Middle english period (1000-1500 AC)

Facts

• The normands conquer Britain
• The lider of the Normand invasion was William the Conquer

Social concequences

• The influence of the germanic tribes desplacement by the french traditions
• Big migrations
• Christianism was imposed

Topics of the literatura

• Misoginy 
•  Ideal of virginity
•  Courthley love
• The mysterious pentagle

Genre

• Courthley love: No husband and wife relation at all
• Religious: christianism. Clergyment were the centre of intellectualism
•  Arthurian legends

Important changes and contributions

• New toipics
• Christianism
• Huge influence of Normand traditions and cultura
• Trillinguism (old english,latin, french)
• Contributions and changes in gramar estructure

Note: The most important author was Geoffrey Chaucer, Who wrote the Canterbury tales.

Anglo-Saxon period (5-6 B.C)

Is the term usually used to describe the invading Germanic tribes in the south and east of Great Britain from the early 5th century AD, and their creation of the English nation, to the norman conquest  of 1066. The Benedictine monk, Bede, writing three centuries later, identified them as the descendants of three Germanic tribes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxons.

Germanic tribes.

The Jutes:

• Lived were today  is Denmark.
• They were debonaire.
• They were the first that adopted Christianism.
• They were the first to stablish the funerary burials.
• They were the first to stablish partible Inheritance.

  The Angles:

• The strongest.
• They were knock of the perch by the vikings.
• They were Pagans.
• Came from Germany.

The Frisians:

• They came from Germany to England and arrived in Britan.
• They settled in Kent.
• They lived in Inconshires.
• They remained very importance until Charle Magne came to England.

The Saxons:

• They were fishermen.
• They used the seax(knife).
• They came from Germany to England.

The Celts:

• They had a rich and extensive Folklore.
• Their instruments were: the fiddle, the recorder and  the piano.
• They were tall, blond,(dye their hair)
• They were brave and corageous.
• They went naked and painted on blue to the battles.
• Their hair was shaggy as a horse maine.
• They were the first that used the Kilt. 

General  characteristics

• Four dialects were spoken: Northumbrian- Kentish-Wossex-Mercian
• Always in the search of fame
• They were always fighting
• They use the runic alphabet
• The Irish monks introduced the writting process
• Paganism was displaced by christianism
• Bards were highly apreciated