According to the book The Norton Anthology English Literature, Anglo-Saxon literature occurred during ca. 673-735. A known novice named Bede who wrote poetry many Christian related poems. During this time the known language of the people was Latin with the predominant religion being Christianity, and growth of the English church (In-text cite). In knowing this, an assumption can be drawn to say that this was a very conservative period. I concluded to conservative because people who follow Christ tend to not be “loose” or, sin against God, so they try to portray perfection as much as possible. Continuing on, the novice Bede had a particular style of writing: Latin. According to Bede, his own poetry was difficult to translate to Old English because it does not convey the “texture and meaning” as it was originally. (In-text cite). Anyways, I found it interesting how poems were written like letters. This shows that style of writing during the Anglo-Saxon period, compared to present day, was old-fashioned. The article Court And Piety In Late Anglo-Saxon England discusses on the religious practices of the wealthy Anglo-Saxon men and women even concluding that they may not be “religious” according to the times standards. The article discusses on a distinction between secular and ecclesiastical (basically meaning non religious to religious). It says how ecclesiastical women decorated communion table, in churches, with bejeweled copes, and gold-threaded hangings which, by secular women, was recognized as the dragon’s dark den (In-text cite). Which shows that this time time period may have been conservative since beautifying churches would be considered wrong. In contradiction, the article goes on to …show more content…
Well, according to the article Embroidery for Clothing, the colors worn on one’s cloth indicated their social status. For example, if a women was classified as being lower class, then she would wear only wool, and would included browns, greys, pale yellows and more. If a women was of royalty, then she would wear colors such as reds and purples (IN-text cite). Also, people classified as royalty could wear all colors that lower, middle, and nobility class wore. It is significant that the men and women had to contrast arm, neck, and cuff pieces of their clothes. All in all, style of clothing depended on their social, or what they can and cannot