第二章 中世纪文学概述_001（The second chapter is an overview of medieval literature _001）.doc

第二章 中世纪文学概述_001（The second chapter is an overview of medieval literature _001） The second chapter, medieval literature Key learning: learning this chapter, attention should be paid to the development of history recognize medieval literature, not to simply reject the attitude to understand the ancient literature in Europe, the new quality and a broad perspective to understand the influence of the culture of medieval literature, in the later European literature and culture development: respect reason, group based, self sacrifice and patient advocates who love this sense religion. We should also know that Christianity is the core of medieval consciousness and the creation of four styles of medieval literature. In medieval writers, the most important is Dante, the Italy poet of Dante, we should understand the middle ages as the last poet, a new era of the first poet of the feature of duality and representative works of the Divine Comedy the basic ideological content and artistic features. The first section is an overview The Middle Ages in European history generally refer to the history of the end of the western Rome empire from 476 ad to the end of the British bourgeois revolution in 1640, about 12 centuries. The history of the past one thousand years can be divided into three periods corresponding to the formation, prosperity and decline of the feudal system. As far as the history of literature is concerned, medieval literature mainly refers to the first two stages, namely, from the fifth Century to the fourteenth Century when the Renaissance started. Literature from fourteenth Century to sixteenth Century is called Renaissance literature. Western scholars have a traditional understanding of medieval before nineteenth Century, that the medieval theocracy, economic stagnation, social chaos, in a dark period between ancient Greece and Rome culture and the Renaissance two splendid culture, and the Medieval Western literature are often considered to be ignorant and backw