English Literature - Middle Age to 1800 By jeanadrien Period: 43 to 500 Roman invasion and occupation of Britain 449 Germanic invasions Displacement of native british (celtic) population Period: 450 to 1150 Old English Period 597 Christianisation of Britain and decreasing of the latin influence Period: 700 to 1000 Beowulf 1066 Norman Conquest of England Period: 1150 to 1500 Middle English Period 1370 Late 14th Centtury : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Period: 1382 to 1400 Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer 1400 Emerging of a "standard" English through the work of the Chancery scribes of London 1476 Introduction of printing in England by Caxton Period: 1500 to 1650 Renaissance 1516 The Utopia, Thomas More Written in Latin Period: 1558 to 1603 Elizabethan Era 1580 Old Arcadia, Philip Sidney 1590 New Arcadia, Philip Sidney 1592 Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe 1606 Volpone, Ben Jonson 1606 Macbeth, Shakespeare 1617 First translation of the Bible in English 1667 Paradise Lost (1st Version), John Milton Period: 1700 to 1800 Development of the Novel Period: 1700 to 1740 Augustan Age / Neoclassicism 1712 The Rape of the Lock (1st Version), Alexander Pope 1719 Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe 1726 Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift 1748 Clarissa, Samuel Richardson 1749 Tom Jones, Henry Fielding 1759 Tristam Shandy, Laurence Sterne