By Andrew Galloway

Continuum's Introductions to British Literature and tradition sequence supply functional publications to key literary classes. publications within the sequence aid to orientate scholars as they start a brand new module or quarter of analysis, delivering concise details at the old, cultural, literary and important context and appearing as an preliminary map of the data had to learn the literature and tradition of a particular interval. each one consultant comprises an summary of the historic interval, highbrow contexts, significant genres, severe ways and a consultant to unique examine and source fabrics within the zone, allowing scholars to growth optimistically to extra learn. The consultant to Medieval Literature and tradition presents scholars with the proper advent to literature and its context from the seventh to fifteenth centuries, together with: - the historic, cultural and highbrow history together with faith and philosophy; society and politics; artwork and tradition - significant works and genres together with non secular literature; heritage writing; drama; Chaucer; Langland - concise reasons of key words had to comprehend the literature and feedback - key serious techniques to medieval literature from the Renaissance to the current - a chronology mapping old occasions and literary works and additional interpreting together with web content and digital resources.

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This outlook implied an essential sense of faith in Platonic higher realities and, in turn, as it was readily sustained in the seventh through eleventh centuries in the monasteries (the centers of learning in England as elsewhere in that period), it became correlated to the monastic principle of obedience to authority. Beginning in the mid-twelfth century, however, as intellectual activity began to shift to cathedral schools such as Chartres and Orleans, then universities such as Oxford and Paris, an interest in exploring pagan writers in their own terms appears.

50 MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND CULTURE The same work can appear in very different settings, often implying different kinds of emphasis or indeed of genre - as, for instance, religious instruction or historical information or less purposefully defined entertainment This is not to deny that the crafting and re-crafting, combining or expanding, of narrative materials, styles and forms can be brilliantly and imaginatively original, or that individual writers or groups of writers can mark major shifts in literary developments.

To summarize 80 per cent of the population at a stroke would risk similarly reductive caricatures. But we may say in a general way that peasants carried out hard physical work and lived in humble 'vills', that is, sets of houses often near a village church and, usually, near a single manor house belonging to the owner of the local property and perhaps of many other manor houses like it. This might be either a secular lord, who would likely endeavor to keep the property in the family or add to it by strategic marriages, or a religious institution.

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