新学期の古英語の授業も少しずつ軌道に乗ってきた.時代背景を理解するために,この辺りでアングロサクソン時代の略年表を掲げたい.すでに「#2526. 古英語と中英語の文学史年表」 ([2016-03-27-1]),「#2871. 古英語期のスライド年表」 ([2017-03-07-1]),「#3193. 古英語期の主要な出来事の年表」 ([2018-01-23-1]) で類似の年表を掲げているが,バリエーションがあったほうがよいと考えているので今回は Godden and Lapidge (xii--xiii) からの略年表を再現する.
Chronological table of the Anglo-Saxon period
from c. 400 | Germanic peoples settle in Britain |
c. 540 | Gildas in De excidio Britanniae laments the effects of the Germanic settlements on the supine Britons |
597 | St Augustine arrives in Kent to convert the English |
616 | death of Æthelberht, king of Kent |
c. 625 | ship-burial at Sutton Hoo (mound 1) |
633 | death of Edwin, king of Northumbria |
635 | Bishop Aidan established in Lindisfarne |
642 | death of Oswald, king of Northumbria |
664 | Synod of Whitby |
669 | Archbishop Theodore and Abbot Hadrian arrive in Canterbury |
674 | monastery of Monkwearmouth founded |
682 | monastery of Jarrow founded |
687 | death of St Cuthbert |
689 | death of Cædwalla, king of Wessex |
690 | death of Archbishop Theodore |
c. 700 | 'Lindisfarne Gospels' written and decorated |
709 | deaths of Bishops Wilfrid and Aldhelm |
716--57 | Æthelbald king of Mercia |
731 | Bede completes his Ecclesiastical History |
735 | death of Bede |
754 | death of St Boniface, Anglo-Saxon missionary in Germany |
757--96 | Offa king of Mercia |
781 | Alcuin of York meets Charlemagne in Parma and thereafter leaves York for the Continent |
793 | Vikings attack Lindisfarne |
802--39 | Ecgberht king of Wessex |
804 | death of Alcuin |
839--56 | Æthelwulf king of Wessex |
869 | Vikings defeat and kill Edmund, king of East Anglia |
871--99 | Alfred the Great king of Wessex |
878 | Alfred defeats the Viking army at the battle of Edington, and the Vikings settle in East Anglia (879--80) |
899--924 | Edward the Elder king of Wessex |
924--39 | Athelstan king of Wessex and first king of All England |
937 | battle of Brunanburh: Athelstan defeats an alliance of Scots and Scandinavians |
957--75 | Edgar king of England |
859--88 | Dunstan archbishop at Canterbury |
963--84 | Æthelwold bishop at Winchester |
964 | secular clerics expelled from the Old Minster, Winchester, and replaced by monks |
971--92 | Oswald archbishop at York |
973 | King Edgar crowned at Bath |
978--1016 | Æthelred 'the Unready' king of England |
975--7 | Abbo of Fleury at Ramsey |
991 | battle of Maldon: the Vikings defeat an English army led by Byrhtnoth |
c. 1010 | death of Ælfric, abbot of Eynsham |
1011 | Byrhtferth's Enchiridion |
1013 | the English submit to Swein, king of Denmark |
1016--35 | Cnut king of England |
1023 | death of Wulfstan, archbishop of York |
1042--66 | Edward the Confessor king of England |
1066 | battle of Hastings: the English army led by Harold is defeated by the Norman army led by William the Conqueror |
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