The Twelfth Century: NIVEL AVANZADO

1066: Battle of Hastings and Norman invasion. End of the Anglo-Saxon period.

 

12th c. literature in Britain


In Old English: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle




The evolution of the English language: From Old English to Middle English

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ADVANCED LEVEL:

Anglo-Norman Literature   


Geoffrey Gaimar, Estoire des Engleis. 1135-40.
Wace, Roman de Brut c. 1155.
Thomas. Le Roman de Tristan (Tristan et Yseut)
Marie de France. Lais. c. 1180.  (Lanval)
Richard Coeur de Lion
L'Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal c. 1220.
Jeu d'Adam (Play of Adam)

—and a lecture on The Anglo-Norman Period


  Anglo-Latin Literature

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae (The History of the Kings of Britain), c. 1136. (Source for the Arthurian legend)

William of Newburgh, Historia Rerum Anglicanum. (1198)
 
Richard of Devizes, De rebus gestis Ricardi Primi. c. 1190




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