HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE By facebooker_2735521373124900 Period: 450 to 1066 1st PERIOD-OLD ENGLISH 450- 1066 731 The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people 800 Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons