ENGL 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Jutes, West Saxon Dialect, English Poetry

• School: McGill University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 202
• Professor: Maggie Kilgour

Document Summary

Angle-saxon occupation extended over decades of fighting native britons: britons finally confined to wales. Britons had become christians in the 4th c. after the conversion of emperor constantine / most of the roman empire: only endured in the more remote regions after anglo saxon invasion, as as were pagans. Year 597: a benedictine monk (after st. augustine of canterbury) was sent by pope gregory as a missionary to king ethelbert of kent (around same time missionaries from ireland began to preach christianity in the. Within 75 years island was again predominately christian. In the following centuries produced distinguished churchmen: bede. Wrote ecclesiastical history of the english people. Tells the story of the conversion and the english church, completed in. Assisted in making frankish court source of learning (735-804), friend and adviser of frankish emperor charlemagne. 9th c: christian anglo-saxons subjected to new germanic invasions by the danes.