ENGH 421 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Danelaw, Latin, Jutes
30 Aug 2017
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Benedictine monk: focus on learning/writing and reading books. Quotes a lot of authors which helps historians fixate on what books were being read during his era. Norman and english, most likely his mother was english and his father was norman. He turned down a promotion and continued being a librarian: the history of english kings. What distinguishes the form of this work: time progression: william jumps around, mentions events but says he will come. Romans invade and take over (scotland, welsh, england) and the roman culture and. Latin language begin altering the welsh (the romans live amongst the welsh) Power consolidation: conquering other kingdoms, imposing your laws, breaking down borders: eventually all these different kingdoms consolidate and form the wessex. Vikings come next and they speak icelandic (old norse: the vikings establish a kingdom of their own up north, called the danelaw (being under danish law, danish king eventually becomes in charge of england.
