English Anglo-Saxon tet
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- Druids
- priests that settled disputes among chieftains, presided over religious rituals, and reserved the people's myths about the past by reciting long, heroic poems
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Anglo Saxon arrival
(time period)
(who) -
Warriors from Denmark (s. angles, n. jutes), and Germany (saxons)
5th century - witan
- council of elders that elect the "king" og each clan
- earls
- hereditary class of warlorfs who owed position to king
- freemen
- allowed to own land and engage in commerce: thanes (barons)
- churls/serfs
- worked land in order for military protection
- thralls
- military prisoners or people being punished
- Comitatus
- system of reprocity establishing loyalty between a lord and his thane
- Anglo Saxon belief
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-pagan belief
-human life in hands of fate or Wyrd
-early anglo saxons worshipped Germanic gods - heroic poetry
- poetry recounting deeds of warriors
- elegiac poetry
- lamenting the deaths of loved ones and the loss of the past
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Christianity in Britain
(when introduced)
(who introduced it)
(what effects had on Anglo Saxons)
(by when most of people were Christian) -
-introduced in the 4th century by the ______Romans
-softened ferocity of warrior people
-improved conductof the faithful
-denounced revenge by calling upon
______higher law
-treated wives, children, and slaves ______better -
Christianity and Learning
-who wrote manuscripts
-who is the "father of english history"
-first enlgish poet
-has four surviving poems -
THE CHURCH BROUGHT EDUCATION AND WRITTEN LIT
-monks copied and illuminated manuscripts
-Vernerable Bede is the "father", a northumbrian monk
wrote "a history of the english church and people"
-Caedmon (7th century)
-Cynwolf (9th century) - Danelaw
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middle of 9th century
-N, E, C england fallen to invaders
called this territory "Danelaw" - Alfred the Great
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-got Wessex throne in 871
-resisted Danish encroachment
-encourgaed rebirth of education
-translated Bede's "history" and more to latin to make them more accesible to the people
-fostered growth of english and literature - 886
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truce concluded
-england formally divided
1. saxons acknoloedge danish rule in the E and N
2. Danes agree to respect Sason rule in S -
892-1150
-records kept here b/w these dates - "Anglo-Saxon Chronicle"
- Canute
- overthrew Wessex dynasty, establishing Danish rule
- Edward the Confessor
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1042, line of succesion returned to the descendant of Alfred the great: Edward the C.
-so named b/c was depply religious Christian - Sulton Hoo
- buried Viking ship filled with treasure