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Time era that Beowulf wrote in
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Time Span ~ History of the English Language
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Duke of Normandy invaded and conquered England ~ the conquerors were the Normans and the language was a kind of French. There was a linguistic class division~ upper class spoke French and the lower class spoke English.
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Era that Chaucer wrote in ~ 1340 -1400
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Era that Hamlet wrote in. Renaissance of Classical Learning. Printing also created a common language and books became cheaper and more people learned to read.
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Standardization of English, spelling and grammar became fixed ~ biggest thing was VOCABULARY. Late Modern English there were many more words because of the Industrial Revolution and Technology.