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The material explains their warrior and sea-faring character, limited formal education, and contrasts what they wrote—heroic poetry, elegies, Christian poetry, and prose. 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Formal education was also said to be missing.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What writings did the Anglo-Saxons produce?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"The text lists heroic poetry and elegies, then Christian poetry and prose. It also outlines specific examples of Christian poems and schools.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"Which manuscripts and works are highlighted in Anglo-Saxon literature?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"It names The Ecclesiastical History of English People by Venerable Bede and four major manuscript sources: Cotton Vitellius AXV, the Junius Manuscript, the Exeter Book, and the Vercelli Book. 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\n450 AD:Anglo-Saxon and Jutish  \ninvasions from North-WestGermany  \nOld English(Anglo-Saxon)Period  \n# What kind of people were the Anglo-Saxons?\n\nAnglo-Saxons were warriors and sea-farers.There were frequent fights between the tribes.There was very little time for literary pursuits.Formal education was missing.  \n## What did they write?\n\nHeroic PoetryElegies  \nChristian PoetryProse  \nOld English(Anglo-Saxon)Period  \nChristianisation of England  \n597 AD:Establishment of St Augustine's ChristianMission at Canterbury  \n# Important Features of Anglo Saxon Literature\n\n1.Responsiveness to nature  \n2.Strong religious conviction,  \n3.Belief in Wyrd,or Fate  \n4.Reverence for Womankind  \n5.Devotion to glory as a motive  \nThe Ecclesiastical History of English Peopleby Venerable Bede (731 AD)  \n30000 lines,4 manuscripts  \n1.MS Cotton Vitellius AXV (Contains Beowulf,Judith,and threeprose works)  \n2.The Junius Manuscript (Contains Genesis,Exodus,Daniel,andChrist and Satan)  \n3.The Exeter Book (Contains Christ,Juliana,The Wanderer,TheSeafarer,Widsith,Deor and many more short pieces)  \n4.The Vercelli Book (Contains Andreas,The Fates of the Apostles,The Dream of the Rood,Address of Soul to the Body and Elene)  \nBeowulf is an Old English epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legendconsisting of 3182 alliterative lines.It is one of the most important and most oftentranslated works of Old English literature.The date of composition is a matter ofcontention among scholars;the only certain dating is for the manuscript,whichwas produced between 975 and 1025.Scholars call the anonymous author the\"Beowulf poet\".  \nThe story is set in pagan Scandinavia in the 6th century.Beowulf,a hero of theGeats,comes to the aid of Hrothgar,the king of the Danes,whose mead hall inHeorot has been under attack by the monster Grendel.After Beowulf slays him,Grendel's mother attacks the hall and is then defeated.Victorious,Beowulf goeshome to Geatland(Götaland in modern Sweden)and becomes king of the Geats.Fifty years later,Beowulf defeats a dragon,but is mortally wounded in the battle.After his death,his attendants cremate his body and erect a tower on a headlandin his memory.  \n# Old English(Anglo-Saxon)Period\n\nHeroic/War Poetry  \nBeowulf  \nFight at Finnsburgh  \nWaldhere  \nThe Battle of Brunanburh  \nThe Battle of Maldon  \nElegies  \nDeor's LamentThe WandererThe SeafarerThe Wife's LamentThe Husband's MessageThe Ruin  \n# Old English(Anglo-Saxon)Period\n\nChristian Poems  \nCædmon was a monk attached to the Abbey of Whitby in the mid-seventh century.According to Bede,Caedmon was a herdsman andlay brother at Whitby,a monastery founded in 657 by St.Hilda.As alay brother,he did not have the responsibilities of a monk,butrather served the monks by tending their livestock.Several studiesalso report that Caedmon was illiterate and demonstrated noparticular talents.  \n# Old English(Anglo-Saxon)Period\n\nChristian Poems  \nCaedmonian School  \nCaedmon's hymn deals with the Story of Genesis.  \nPoems attributed to Caedmonian School are The Hymn ofCreation,Exodus,Daniel.  \nPoems are characterised by simplicity and an honest flow ofdiction.  \nCynewulfian School  \nCynewulf's poems are sophisticated.  \nPoems attributed to Cynewulfian School are The Christ,Juliana,The Fates of the Apostles,Elene.  \nTwo other poems The Phoenix and Judith are also supposedlycomposed by Cynewulfian School.  \n# Old English(Anglo-Saxon)Period\n\nAlfred  \nAelfric(Known for his Colloquy)Wulfstan  \nAlfred translated Cura Pastoralis,Bede's HistoriaEcclesiastica,The Consolation of Philosophy byBoethius,parts of St Augustine's Soliloquies.  \nDuring his time the great Anglo-Saxon Chronicle wasbegun.  \n# Anglo-Norman Period\n\nDescended from Norse Vikings,  \nsettled in the territory of Normandy in Francein the 10th and 11th centuries","cbCaifnZHn45GqnH","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifnZHn45GqnH","pdf",17530231,243,"English","# Old English 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