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Replacing the native English nobility
with Anglo-Normans and introducing Norman French as the language of
government in England. -
beginning the loosening of ties
between England and the Continent. -
issued the first English-language royal proclamation
since the Conquest, having been forced by his barons to accept the Provisions
of Oxford, establishing a Privy Council to oversee the administration of the
government, so beginning the growth of the English constitution and
parliament -
Was gradually lost in the North in the course of the thirteenth century.
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began
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The Black Death killed an estimated one-third of England’s population and continued to plague the country for much of the rest of the century.
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requiring all court proceedings to
be conducted in English. -
he Peasants’ Revolt led by Wat Tyler was the first rebellion of
working-class people against their exploitation. Although it failed in most of its
immediate aims, it marks the beginning of popular protest. -
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Ivused English to claim the throne
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having produced a highly influential body of
English poetry. -
Public documents and records began to be written in English
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Began recordkeeping in a form of East Midland English, which became the written standard
of English. -
thus promoting literacy
throughout the population. -
foreshadowing English territorial
expansion overseas. -
ending thirty years of civil strife,
called the War of the Roses, and introducing 118 years of the Tudor dynasty. -
Was retained in ed until the fifteenth century change it
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Brothers wrote in the dialect of their native regions
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diphthongs were smoothed into middle English monophthongs.
