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1、英国文学史Partone:EarlyandMedievalEnglishLiteratureChapter1TheMakingofEngland1.TheearlyinhabitantsintheislandnowwecallEnglandwereBritons,atribeofGelts.2.In55B.C.,BritainwasinvadedbyJuliusCaesar.TheRomanoccupationlastedforabout400years.ItwasalsoduringtheRomanrolethatChristianitywasi

2、ntroducedtoBritain.Andin410A.D.,alltheRomantroopswentbacktothecontinentandneverreturned.3.TheEnglishConquestAtthesametimeBritainwasinvadedbyswarmsofpirates(海盗).TheywerethreetribesfromNorthernEurope:theAngles,SaxonsandJutes.Andbythe7thcenturythesesmallkingdomswerecombinedintoaU

3、nitedKingdomcalledEngland,or,thelandofAngles.AndthethreedialectsspokenbythemnaturallygrewintoasinglelanguagecalledAnglo-Saxon,orOldEnglish.4.TheSocialConditionoftheAnglo-SaxonTherefore,theAnglo-Saxonperiodwitnessedatransitionfromtribalsocietytofeudalism.5.Anglo-SaxonReligiousB

4、eliefandItsInfluenceTheAnglo-SaxonswereChristianizedintheseventhcentury.Chapter2Beowulf1.Anglo-SaxonPoetryButthereisonelongpoemofover3,000lines.ItisBeowulf,thenationalepicoftheEnglishpeople.GrendelisamonsterdescribedinBeowulf.3.AnalysisofItsContentBeowulfisafolklengendbroughtt

5、oEnglandbyAnglo-Saxonsfromtheircontinentalhomes.Ithadbeenpassedfrommouthtomouthforhundredsofyearsbeforeitwaswrittendowninthetenthcentury.4.FeaturesofBeowulfThemoststrikingfeatureinitspoeticalformistheuseofalliteration,metaphorsandunderstatements.Chapter3FeudalEngland1)TheNorma

6、nConquest2.TheNormanConquestTheFrench-speakingNormansunderDukeWilliamcamein1066.AfterdefeatingtheEnglishatHastings,WilliamwascrownedasKingofEngland.TheNormanConquestmarkstheestablishmentoffeudalisminEngland.3.TheInfluenceoftheNormanConquestontheEnglishLanguageBytheendofthefour

7、teenthcentury,whenNormansandEnglishintermingled,Englishwasoncemorethedominantspeechinthecountry.3)TheRomance1.TheContentoftheRomanceThemostprevailingkindofliteratureinfeudalEnglandwastheromance.4.Malory’sLeMorteD’ArthurTheadventuresoftheKnightsoftheRoundTableatArthur’scourtCha

8、pter5TheEnglishBallads2.TheBalladsThemostimportantdepartmento