English 2310: Terminology

criticism (e.g., formalist, cultural, psychological, Marxist, cultural, historical, new historical, reader-response, deconstructionist)

interpretive communities

hermeneutics and literary theory

Paleolithic

Neolithic

Indo-European

Britons, Scots, Picts

“Brittonic” and “Goidelic” Celts

runes

OE c. 700-1066

ME 1066-c. 1500

ModE c. 1550-present

55 B.C.

Julius Caesar

Claudius, 43 A.D.

Tacitus' Germania, 97 A.D.

Hadrian’s Wall, 121-7A.D.

Anglii, Englisc, comitatus, wergild

Angles, Saxons, Jutes

Constantine, c. 300 A.D.

409 A.D.

Honorius

Vortigern

Hengest and Horsa

449 A.D.

Frisia

Saxony

Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

Artur

597

St. Augustine

Pope Gregory I

Bede

Wearmouth-Jarrow

Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731)

Caedmon

Alcuin

Charlemagne

Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy

Lindisfarne

Alfred the Great

Cnut

1016

1066, William the Conqueror

Normandy

Battle of Hastings

Aethelred the Unready

Declensions of OE nouns:

Singular N stan (stone) giefu (gift)

G stanes giefe

D stane giefe

A stan giefe

Plural N stanes giefa

G stana giefa

D stanum giefum

A stanes giefa

oral poetry

alliterative verse

caesura

vowel shift