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The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people
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the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
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The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
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Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce
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William of Ockham advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor
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A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman
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The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur
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Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy
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Marlowe and Shakespeare are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months
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William Shakespeare dies at New Place, his home in Stratford-upon-Avon, and is buried in Holy Trinity Church
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John Locke publishes his Essay concerning Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience
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A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias
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Joseph Conrad publishes his novel Lord Jim about a life of failure and redemption in the far East
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was the public prosecution in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books under the Obscene Publications Act 1959[b] for the publication of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. The trial took place over six days, in No 1 court of the Old Bailey, between 20 October and 2 November 1960 with Mervyn Griffith-Jones[c] prosecuting, Gerald Gardiner counsel for the defence[d] and Laurence Byrne presiding.
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It is a British fantasy television series based on the series of novels of the same name by Philip Pullman. It is produced by New Line Cinema and Jane Tranter and Julie Gardner of Bad Wolf for BBC One and HBO, the latter being in charge of its international distribution
