A2 Timeline texts

By juliashlie
  • Period: 500 to

    The 7 kingdoms of the English

    During the next few centuries four dialects of English developed:
    Northumbrian in Northumbria
    Angles north of the Humber Mercian in the Kingdom of Mercia During the 7th and 8th centuries, Northumbria's culture dominated England and all the lowlands.
    ‘Middle’ Angles West Saxon in the Kingdom of Wessex
    The West Saxons,Kentish in Kent.
  • Jan 1, 600

    Church Latin Additions to English

    Germanic tribes from Engle, Jutland And Saxony were heatherns when they invaded the british Isles in the fifth century.
    200 years later the Anglo-Saxons wwere converted to christianity by the efforts of two different groups of missionaires. this resulted in TWO different forms of christianity in England.
    One mission- from Rome under the influence of the pope (southern england)
    Other mission- evangelists from Ireland. Early catholic church had survived.
  • Jan 1, 1000

    Beowulf

    Is an Old English poem, consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines.
    Possibly the oldest surviving long poem in Old English.
    The manuscript suffered damage from fire in 1731.
    It is a classic tale of triumph of good over evil. Divided neatly inot 3 acts.
    Set in the pagan world of sixth-century Scandinavia. also contains echoes of Christian tradition.
  • Jun 19, 1000

    Norman conquest of England

    Army of Norman, Breton and French soldiers led by Duke William II of normandy. later William the conquerer in 1066

  • Schism: the English stage and eccelestic revolution

  • The Lindisfarne Gosples- The Northern Dialect is used

    Tenth century- alfred's successors came to dominate the new population of Danes. due to the culture and languag of the Danes being similar to that of the Anglo-Saxons, the newcomers were gradually absorbed into the populations of the northeast and were Christianised.
    Learning English often came through contact with the church and the bible itsef.

  • Beginnings of the English Language

    English can be traced back to the arrival of three powerful Germanic tribes to the collapsing of the Roman colony of Britannia during the mid 5th Century.
    Romano Brython inhabitants at that time spoke in Brythonic. This language was quickly displaced along with the inhabitants.
    The Angles were named from Engle, land of origin. A west- germanic dialect was called Englisc- the word English derives.

  • Old English Translation of the Psalms by King Alfred

    Beginiing of the ninth century the northern and eastern parts of England were invaded by another Germanic people the Danes. They were a heathen people and did much harm to the monastries where the scriptures were copied.The Danes were at that time advancing thorugh Mercia, but towards the end of the ninth century the Anglo-Saxon armies finally stopped tem and held onto the south and west under the strong leaderhsip of king alfred the great.
  • Period: to

    Nordic fusion- The Viking gift to the English Language

    Vikings invasion of the 9th century brought this domination to an end. Only wessex remained as an independent Kingdom.
    10th Century- West Saxon dialect became the official language of England. Written old english is mainly known from this period.
    Written in an angular alphabet called Runic- a Germanic system of writing made up using only straight lines.
    Latin alphabet was later brought over from Ireland by Christian missionaries and this has remained the writing system of English.