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1、LecturesonEnglishLiteratureforPostgraduatesPartOne:PoliticalandSocialBackgroundsI.EarlyandMiddleAges1.HistoricalPeriods1)TheAnglo-SaxonPeriod(5thC・11thC)2)TheFrench-NormanPeriod(11thC-14thC)3)TheFifteenthCentury2.PoliticalEvents1)TheRomanConquest(15B.C.-410A.D.)2)TheEng
2、lishConquest(from5thC)3)TheDanishInvasion(about30yearsin11thC)4)TheNormanConquest(from1066A.D.)5)TheRisingof13816)TheHundredYearWar3.SocialSystems1)TransitionfromTribalismtoFeudalism2)TransitionfromFeudalismtoCapitalism4.WritersandWorks1)Alfred:historian,Anglo-SaxonChro
3、nicle2)Bede:religiouswriter,EcclesiasticalHistory3)Gower:Writerforbiglandlords,ConfessioAmantis4)Langland:Writerformiddleandsmalllandbords,Piers(the)Plowman5)Anunknownwriter:Writerforknightsd,SirGawainandtheGreenKinght6)Chaucer:epitomizeroffeudalliterature,TheCanterbury
4、Tales7)Wychiffe:religiousreformer,TheFirstTranslationof“TheBible8)Malory:epitomizerofknighthood,LeMorteDyArthur5.Significance:1)TheAnglo-Saxonsweretransformedintoaraceoffarmer-citizensandreceivedChristianitywhichbroughtthemanewcivilization.2)TheNormanConquestbroughttoEn
5、glandthefeudalsystemandthezestforjoyandstatelyceremony.II.Renaissance1-HistoricalPeriods1)TheFirstPeriod(late15th-early16thC)2)TheSecondPeriod(late16thC)3)TheThirdPeriod(firstquarterof17thC)2.PoliticalEvents1)TheWaroftheRoses2)TheHundredYears,War3)TheMovementofRenaissan
6、ce4)TheReformation3.SocialSystem1)Acentralizedmonanarchy,TudorDynasty,wasfounded・2)Protestantismwasgaininggroundamongthepopulation.4.WritersandWorks1)More:followeroftheOxfordReformers,Utopia1)Spenser:thelinkbetweentheprecedingandthefollowing,TheFoerieQueene2)Shakespeare
7、:representativeoftheRenaissance,Hamlet3)Bacon:founderofEnglishmaterialistphilosophy,NewInstrument2.Significance1)Theagewasmarkedbyastrongnationalspirit,bypatriotism,byreligioustolerance,bysocialcontent,byintellectualprogress,andbyunboundedenthusiasm.2)Theagewasalsopagan
8、andsensuous,whichledtomoraldegradation.I.ThePuritanRevolution1.HistoricalPeriods1)TheRevolutionPeriod2)TheRest
