major invasions

anglo saxons:

romans:

church:

Normans:

- Germanic forced across the north sea by by the Huns invasion of Europe angles, saxons, and jutes invaded england in 449AD. 

-invaded Britain while the celts where residing there.

-when the Normans invaded England in 1066 they took control over the church and politics.

-invaded England in 1066 in what is called the Battle of hastings.

55BC

449

597

1066

410

43

- marked the entry of education and culture to Britain. the year Ceasar landed in Britain.

-the year the Germanic tribes crossed the north sea and invaded Britain.

-st. Augustine, missionary,

established monastery in Canterbury.

-roman Empire began to fail. the roman legions left Britain to defend Rome. Britain becomes easy prey to evaders.

-the romans conquered the Celtic tribes of s. Brittan and introduced a standard of living more advanced than any of the other Celtic tribes. 

chronological-time

cause &effect-how one determines another

cumulative- how important and familiar one is to the reader

 two or more words of a word groupwith the same letter, as in 

apt alliteration's artful aid.

heroes were predominantly passed down by word of mouth illustrates traits, performs deeds, 

and exemplifies certain

 morals that are valued by the society 

a common meter in poetry consisting of an

unrhymed line with 

five feet or accents, eachfoot 

containing an unaccented

 syllable and anaccented syllable

 secondary story or stories embedded 

in the main story.

a story in which several tales

 are related.

short tale originally incorporated by a medieval 

preacher into hissermon to emphasize a moral or

 illustrate a point of doctrine

a novel or other prose narrative depicting heroic or 

marvelous deeds, pageantry, romantic exploits, etc.,

 usually in ahistorical or imaginary setting.

the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule,

 or the like, in exposing,denouncing, 

or deriding vice, folly, etc.

an object, person, idea, etc, 

used in a literary work,

 film, etc,to stand for or suggest

 something else with which it is

associated either explicitly 

or in some more subtle way

a particular style or manner, as of writing 

or speech; to set the mood

a member of any of several aristocratic classes

 of men ranking between earls and ordinary freemen,

and granted lands by the king or by lords

 for military service.

the birth of english common law. list of rights and privileges that

 King John of England

 signed under pressure

 from English noblemen in 1215.

It established the principles that

 the king could not levy taxes without

 consent of his legislature, or parliment

 and that no free man in England could be 

deprived of liberty or property except 

through a trialor other legal process.

 was a series of separate

wars lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two

royal houses for the French throne

often been called the father of english poetry

influenced by 3 italian writers Petrarch, Dante, and Broccaccio 

the king owned all or most of the land and gave 

it to his leading nobles in return for their 

loyalty and military service. The nobles in turn 

held land that peasants ,including serfs, were 

allowed to farm in return for the peasants' labor

 and a portion of their produce.

extended his Anglo-French domains

 and instituted judicial and financial reforms. 

His attempts to control the church were 

opposed by Becket

archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to1170;

 murdered following his opposition to Henry II's 

attempts to control the clergy 

 adventurous expedition undertakenby a knight or 

knights to secure or achieve something

120 stories

30 pilgrims eash telling 4 stories

 a cultural movement of the Renaissance, 

based on classical studies of human

 fulfillment in the natural world and often 

rejects the importance of belief in god

Also called Invincible Armada. 

the fleet sentagainst England by Philip II of 

Spain in 1588. It was defeated by the English navy 

and later dispersed and wrecked by storms.

a medieval dramatic form based on a Biblical story,

 usually dealingwith the life, death, 

and resurrection of Christ.

it was the second permanent theatre ever built in

 england, after the red lion, and the first successful one. built by James Burbage