Identifier: shorthistoryofen00lars (find matches)
Title: A short history of England and the British Empire
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Larson, Laurence Marcellus, 1868-1938
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Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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post. This famous monkalso wrote the happenings of his own day; and his wordsbetray much indignation when he writes of the inroads of thealiens, whether churchmen or seculars. Matthew Paris con-demns abuses wherever he finds them, and in his criticism hespares neither king nor pope. 110. National Themes in Literature. The national ten-dency is also seen in the choice of literary themes, whether thewriting was in English or not. In the eleventh century a liter-ary revival had appeared on the Continent which The new liter-continued in the romances of the French trouba- fry movement in England anddours and the German minnesingers of the twelfth onthe Conti- century. The English literary movement of the nent- thirteenth century doubtless got its impulse from France and 126 THE BEGINNINGS OF NATIONALISM was, therefore, not wholly national. But it is to be noted thatsuch time-honored subjects as the Trojan war, the deeds of Alex-ander, Caesar, and Charlemagne were at this time beginning to
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A Monk in His Study give place to subjects that were English or at least British:King Arthur, Lancelot, Tristan and Iseult, the. Holy Grail, KingHorn, Havelock the Dane, Alfred the Great, and Richard theLion-heart became favorite subjects among the English roman-cers of the thirteenth century. Havelock the Dane and King THE UNIVERSITIES: OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE 127 Horn were probably Danish viking chiefs ; but the more im-portant of the themes mentioned were Celtic and belonged tothe Celtic lands of Wales and Cornwall. It was believed atone time that King Arthurs bones rested in a church atGlastonbury. According to legend Glastonbury was also theBritish home of the Holy Grail. -:m^ *fe#jj lf^ ESS**?; ,- 1! ■<*.; - - «;« Glastonbury Abbey Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea. King Arthur and Queen Guinevere aresaid to be buried in the Glastonbury cemetery. Saint Dunstan was one ofthe abbots of this abbey; the same honor is claimed for Saint Patrick. From a photograph by W. H. Dudley.

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