literature By lucrezias Period: 700 to 1100 Old English Period: 1100 to 1450 Middle English Period: 1215 to 1485 Late Medieval Society Period: 1337 to 1453 Hundred Years War 1340 Sluys 1346 Crecy 1348 Black Death 1356 Poitiers Battle 1377 poll tax 1381 Peasants'Revol 1382 Translation of the Bible into English Period: 1386 to 1400 The Canterbury Tales 1450 Modern English Period: 1455 to 1485 Wars of the Roses 1485 Henry Tudor & Elizabeth of York marriage Period: 1485 to 1509 King Henry VII Reign 1492 the discovery of America 1509 Henry VIII's Reign