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6 . What was the most important work written by Bede?
7. What was Alfred the Great famous, for?
8 . What did the literature of the early Middle Ages and the church teach?
UNIT 2
MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE (1100-1485)


The Literature of the Norman Period (12,h - 13th centuries).


When King Alfred died, the account of the wars with the Danes showed how many suffered in that age, how bitter, insecure and cruel life was. Parties oftheNorthmen sailed rouiid Scotland and over to Ireland. Others sailed south across the channel i:o France. They conquered the north of France and settled there. In the next hundred years they came to be called Normans, and their country Normandy.
In the middle o f the 11thcentury the internal feuds among the
Anglo-Saxon earls weakened the country. The Normals did not miss their chance and in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the English troops at Hastings in a great battle. Within five years William the Conqueror became a complete master of the whole England.
The lands of most of the Anglo-Saxon aristocracy were given to the Norman barons, and they introduced their feudal laws to compel the peasants to work for them. The English became an oppressed nation.
William the Conqueror could not speak a word of English. He and his barons spoke the Norman dialect of the French language; but the Anglo-Saxon dialect was not suppressed. During the following 200 years communication went on in three Ianguages:


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