Momento Mori

Medieval

English

Literature

Julius Ceasar54 BC

Claudius43 AD

Londiniumfounded in 50 AD

Hadrian’s Wall122 AD

Honorius410 AD

Great migration of the peoples4th and 5th century

Viking raids from 793 AD

Viking territory

Alfred the Great -871 – 899 ADBattle of Edington 878 AD

Alfred the Great – Warrior and Scholar

William the Conqueror1028 – 1087 AD

Battle of Hastings - 1066

Bayeux Tapestry

Richard I “Lion Heart” (1157 – 1199 AD)Crusades 1190 AD

King John 1 accepts Magna Carta

10 June 1615

Magna Carta1215 AD

Black Death in Europe

Elizabeth I1533 - 1603

Henry VIII1491 - 1547

surrounded by his six wives

BEOWULF

Hebban olla vogala nestas hagunnam hinase hic enda

thu wat unbidan nu12th century

Beowulf6th century

Hrothgar’s mead hall

Beowulf rips off Grendel’s arm

EverymanJedermannElckerlyc

Death summons Everyman

Everyman dies

Purgatory

Pageant wagon

Coventry mystery

Canterbury

Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Pilgrims

Thomas Beckett1118 – 1170 AD

Murder of Beckett29 December, 1170 AD

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

First page ofmanuscript

Green Knight puts head back

Lady Bercilak tempts Sir Gawain

Tolkien’s translation

Le Morte d’Arthur

Sir Thomas Mallory

King Arthur

The Knights of the Round Table

Excalibur?

Holy Grail

King Arthur dies,

but the legend lives on.

King Arthur, 2004

ROBIN HOOD

Grave of Robin Hood at Kirklees

Olivia de Havilland andErrol Flynn

Here the ppp ends

and

your work starts

Momento Mori – Medieval English Literature

Beowulf•Epic poem•Beowulf fights Grendel•Beowulf’s death

Everyman•Allegory•Morality play

Canterbury Tales•Frame story•Prologue and Wife of Bath’s Tale/Knight’s Tale

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight•Chivalry•Visit of Green Knight•Tests of Sir Gawain

Le Morte d’Arthur•Legend•Prologue•One of the books/stories

Robin Hood•Ballad•Main characters

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