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Jan 1, 1100
Middle English (Medival)
(1100-1500)
The event that began the transition between Old and Middle English was the Norman conquest
The Anglo Norman French became the language of the kings and nobility of England for more than 300 years
During the Norman ruled centuries, English as a language had no official status or regulation, it was the third language in its country.
"Roman de la Rose" by Geoffrey Chaucer
"The Boke of Margery Kempe" by Margery Kempe
"Le More d"Arthur" by Sir Tomas Mallory -
Jan 1, 1300
Renaissance
(1300-1700)
A rebirth of arts and literature
In 1611 the King James Bible was printed
It was ther period of awakening the Dark Ages. The belief that humanity was making progress to noble summit of perfect exsistence.
"Utopia" by Tomas Mone
"Paradise Lost" by John Milton
"Faerie Queen" by Edmund Spenser -
Neo-Classicism
After the religious Puritan revolution, most Britons wer terrified of another religious government takeover .
James the second imposed Catholic Tolerance and Ministers in England and was imported by the government.
The Neo-Classicism period was a time of comfort in England, having good manners and doing the right thing was essential. the middle class were literate because of this.
"Sense & Sensibility" by Jane Austen
"The Holy War" by John Bunyan
"The Ladys Dressing Room" by Jonathan Swift -
Romanticism
1820 was the start of the Trial of Queen Caroline.
1823 was when the Monroe Doctrine was enunciated in America.
The Romanticism period was the artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originjated from Europe. This literature has more to do with the individual than the society.
"The Hunchback of Norte Dame" by Victor Hugo
"Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley
"Pride & Prejudice" by Jane Austen -
Victorian
(1837-1901)
1837 is when Queen Victoria began her reign
1901 is when the Victorian Period ends after Queen Victorias death.
During the Victorian period the novel became popular. The style of writing was varied but most texts reflected the conservative social values and norms of the time.
"Pickwick Papers" by Charles Dickens
"Vanity Fair" by William Thackeray
"Under the Greenwood Tree" by Thomas Hardy -
Modern
(1901-2000)
1939 Sigmund Freud theory
Friedrich Nietzsche's idea of psychological drives.
Modernism was believing in a utopían spirit, stimulated by innovations in sciences.
"Petersberg" by Andrei Bely
"Anna Christe" by Eugene O'Neill
"Zeno's Conscience" by Italo Svevo -
Post Modern
(1950s)
Influence genocide that occured in the second world war.
Mass destruction that was caused by the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima & Nagasaki
A time during the Cold War and excsses of construction. This period blurs the boundary between high and low culture
"Opera Aperta" by Umberto Eco
ltimo viene il curvo" Italo Calvino
"The Little Fire Engine" by Graham Greene -
Contemporary
(2000-Present)
"House of Spirits" by Isabel Allende
"The Corrections" by Jonathan Franzen
"First Love, Last Rites" by Ian McEwan -
Old English or Anglo-Saxon Period
(449-1066)
St.Augustine and his 40 missionaries from Rome brought Christianity to the pagan Anglo-Saxons of the rest of England in 597 A.D
In the 7th century Old English flowered after Augustine's arrival in North-Eastern Northumbria which revealed England's 1st great poet Caedmon
During the Old English/Anglo-Saxon Period the peices consists of sermons and saints lives and biblical translations
"Caedmon's Hymn" by Caedmon
"Beowulf" by Anonymous
"Fates of the Apostles" by Cynewulf -
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