Herhalingsweek Alquin

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English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Timeline (450-1066)

• 55 BC - 450 AD: Great Britain under Roman rule

• After 450 AD: Celts attack, Romans withdraw --> Migration of the people --> Anglo-Saxon settlers

• 7th century turn to Christianity --> increase Latin & Old English literature --> 793 Vikings attack --> Viking settlers

•  8th-11th century Wars for the crown --> 1066 end of Anglo-Saxon era and beginning of Norman period

English Literature

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Seven kingdoms

• In the Anglo Saxon period, society was dominated by lords and retainers, as depicted in Beowulf.
• Poets provided entertainment by reciting well-known poems from memory.

Beowulf

• Heroic epic poem (3,182 lines).
• Oldest European text in vernacular language (Old English).
• Dates from the 6th century(?)
• Oldest copy is a manuscript from the late 10th century (British Museum) by an anonymous monk.
• Lines aren't linked by rhyme, but alliteration.
• Setting is Scandinavia.

English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Anglo Saxon Chronicles

9th-12th century

Alquin, page 11

• literary genre
• annualised record of events covering 1-1154 AD

• independently written in different monasteries
• not 100% reliable

• writers' identities unknown

• writing became increasingly personal and informal over time 
• taking information from various sources

"one of the main windows on this period in English history" 

pages 12-14 Peterborough Chronicle and Worcester Chronicle

Changes in English

Robin Hood

13th-14th century?

Anglo Saxon Chronicles 

9th-12th century

Sir Gawain and the G.K.

late 14th century

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• after 1066

• 1095, 1147

• 1215

• 1348

• 1455-1485

• 1485-1603

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• after 1066

Romanesque

Gothic

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1095, 1147

The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1215

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1348

• 1455-1485
  

• 1485-1603

York vs Lancaster

Tudors

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

Feudal System

English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

late 14th century

Alquin, page 26

• Poem

• Genre: Chivalric Romance

• Derived from French Arthurian tales

• Only one manuscript remains

1. When King Arthur was celebrating New Year's a strange knight arrived and challenged them to cut of his head with his own axe.

2. After Sir Gawain has cut off his head, the Green Knight picks it up and promises to meet Gawain a year later to receive the blow himself.

3. One year later, Sir Gawain goes looking for he Green chapel and stays with a lord on the way.

4. Sir Gawain and the lord agreed to exchange everything they received.

5. The lady of the castle visits Gawain and seduces him.

English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Robin Hood

13th or 14th century

Alquin, pages 40-41

• outlaw

• most popular and permanent figures in English literature 

• ballads
  

• Robin Hood and the Butcher

English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Canterbury Tales

• Geoffrey Chaucer
  

• General Prologue
  

• Pilgrimage
  

• Frame story

Canterbury Tales

24 finished stories

We have discussed:

• Knight
• Miller
• Wife of Bath
• Pardoner