ENGLISH LITERATURE

The origins and development of the English Language.

At this time, after the arrival of the Angles, Saxons, Jute's and Frisians who began to occupy Britain, the development of the English language began.

Arrival of Saint Augustine in England, conversion of the English.

He was sent from Rome to England to bring Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons. Ultimately, he would become the first Archbishop of Canterbury, establish one of the most important abbeys in medieval England, and drive the conversion of the country to Christianity

Conversion of Saint Augustine.

Augustine was consecrated first archbishop of Canterbury.

England went with Rome

It was in the synod held in Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome

Ecclesiastical History of the English people

As Bede, the great historian of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons, put it:
"This dispute rightly began to trouble the minds and consciences of many people, who feared that they might have received the name of Christian in vain" (Bede, 730)

First king Ecgberht

Wessex, first king Ecgberht, who overthrew the Mercian king

Ælfric, the major writer of the Old English period.

Ælfric, the homilist and grammarian, went to the abbey of Cerne, where he became the major prose writer of the Old English period.

Manuscript of the Old English

The manuscript of the Old English epic Beowulf was written, the author is unknown.

Ælfric, representative writer was flourishing.

Ælfric, the most representative writer of the late tenth and early eleventh centuries, was flourishing.

King of England

In this year Canute became king of England.

The Death of Hardicanute'

The Danish dynasty ended with the death of King Hardicanute.

Edward the Confessor

Accession king of Edward the Confessor

Death king Eduard the confessor

Edward the Confessor died and was succeeded by Harold.

The battle of Hastings

The Franco-Norman army of Duke William II of Normandy clashed with the Anglo-Saxon army of King Harold II. It was the beginning of the Norman conquest of England

The Normans conquered England.

Finally, the Normans conquered England.

Death king Eduard

King Harold was killed in the battle of Hastings

King John lost Normandy to the French

Due to the difference in dialects between the Normans, who spoke a rural dialect of French with considerable Germanic influences, and the Paris Standard French of the time, King John of England lost the French part of Normandy to the King of France and England. became further isolated from mainland Europe

King Henry III first english proclamation

King Henry III issued the first English-language royal proclamation since the Conquest

The Hundred Years´ War

The Hundred Years’ War began and lasted until 1453

The Statute of Pleadings

The Statute of Pleadings was enacted, for Edw. III

King Henry IV

Henry IV used English to claim the throne

Deah of Geoffrey Chaucer

In December 1399 Chaucer leased a house in the garden of Westminster Abbey. But in October of the following year he died. He was buried in the Abbey, a noted honor for a commoner

The Chancery office

It produced all the charters and writs, which were all sealed with the Great Seal. The office was headed by the Chancellor of England, and was staffed by royal clerks

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The death of Arthur

In goals somewhere in England, compiles Morte d´Arthur- an English account of the French tales of king Arthur

William Caxton

William Caxton brought printing to England

Henry Tudor

Henry Tudor became king of England and introducing 118 years pf the Tudor Dynasty

John Cabot

John Cabot sailed to Nova Scotia, it helped lay the groundwork for the later British claim to Canada

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Erasmus and Thomas more

Taken the northern renaissance in the direction of Cristian humanist

Queen Isabel I

In a literary tradition notable for its demanding and brilliant achievements, the Elizabethan period represents one of the most brilliant centuries of all

The Courtier Sir Thomas Hoby

This is the definitive account of court life in the Renaissance. Because of this, it is considered one of the most important Renaissance works and Thomas Hoby was commissioned to translate it into English

The Defense of Poesie

Sir Philip Sidney, in England's first neoclassical literary treatise, The Defense of Poesie, frankly admitted that "the old song [i.e., the ballad] of Percy and Douglas"

The Faerie Queene

He celebrates the protestant Elisabeth I as the faerie Queene

Robert Greene

Composer of serious didactic works. Beginning with Greenes never too late, he related stories of prodigal sons, as well as drawing on his own experience, in Greenes' treatise worth groats of witte, bought with a million regrets

Venus and Adonis

The erotic poem was dedicated to Henry Wriostheley, the young Earl of Southampton, and in the epistle Shakespeare calls the poem the "first heir to my influence". William Caxton brought printing to England

Ovid's Banquet of Essence

Poetic hymn about the love of mortals for the goddess becomes a parable of wisdom and an orderly life

Homer translation

George Chapman's translations of Homer are the most famous in the English language

The Renaissanse English Period

The Neoclassical English Period

The Romantic English Period

The Vicorian English Period

The Edwardian English Period

The Edwardian English Period

The Georgian English Period

The Modern English Period

The Post-Modern English Period

The Contemporany English Period