The History of English literature

The Norman conquest made a break of studing and growing English and English literature. It Was on 11th century. The Anglo-Saxon English  (or also it called old English) Was Germanic speach with a special grammer and vocabulary.  During the time of Battle of Hastles there were two languages: French (norman) is the language for higher part of society and English is for lower part. In the middle of 14th century there was “king's language” with grammarless and French equivalents. It s had introduced a legal terms, like lady's dresses. Knights has used vocabulary of war. Builders have used words of technical expressions. There were created words of Arts of cooking, name of animals(beef, ow, sheep e.t.c), name of “religious people” and sciencies. The translators of french poems found an easier way of translating: they did't find any synonims, but they only changed the place of a word. A big part of English words has chanched because of spelling. In these years there was very famous person- Chaucer, he was in middle way of knowing and prounanciation betweeb king Alfread and modern one. Aglo-Saxon Washington a dead language, but it changed to Wessex dialect. It was created in East Midland, but uased in Cambridge. There were cosmopoliran people and the connected with people from continent. They introduced lots of things, like scholastic philosophy In 14th century the most part of English was in Latin, but literature in French. In 16th century there was an allternative verse of English. The Anglo-Saxon poetry was ritmicall and allternative. Chaucer talked this allernative English, but with parts of French and Italian.