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1、标准文档英国文学史Partone:EarlyandMedievalEnglishLiteratureChapter1TheMakingofEngland1.TheearlyinhabitantsintheislandnowwecallEnglandwereBritons,atribeofGelts.2.In55B.C.,BritainwasinvadedbyJuliusCaesar.TheRomanoccupationlastedforabout400years.ItwasalsoduringtheRomanrol

2、ethatChristianitywasintroducedtoBritain.Andin410A.D.,alltheRomantroopswentbacktothecontinentandneverreturned.3.TheEnglishConquestAtthesametimeBritainwasinvadedbyswarmsofpirates(海盗).TheywerethreetribesfromNorthernEurope:theAngles,SaxonsandJutes.Andbythe7thcentu

3、rythesesmallkingdomswerecombinedintoaUnitedKingdomcalledEngland,or,thelandofAngles.AndthethreedialectsspokenbythemnaturallygrewintoasinglelanguagecalledAnglo-Saxon,orOldEnglish.4.TheSocialConditionoftheAnglo-SaxonTherefore,theAnglo-Saxonperiodwitnessedatransit

4、ionfromtribalsocietytofeudalism.5.Anglo-SaxonReligiousBeliefandItsInfluenceTheAnglo-SaxonswereChristianizedintheseventhcentury.Chapter2Beowulf1.Anglo-SaxonPoetryButthereisonelongpoemofover3,000lines.ItisBeowulf,thenationalepicoftheEnglishpeople.Grendelisamonst

5、erdescribedinBeowulf.3.AnalysisofItsContentBeowulfisafolklengendbroughttoEnglandbyAnglo-Saxonsfromtheircontinentalhomes.Ithadbeenpassedfrommouthtomouthforhundredsofyearsbeforeitwaswrittendowninthetenthcentury.4.FeaturesofBeowulf实用文案标准文档Themoststrikingfeaturein

6、itspoeticalformistheuseofalliteration,metaphorsandunderstatements.Chapter3FeudalEngland1)TheNormanConquest2.TheNormanConquestTheFrench-speakingNormansunderDukeWilliamcamein1066.AfterdefeatingtheEnglishatHastings,WilliamwascrownedasKingofEngland.TheNormanConque

7、stmarkstheestablishmentoffeudalisminEngland.3.TheInfluenceoftheNormanConquestontheEnglishLanguageBytheendofthefourteenthcentury,whenNormansandEnglishintermingled,Englishwasoncemorethedominantspeechinthecountry.3)TheRomance1.TheContentoftheRomanceThemostprevail

8、ingkindofliteratureinfeudalEnglandwastheromance.4.Malory’sLeMorteD’ArthurTheadventuresoftheKnightsoftheRoundTableatArthur’scourtChapter5TheEnglishBallads2.TheBalladsThemostimportan