Summary Literary History: From the Middle Ages to Modern age
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Course
Engels
Level
VWO / Gymnasium
Explanation of the literary history from the English Middle Ages to the present with information about the literature at the time, philosophical ideas and the connection to the events that occurred at that time in a convenient PowerPoint file.
Renaissance Romantic Modern
Content:
Content: Content:
- Break down of social norms
- Focus shift from religion to life - Impression and interpretation.
- Objection/rejection religious and
- Aspects of love explored - Struggle nature versus urban
social expectation
Context: Context:
Context:
- Arrival Printing Press - Napoleon Rises to power.
- WW I
- Trade goes international - Growing Industry
- Roaring ’20’s
,Literary History Timeline Medieval Era (449 – 1485
Important Dates Overview
Henry V dies
Anglo – Saxon Invasion Beowulf Domesday Book Richard II deposed Start War of the Roses
ca. 450 ca. 750 1086 1399 1422
579 1066 1387-99 1415 1485
St Augustine starts Norman Invasion Canterbury Tales are Battle of Agincourt Henry VII crowne
converting written - End War of the
- Start Tudor Dyn
, Medieval Era 449 - 1485
• Content: • Zeitgeist:
• Instruct Illiterate Masses. • Patriarchal dominance
• Highly Religious. • Monarchy Rule (mostly)
• Effect: • Class Division
• Church instructs people through. • Illiterate Masses
moral and miracle plays.
• Context:
• Crusades
• Increase in trading.
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