifestyle and then Edward became king.
The Norman Conquest 
-Descendants of vikings. Then next came Harold II, but he was killed by William who rightfully took the throne he was promised. The everything shifted from Saxon to Norman lifestyle. 
The Reign of the Plantagenets 
-Henry II founded House of Plant and he had a conflict with the church. 
The Magna Carta 
-Richard I, military expeditions over seas. King John inherited his debt, taxed people, but people resisted, brought brinks to civil war and they made the Magna Carta which was a constitutional Government in England. 
Lancasters, Yorks, And Tudors
-Then came three henry kings of Lanc. Yorks conflicted with them, known as Wars of Rose and they fought over the throne.
Decline of the Feudal System 
-After the plague, labor work increased, which got treated badly and the peasants revolted. 
-But the cause faded, and the fight for social injustices would come again
Literature
-Anglo-Saxon-reciting of poems and they focused on heroes, or deaths of loved ones. 
-English Middle Ages-dramas emerged. Chaucer depicted medieval life, knights, love deeds, outlaws. 
-advancements in printing lead to widespread literature productions
-Romances, Lyrics, and Ballads
English Language
-Derived from low germanic tongue from Saxons.
-Modeled from more sophisticated words from other languages like Latin and Greens
-Mixed with french from Normans and now called Middle English
-The Exeter Book- Collection of manuscripts that included pieces of oral tradition. Properly compiled by monks during Alfred the great's reign. "Seafarer", "Wanderer" and "Wife's Lament" all came from book. Inspired through Anglo-Saxons. 

PAGES 31-60 
-Tristia had moved from her mother country, Dardanian Troy, when it was attacked by the Grecian Army.
-Now in the Pontus, feels like the days go by like years
-Despises the common theme of death races (referring to gladiator games and/or the continuous war between the Romans and their enemies)
-Feels like a barbarian not being able to communicate with people of the new land, had to use body language and was exiled from Rome. 
-"Injured the power of Caesar the god," in result was sent to assimilate with the Scythian race as a punishment
-Believes she deserved to be exiled but not to such a city 
-Portrays the Anglo-Saxon culture of eighth century Britain
-Beowulf: sword-wielding slayer of monsters, upholder of the right, warrior-chieftain
-Takes place in sixth century Scandinavia, speaks Old English
-Beowulf seeks to help the Danish King Hrothgar in fighting the swampland monster, Grendel.
-Scops often told long narrative poems by mouth in Anglo-Saxon England which resulted in it's change and growth
-The Electronic Beowulf Project revived the burnt original manuscripts of Beowulf
-He was the strongest man, Beowulf was going to kill the "monster"

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