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Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works.
The 12th century in Western Europe saw an increase in the production of Latin texts and a proliferation of literate clerics from the multiplying cathedral schools. At the same time, vernacular literatures ranging from Provençal to Icelandic embodied in lyric and romance the values and worldview of an increasingly self-conscious and prosperous ...
The English studies discipline involves the study, analysis, and exploration of English literature through texts. English studies include: The study of literature, especially novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. Although any English-language literature may be studied, the most commonly analyzed literature originates from Britain, the ...
The term Middle English literature refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the late 12th century until the 1470s. During this time the Chancery Standard , a form of London -based English, became widespread and the printing press regularized the language.
The Protection Force of Êzîdxan (HPÊ) [nb 1] (Kurdish: Hêza Parastina Êzîdxanê ,هێزی پاراستنی ئێزیدخان, [4] [5] Arabic: قوة حماية ايزيدخان [6]), is a Yazidi military force founded by Haydar Shesho in the summer of 2014 in respond to the Sinjar massacre. [7]
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:12th-century English women writers The contents of that subcategory can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it. Subcategories
Shota Rustaveli poet of the 12th century, author of "The Knight in the Panther's Skin" Chrétien de Troyes flourishes in the 1170s and 1180s; Marie de France flourishes from approximately 1170 through 1205/1210, author of lais in Anglo-Norman; Jean Bodel; Undated troubadors. Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s) Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s)
The opening of the Roman de Brut in Durham Cathedral MS C. iv. 27. This is the earliest manuscript of the poem, and dates from the late 12th century. The Brut or Roman de Brut (completed 1155) by the poet Wace is a loose and expanded translation in almost 15,000 lines of Norman-French verse of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain. [1]