Early Modern English History

With this study we hope to serve the needs of those students and teachers who feel particularly committed to the changes that have characterized our field in recent years. The renewed emphasis on historicism and the decline of formalist aestheticism in medieval studies have rendered it desirable to have a literary history that attends more singularly to the material and social contexts and uses of Old English texts. Although the need is greater than this volume can really satisfy, we hope that the present study will nonetheless prove useful to those who, like us, see literature’s relation to history and culture as our field’s area of chief pedagogical interest, and the respect in which it has most to offer literary studies at large.

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Renaissance Studies, 2007

History of Language, 2019

The role of literature in history is reified by the growth, creation and unification of literary times, movements, events, authors and literary works that follow each other. On the basis of the opposition between normative tradition and experimental innovation, each new literary period, movement, trend results in and rejects the previous ones. Tradition and innovation are part of a single cycle of literary change and growth, contrary yet interrelated, arising under different names in different times and in the context of different movements, trends and literary works. Considering the major periods in the history of English literature, it can be divided mostly in three parts; Old English period, Middle English period and Modern English period. Old English literature, also known as Anglo-Saxon literature, is generally dated between 449/600 (Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invasion of Britain) and 1100/1200 (Norman rule establishment). It is speculated that the British Isles were populated by Iberians until the sixth century BC and by Celts from the sixth / seventh century BC. The year of the Roman conquest is 55 BC, and the years between 410 AD and 441 AD are the time of the Roman withdrawal. 449 is the standard date of the arrival from the land of the Germanic people. The invasion continued for a century and a half with irregular arrivals, up to about 600. During Roman rule, the Christianized Celtic people of Britain were pushed westward by the invaders to Wales and Cornwall and north into Scotland's Highlands, bringing modern Irish, Scottish, and Welsh.

This anthology makes available a selection of historical texts, cultural documents, and images in order to further readers’ thinking about Geoffrey Chaucer’s and other Middle English writers’ works. Several of the historical writings have been regularly mentioned in literary and historical studies while some are less familiar, for instance, the Anonimalle Chronicle’s account of the 1381 revolt and Henry Knighton’s description of the pestilence alongside Froissart’s description of a tournament Richard II held in 1390. The cultural documents are necessarily of many kinds, some again frequently noted in literary and historical criticism while others less so: parliamentary and local acts and trials, letters and testimonies, moral, homiletic, and educational tracts. The images are principally of manuscript pages and illuminations and, like the others, chosen for the student of Middle English literature.

Ijohmn, 2019

In this study, the researcher has talked about Old English or Anglo-Saxons history and literature. He has mentioned that this period contains the formation of an English Nation with a lot of the sides that endure today as well as the regional regime of shires and hundreds. For the duration of this period, Christianity was proven and there was a peak of literature and language. Law and charters were also proven. The researcher has also mentioned that what literature is written in Anglo-Saxon England and in Old English from the 450 AD to the periods after the Norman Conquest of 1066 AD. He also has argued that from where the composed literature begun of the era with reference to the written and composed literature. The major writers of the age are also discussed with their major works. There is slightly touch of the kings of the time have been given in the study with their great contribution with the era. The researcher also declared that what kinds of literary genres were there in the era. It is the very strong mark that Anglo-Saxon poetic literature has bottomless roots in oral tradition but observance with the ethnic performs we have seen elsewhere in Anglo-Saxon culture, there was an amalgamation amid custom and new knowledge. It has been also declared that from which part literary prose of Anglo-Saxon dates and in what language it

Speculum, 2014

The Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain, 2017

The Wiley Encyclopedia of Medieval Literature in Britain is the product of a collaborative undertaking on a massive scale. General Editors Siân Echard and Robert Rouse were joined by Associate Editors Jacqueline A. Fay, Helen Fulton, and Geoff Rector and over 400 Contributors in the production of this reference work of 733 entries of varying lengths and of high quality throughout; commendably, the contributors include graduate students, independent scholars, and professors emeritus as well as tenured and tenure-track professors. The fruit of their collective labor is a deeply capacious and informative reference work that yields answers (and, even better, further questions) to almost anything one asks of it. In its printed form, the Encyclopedia spans four volumes, which proceed alphabetically; in its online e-book form, which is the version under review here, one has the option of browsing the material alphabetically or by topic. Alphabetically, there are a large number of articles under every alphanumeric category except "Q," "X," "Z," and "0-9." Topically, the three main divisions are necessarily broad: "Historical," "Languages and their Literatures," and "Literary." The first umbrella topic of "Historical" is subdivided into "Book