Choose one of the thirteenth-century literary forms discussed in the lesson "Thirteenth-Century Literature." Find more information about it in an encyclopedia or an anthology of medieval literature. Read some of the literature given for this form. Write a paper of at least 500 words describing how characteristics of the form are revealed in the literature you read.

Middle English writing of the thirteenth penny. proceeded in the convention of Anglo-Saxon writing—persuasive, educational, and coordinated toward customary individuals as opposed to amenable society. The Katherine Group (c.1200), containing three holy people's lives, is commonplace. The Ancren Riwle (c.1200) is a manual for forthcoming anchoresses; it was exceptionally famous, and it incredibly impacted the exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth penny. The way that there was no French writing custom was critical to the safeguarding of the English composition convention.

In the thirteenth century the sentiment , an essential mainland story section frame, was presented in England. It drew from three rich wellsprings of character and experience: the legends of Charlemagne, the legends of old Greece and Rome, and the British legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Layamon 's Brut , a late thirteenth century metrical sentiment (an interpretation from the French), denotes the principal appearance of Arthurian issue in English (see Arthurian legend). Unique English sentiments dependent on indigenous material incorporate King Horn and Havelok the Dane , both thirteenth century works that hold components of the Anglo-Saxon brave convention.