ENG 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cleanness

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 2105
• Professor: David Carlson

Document Summary

Duke of normandy before he was king of england. Conquers england, beheading the social pyramid, wiping out english speaking, stopping old language literary activity, replaces that activity with. For 250 years after the norman conquest, the dominant language in england was french: what literature was being written in this period, was french, some. Latin, during which there was no english literature: the dominant literary language was french. 1300 - population levels in england level out. 1400 had half as many people as it did in 1300. Late 14th century period: court cases became capable of being pleaded in england. Government business and laws were now done in english, and correlation between demographic disaster and the reemission of english linguistic existed. Most obscure poet of all late 14th century poets. We don"t know much about the poet. Responsible also for 3 other poems (patience, cleanness, pearl) Pearl protagonist needs to learn the virtue of patience.