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Middle Ages
Topic Started: Mar 8 2010, 01:20 PM (53 Views)
Shiloh
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The dates of the Middle Ages/Medieval period are widely contested. For the sake of this discussion, I'm going with the dates put forth in the Norton Anthology of English Literature: to 1485. This time period covers both the Anglo-Saxon period and the Middle English period.

Important Dates
43-c.420: Roman occupation of Britain

450: Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain begins

1066: Norman invasion of Britain
- language of law and nobility became French

1095-1221: Crusades

c.1200: literature appears in Middle English

1337-1453: Hundred Years' War

1348: first wave of Bubonic plague strikes

1362: English replaced French in English courts

1455-1485: Wars of the Roses

1476: Caxton sets up first printing press in England

1485: Tudor dynasty begins

Major Works/Authors (* indicates works/authors on the long list)
Beowulf* (c.1000)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
Marie de France*
Layamon (c.1200)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight* (c.1375-1400)
Pearl poet
Dante Alighieri
Chaucer*
Langland
York Play of the Crucifixion (c. 1425)
Margery Kempe
Second Shepherd's Play* (c.1450-75)
Sir Thomas Malory
Everyman* (c.1510)

Trends
Anglo-Saxon oral poetry
-conflicts between religion and heroic code
Anglo-Norman borrowing of Celtic legends/tales
Middle English alliterative revival (north/northwest dialects)
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