英国文学课后答案.doc

Chap1
1,give an account of the history of england from the Celtic settlement to the Norman Conquest.
1,600 BC ,Celts (tribal)(Britons is a branch of Celts) began to migrate to the British Isles
2,55 BC-407 AD,Julius Caesar invaded Britain, defeated Celts, and began nearly four centuries of Roman occupation
3,450 AD,The “Saxons”(the Teutonic or Germanic tribes of Angles, Saxons, Jutes) ( originally seafaring people along the coast of Denmark and Germany)came to the British Isles and drove the Celts to Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and settled down themselves and named the central part of the island “England”, became the masters of England and the ancestors of the English people.
4,Late 8-9th century,Viking(the Danes from Scandinavia ) invasions and be defeated by the Wessex King, Alfred the Great (849-c899)
5,1066,Norman Conquest (from Normandy in northern France) : William, Duke of Normandy, defeated Harold (the last Saxon king) and became the King of England.
2, how did e to England? Name the most important monasteries of this period.
It was in the year of 597 that Pope Gregory the Great of the Roman Catholic Church sent St. Augustine to England to convert the Anglo-Saxons. King Ethelbert of the Kent was the first to be converted and he founded in Kent the Canterbury Abbey. In the north, the earlier Christianized Ireland was engaged in sending missionaries to the Angles. The monasteries built by them in North Umbria were the earliest civilizing influences, and the well-known
North Umbria School in literary history refers to the learned monks in these monasteries. From Canterbury and North Umbria, Christianity spread throughout the country.
3. Analyze the artistic features of Beowulf, using the quoted passage to illustrate your points.
①he most noticeable artistic feature of Beowulf is alliteration.
②Another peculiar feature characteristic is the frequent use of kennings, to poetically present the meaning of one single word through pound simile of two