欧洲文化入门名词解释总结

名词解释

1. Carolingian Renaissance

Carolingian Renaissance is derived from Charlemagne s name in Latin， Carolus. The most interesting facet (一面) of this rather minor renaissance is the spectacle (有见解) of Frankish or Germanic state reaching out to assimilate (吸收) the riches of the Roman Classical and the Christianized Hebraic culture.

2. Roger Bacon‘s work was the Opus maius.

3.National Epics(民族史诗运动)名词解释

The epic was the product of the Heroic Age. It was an important and mostly used form in ancient literature. “National epic” refers to the epic written in vernacular languages—that is， the languages of various national states (民族国家) that came into being in the Middle Ages. Literary works were no longer all written in Latin. It was the starting point of a gradual transition of European literature from Latin culture to a culture that was the combination of a variety of national characteristics.

4.Chaucer (乔叟) 的诗歌特点：

① power of observation (观察)

② piercing irony (敏锐的讽刺)

③ sense of humor ④ warm humanity (温暖的人性)