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Medieval EnglandPgs. 4 – 12

What would a scholar know?

(probably more than this)

First, Modern America

• Imagine the history and literature scholars in the year 4011 AD. (If there are any) When they study “our times” what will they take note of? What events will appear in a teacher’s lectures/notes introducing that unit? List some now.

Period 3• 9/11

• Barack Obama

• National debt

• Osama Bin Laden’s death

• Steve Jobs

• Degradation of youth

• Occupy Wall Street

• Technological takeover

• Prediction of the end of the World

Period 7

•Space Exploration•Barack Obama•Medical Advancements•Technology Boom•Housing Crisis•9/11•Rise and fall of Communism•Job Crisis / Recession•Weapons•Population Boom

•WW2

•Immigration

Period 1

• 9/11• Obama-first black president• Current literature/entertainment/music• Status of tech./Med./Space Exploration• Violence• War• Hurricane Katrina• Energy• Economy• Political Change?• Food Consumption• Nuclear Bomb

Anglo – Saxon England

• 800 – 600 B.C. Celts – Brythons/Gaels 1• Druids 2• 55 BC – Romans 3• 300 years of Roman rule• 407 4• Columba 5• 597 – St. Augustine 6• King Ethelbert converted 7• Vikings 8• 871 - Alfred the Great 9,10 (3 major contributions!)• Danelaw 11• 1042 Edward the Confessor

Medieval England

• 1066 The B of H 12• Harold II• William the Conqueror 13• Feudalism – Barons/Vassals/Serfs & Manors• 1154 Henry Plantagenet 14• Beckett – 1170 “Whoops! Sorry.” 15• Pilgrimage • Richard I• King John 16• Magna Carta 17

More Medieval Times

• 1399 House of Lancaster

• Henry IV, V,VI

• House of York

• Wars of the Roses 18

• Marriage unifies Yorks and Lancasters

• Black Death 1348 – 1349 19

• 1381 serf revolt 20

Literature of the PeriodAnglo - Saxon

• Oral Tradition• Heroic poetry• Elegiac poetry• Beowulf• Vernacular• History of the English Church and People 21• Bede 22• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 23

Quiz – Anglo-Saxon Medieval England (pgs. 4 – 12)

• Part I – People (10 Matching) A. Brythons thru L. Celts10 descriptions (2 not used)Part II – Short Answers- Forces for “change” during era- Becoming a “civilized” society ; the process- Part III – Terms (10 Matching) A. Feudalism thru N. Magna Casta10 descriptions (3 not used)

Medieval Literature

• Chaucer• Canterbury Tales• Gutenberg 24• Caxton 24• Romances• King Arthur• Thomas Malory• Lyre – lyric poetry• ballads

Major events of Anglo-Saxon/Medieval England

-black plague

-conversion of England to Christianity

-start of Feudalism

-Magna Carta

-Gutenberg’s printing press

-serf revolt

-Roman invasion, Danish invasion, Anglo-Saxon invasion, Norman conquest