The Anglo-Norman period

Discussion hints

1. The
   year 1066 was marked by the Norman conquest.

   
   

2. The
   Domesday Book is a gigantic survey of all the real estate, taxable
   property and population of England.

   
   

3. The
   Norman-French was the language spoken by the aristocracy and the
   Court during the Norman period.

   
   

4. English
   was spoken by the conquered people, who were generally illiterate.

   
   

5. The
   literature of early Medieval England was written in three languages:
   Latin, French and English.

   
   

6. The
   most important history of this period is the "History of the Kings
   of Britain" (Historia Regum Britanniae).

   
   

7. The
   most fascinating part of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History" is the
   one in which he tells a number of oral Celtic legends about King
   Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.

   
   

8. The
   matter of Britain is by far the largest and most popular. It
   includes stories about the adventures of King Arthur's Knights of
   the Round Table. Most of the Arthurian romances were written in
   French, but a few were translated into English.

   
   

9. Arthurian
   romances: Arthur and Merlin, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,
   Lancelot, Perceval, The Holy Grail, Sir Tristram.

   
   

10. Layamon,
    a priest of Worcester, wrote "The Brut".

    
    

11. No,
    it is a translation from French.

    
    

12. Orm
    or Ormin was another English writer of the 13^th
    century.

    
    

13. He
    wrote "Ormulum".

    
    

14. This
    book consists of a series of homilies.

    
    

15. Romance
    is a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was popular in
    the aristocratic circles of the Medieval period.

    
    

16. Romance
    is the equivalent of "romanzo" in Italian.