ENGL 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Suger, Early Modern English, Wyrd
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Deus ex machina = god out of the machine wyrd = modern weird . 449 a. d - 1066 a. d (our course timeline) Celtic original population, then came the romans (0), and then the germanic tribes (449), then the norman conquest (1066) So we"re looking at literature between the germanic tribe conquest and the norman conquest. 1100-1500, we have something called middle english literature. Anglo-saxon is restricted to use to describe ethnic people. Medieval people had no idea that they were living in the middle ages. Modern people know that they are living in the modern period. Historically speaking, the term modern has older roots than medieval . Abbot suger, around 1100, refers to his time as modern compared to the ancient greeks and. Centuries later during the renaissance, the term medieval was coined. Medieval was invented from the term modern which came from antiquity (ancient greeks and. It is not nearly as glorious as the age of antiquity.
