Test II Flashcards
409
Roman legions withdraw from Britain, waving Celtic peoples vulnerable to the attacks of the pcs and the scots
449
Celtic leader, VORTIGERN, arranges with Germanic tribes (picts and Scot’s?) to come to their defense in exchange for land
449-600
The angles, saxons, jutes turn on celts, drive them westward and settle in their land
449 and then some
Anglo Saxon invasion
560-616
Aethelberht, king of Kent, is the strongest ruler of southern britain
563
Irish missionary Columba founded monastery on the island of Iona and, with 12 disciples, begins to convert the picts
597
Pope Gregory sends Augustine to Kent, who is received by aethelberht, whose wife is the Frankish, christian’s bride bertha. Augustine is ordained the first Archbishop of Canterbury. Aethelberht converts within the first yer and, in seven yrs, all of Kent is Christianized
635
Aidan, monk from Scottish monastery of Iona undertakes reconversion (earlier by paulinus) of Northumbria, which is christianized in the next 20 years.
669
Beginning of establishment of school and monasteries and larger churches, Theodore and Hadrian at Canterbury, aldhelm at malmesbury, and bede at jarrow
695
Aldhelm, west Saxon abbot of malmsbury,the most learned teacher of the 7th century, a pioneer of Latin verse among the Saxons and also popular poet in the Anglo Saxon vernacular though none of his verse survives
731
Bede writes the Ecclesiastical History of the English people, introduces dating of events from the birth of Christ
782
Alcun of York, bede’s spiritual grandchild, called by Charlemagne to be head of Palace School at Achene, he was the moving spirit of the Carolignian renaissance; he established THE STUDY OF THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS Erich became the curriculum for medieval Europe, and encourage the preservation of ancient texts.
700-800
England holds the intellectual leadership of Europe
800
Cynewulf: Anglo Saxon poet , wrote 4 poems, each of centrally christian them: Julianna, Elene, Christ and the fates of the apostles. Other Anglo Saxon poems with such christian theme are Andreas, Judith, the poenix, Christ and satan
792-794
Danish raiders sack monasteries of lindesfarne and narrow. In the 9th century throughout Northumbria and Mercia churches lay in ruin.
850
Large danish armies begin attacks in earnest at Canterbury, London, east anglica. The period of the Scandinavian influence begins when large numbers of Danes come to settle in the areas of Merida and anglica
828
Egbert, king of Wessex, secures the submission of Kent, east Anglica, Mercia, and Northumbria, becomes first overlord of all the European peoples
839
Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, son of Egbert, and father of æthelbert king of Wessex won a notable victory over the Danes at Acela .
860
Ætherlbert, king of Wessex, son o æthelwulf. After his fathers death in 858, he rules Kent, surrey, Sussex, Essex, reuniting them with Wessex when in 860 he succeeded his bro æethelbald in that kingdom
865
Danish king at York in northumbria
878
Alfred the great repels danish invasion, signs treaty of wedge mere with guthrum, establishes DANELAW. Danes agree to accept Christianity. Begins to institute reforms. His greatest acheivments are the creation of a navy, the revival of learning among the clergy, the education of youths and nobles at court, the establishment of Old English literary prose his own English translation of Latin works, and his influence on the extant form of the Anglo-Saxon chronicle
880-1066 the danelaw
During the 9-10th centuries, the Danes hold sway north and east, and the English, south ad west of the danelaw. The Germanic people’s languages, differ principally in inflection and pronunciation. These, by course of nature, are leveled for ease of communication. During this period, the loss of inflection already long presses ing ie and perhaps particularly of the Germanic branch is significantly accelerated
900
Decline of monastic life, education is neglected, and learning decays
957
Dunstan: as bishop of Winchester (957) and Archbishop of Canterbury (959-978) a long with æthelwold at Winchester and Oswald at Worcester and York, effects Benedictine reform, revival of monasticism and the monastic life
980
Ælfric: Anglo Saxon propose writer of homilies, treatises, and law codes, advisor to aethelred, later to cnut; it is probably he who influences him to reign as christian king
1014
Cnut, svein’s so, drives æthelred into exile in Normandy and seizes the English throne. English will have a danish king until 1042
1042
Edward the confessor, son of æthelred, is crowned at Easter, following the death of the Dani’s cnut, he is helped to gain the throne by the powerful earl of Wessex, Godwin, whose daughter Edith is married to the king in 1045
1008
Wulfstan
1066
Norman conquest
