Problem description:
Please recommend works, history, myths and legends and novels about the Middle Ages.
Analysis:
European literature in the early middle ages.
Christianity's monopoly on culture and education and its influence on literature. The basic content of church literature. The legend of heroes and heroic epic reflecting the end of clan society. The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf. Medieval European literature. Heroic epics and folk songs of major countries after the highly feudal period: Song of Roland, poema de mio cid, Song of Nybrann Root, Expedition of Igor and Ballad of Robin Hood. Knight literature. Knight lyric poetry and knight narrative poetry. Three systems of knight narrative poetry: ancient school, English school and Byzantine school.
The influence of knight narrative poems on later European literature.
Civic literature and civic drama. The emergence and development of civic literature, the content and satire of civic literature, verse stories and satirical narrative poems. The legend of lena fox. Story poem "The Legend of the Rose". The comedy Lawyer Bartland.
Dante
Life and creation. The ideological content of "New Life". Dante's patriotic political ideal opposes Pope's interference in politics and advocates the reunification of the motherland.
The Divine Comedy consists of three parts-hell, purgatory and heaven. The Divine Comedy criticized the dark forces of the Middle Ages. The ideological duality of Divine Comedy: the coexistence of medieval theological concepts and the germination of new ideas. The relationship between the ideological duality of divine comedy and the times. Artistic features of The Divine Comedy. Divine Comedy is a combination of philosophy and art of medieval culture and a "prelude" to modern European literature. Dante's position in the history of European literature.