Essays on Anglo Saxon

The mislaid portion that has been principally disregarded, perhaps more through intellectual neglect than through physical damage, is the place of womenfolk within the poem. The trope of the female gallant in Anglo-Saxon literature has converted even rarer than the document that contained its tradition....

Can fictional works truly reflect the societies and cultures in which they were written? In other words, do fictional stories hold bits and pieces of the actual realities that they were written in? For example, when reading the many classic works of William Shakespeare, arguably...

Epic is a term that is associated with history. Epic films are historical films of all kinds, particularly those that deal with events that are national or even global. Among one of the oldest film genres is this epic. It was extensively used in the...

Women have always played a significant role not only when it comes to looking from a historical perspective, but also literature. During Anglo-Saxon period feminism was a non-existent phenomenon, while the man became the main protagonist of most literary works. Starting from „Beowulf”written by an...