Old english christian literature

Caedmon Cynewulf St. Augustine in 597 monastery Whitby

The Dream of the Rood The Phoenix

Aldhelm (640-709):

“Praise of Virginity” (De laudibus virginitatis sive de virginitate sanctorum)

“Riddles” (Aenigmata)

I talk, but I do not speak my mind

I hear words, but I do not listen to thoughts

When I wake, all see me

When I sleep, all hear me

Many heads are on my shoulders

Many hands are at my feet

The strongest steel cannot break my visage

But the softest whisper can destroy me

Venerable Bede (673-735):

more then 45 Latin works: philological as De orthographia, grammar book of Latin with Latin-Greek dictionary, De arte metrica and De natura retum; astronomic works De temporibus, theological commentaries on Old and New Testament, hagiography, historical works, manuals on physics, arithmetics, music, medecine, etc.

De Temporibus; De Natura Rerum; De Temporum Ratione; Martyrology

The Ecclesiastical History of the English Race (Historia ecclestastica gentis anglorum)

Alchwine (735-804):

Now [we] must honour nu scylun hergan

the guardian of heaven, hefaenricaes uard

the might of the architect, metudæs maecti

and his purpose, end his modgidanc

the work of the father of glory uerc uuldurfadur

— as he, the eternal lord, swe he uundra gihwaes

established

the beginning of wonders.

He, the holy creator,

first created heaven as a roof

for the children of men.

Then the guardian of mankind

the eternal lord,

the lord almighty

afterwards appointed

the middle earth,

the lands, for men.

Genesis, Exodus, Daniel

Juliana, The Fates of the Apostles and Elene, Guthlac, Andreas and The Phoenix

Physiologus

English Literature from the Norman Conquest till the 14th c.

Edward the Confessor 14 October 1066

Latin english literature of the 11th-13th cc.

Walter Map William of Malmesbury Henry of Huntingdon Geoffrey of Monmouth

History of the Kings of Britain Nennius

French english literature of 11th-13th cc.

"chansons de geste" “Carolingian cycle” knight’s codex

Geoffrey Gaimar “History of Britts” “The History of Angles”

Henry II Plantagenet (1154 acc.the throne) Alienore of Aquitane troubadours minnesingers

Wace (died after 1174) Beneeit de Sainte Maure Marie de France Robert de Borron

“The Acts of Britts” (Geste de Bretuns) (Brut) – 1155

English literature of 11th-13th cc.

Poema Morale (manuscripts of the 13^th с.) catalectic tetrameter

The Ormulum Ancren Riwle ("Rules of anchoritesses") Brut The Owl and Nightingale

Virgin cult The Five Joys of the Virgin

a huge poetic encyclopaedia “World runner” (Cursor mundi) - I fourth 14^th c.

King Horn (about 1225) “The lay of Havelok” "Boeve de Haumtone"

“Guy of Warwick” “Amis and Amiloun” “Seven Sages of Rome”

“The Land of Cockaygne” Bestiary “Dame Siriz”