If you look at any of the fiction published in English during the Middle Ages, you’ll notice one (1) story come up again and again: the story of King Arthur.Every fucking story is about him, or his sword, or his round table, or Merlin, or Guinevere, or Gawain, or Lancelot, or the various multicolored knights.Were original ideas punished? Did medieval anglos lack the cognitive capacity to imagine more than one scenario? Or was it the case that people gave so little of a shit about entertainment that they were willing to hear and read the same one story over and over again for the whole of their miserable peasant lives?
>>18444604>medieval anglosShould we tell him?
>>18444604It wasn't just the same story. The beauty of the Arthurian canon was that there were tons of stories within the courtly setting.
worth noting it's not an anglo saxon legend, King Arthur fought AGAINST Saxons but it makes sense. Look at your average Nigel the Nigger, does he look like a sentient being capable of creation? England only became civilized after Normans came and replaced their "elites" with actual humans, then the land fluorished
>Why was a society conquered by the French influenced by French culture.Fucking genius thread OP.
>>18444625if the united states were conquered by spain, would ALL of our novels, movies, and games become derivatives of don quixote?
>>18444651hopefully
>>18444613>>18444625French "people" are hardly civilized. They practice adultery, screw kids, and eat food that rats eat.
>>18444613The surviving Anglo-Saxon texts absolutely mog anything from Normandy before 1066. if anything the conquest by a bunch of barely-Frenchified barbarians severely stunted the cultural growth of England
>>18444651no it would just be brown reggaeton/phonk bullshit like latinxistan
>>18444604You could have just said you don't know anything about medieval english literature if muh kang arrthurr is what comes to mind and not Chaucer or Langland
>>18444651>Why did a medieval society not have the same variety of entertainment as we do now.You may genuinely be retarded.
>>18444613Alcuin and Bede.
>>18444604Arthurian romances were popular all over Western Europe. One of the most well known is Parzifal, which was written in Germany. King Arthur and Roland were the two big chivalric heroes of Western Christendom in the Middle Ages.
>>18444611This. Each of the knights of the round table also had his own particular character traits and foibles that could serve as the basis for his own stories.
>>18444609I think we should But who wants to be the one to do the "talk"?
>>18444659The country of 'France' didn't exist at the time and the Normans were a group of Vikings that got their asses handed to them by Alfred the Great and so went off to settle softer lands.
>>18444604>Did medieval anglos lack the cognitive capacity to imagine more than one scenario?This is such an odd claim. The Arthurian Romances were widely worked and iterated on all over Europe - that and the Celtic origin of Arthur is what led Tolkein to try and create a British mythos in his Middle Earth. Most of the best Arthurian stories, including some of the oldest are not even English in origin. My favorite area French and German, but there are Spanish and Irish and, basically all of western Europe shared in this. I'm not Bri'ish but from the early Anglo-Saxon poets and epics like Beowulf to the Renaissance with Shakespeare, the English especially have one of the most diverse and accomplished literary histories of Europe. Genuinely some of the best poets of that whole era, my favorite poem of the whole ancient world is the Wanderer. Not even the most famous Arthurian tales are English. You're just Indian or from some other brown country that should be rangebanned. Not because you're brown but because you're genuinely too retarded to use Google for five minutes and see how asinine and aimless the thoughts you blurt out are.
>>18444809>Normans were a group of Vikings that got their asses handed to them by Alfred the Great and so went off to settle softer landsNormandy was founded over 20 years after Alfred died. Not even by the same group of Vikings.
>>18444819>medieval anglos aren’t boring because… anglos before and after them made more stuff!>also the main story attributed to them they didn’t even make!you’re not helping your case
>>18444604Arthurian legend wasn't exclusively English.
>>18444604Almost every medieval state had its own takes on the Arthurian mythos, pepitoReally need that rangeban on thirdies if they continue to shit up this board with /int/ tier gibbering
>>18444827Again, you're a moron. A few searches could save us both some time. >The middle ages were from the 5th-15th centuryThis includes all literature from Beowulf to just before the Renaissance. Bede, Chaucer and a hundred other poets and chroniclers would all fit within this era. Just look into it. By the era you seem interested in, after the Norman conquest, most English writers were writing in the French language because it was the language at court. But even many of the early Arthurian stories were also in French, like from actual French authors (frequently knights themselves). >also the main story attributed to them they didn’t even makeWhile Arthur is crucial to British identity it was never, ever considered some Anglo-Saxon ethno-LARP or their tale exclusively. If anything, Mordred and some of the baddies of the Arthurian cycle could be (and often were) placeholders for Germanic warlords or even Caesar, or some other group. The tales originally came from insular Celtic populations, and it became typical courtly fare basically anywhere and everywhere in western Europe.
Why are ESLs so retarded?>Matter of England, romances of English heroes and romances derived from English legend are terms that 20th-century scholars have given to a loose corpus of Medieval literature[1][2] that in general deals with the locations, characters and themes concerning England, English history, or English cultural mores. It shows some continuity between the poetry and myths of the pre-Norman or "Anglo-Saxon" era of English history as well as themes motifs and plots deriving from English folklore. The term Matter of England was coined in reference to the earlier Three Matters as termed by the French author Jean Bodel; the Matter of Britain (concerning King Arthur and his knights), of France (concerning Charlemagne and his paladins) and of Rome (retelling of tales from Greco-Roman antiquity).[1][2]>Pre-Norman: Robert Rouse considered the Matter of England to include only those romances that were set before the Norman conquest of England.[2][4]>Athelston>Bevis of Hampton>Guy of Warwick>Horn Childe or King Horn>The Man of Law's Tale>Other romances:>Fouke le Fitz Waryn>Gamelyn>Havelok the Dane>Richard coeur du lion>WaldefAnd that's ignoring the countless other medieval stories and ballads out there. Like Robin Hood. You autistic ESL Retard.
>>18444856>Fouke le Fitz WarynNow we're talkin' SOVL
the middle ages were the most boring fucking period of european historyancient rome is cooler and so is everything from the renaissance onwardmedieval europe had no culture, no literature, no art, no thinkers, and no science that rivaled anything that came before or afterno coincidence that this was the time period that had the higher percentage of christianschristianity really is just the white islam: all it does is flatten societies into one flat disease-ridden mold
>>18444874Rome is boring medjew globohomo bullshit
>>18444874>cultureyou gotta at least give them credit for musicall of our music notation originated from medieval churcheswe wouldn’t have beethoven, mozart, chopin, or the likes without hildegard von bingenduring the medieval period until the 13th century the most prosperous places were the arab world, india, and china>>18445014to me i am fascinated with the true dark ages (476-955) precisely because we know very little about that era
>>18445014never got into ancient rome either despite all the impressive things they didmaybe the romeaboo fanboys tainted everythingi’m more into ancient greece either way
>>18444874Emm excuse me, 500AD is not the Middle AgesKing Arthur lived during the Dark Ages, no the Middle Ages
>>18444609What are you saying?
>>18445025>dark ages>476-955too long
