Medieval Age or Middle Ages Anglo-Saxon (German) or Old English Period (500AD Celticinvasion– 1066AD Norman Conquest) Cademon -Cademon’s Hymn (Approx. Between 658/680) Bade- Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Approx. 731) Cynewulf- The Fate of Apostles, Elene, Juliana, Christ (Cynewulf’s time is unconfirmed 8thor 10th century Approx.) King Alfred (871–899)- Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. Anglo Norman (French) (1066-1154/1166) & Middle English Period (1500) Geoffrey of Monmouth -Historia Regum Britanniae or The History of Kings of Britain (1136) Wace -Roman De Brut (Written in 1155 and Published 1836) Layamon- Layamon’s Brut (1200 Approx.) Pearl Poet or Gawain Poet –Pearl, Patience, Purity, Sir Gawain and Green Knight (Late 14thCentury) Important works from Old English by some unknown authors Beowulf (975–1010), Waldere- It is about Legend of Walter of Aquitaine (Unknown), Fight at Finnsburg or Finnsburg Fragment.(Unknown), Widsith or The Traveller's Song, Wanderer - Lyrical Poem (Unknown), Sea Fearer - Lyrical Poem, Wife’s Lament, Deor’s Lament, Husband’s Message, Chansons De Geste (Unknown), Ancrene Riwle or Rules of Ancresses (Unknown), Dream of the Rood - Religious Poem (7000- 8000Approx), Cursor Mundi - Religious Poem, The Owl and the Nightingale (1100-1200 Approx.), Everyman - Miracle Play (1510), The Second Shepherd’s Play – Mystery Play (1500Approx.)
Age of Renaissance 1300-1600) Age of Chaucer (1343 – 1450) The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Afro-Eurasia from 1346 to 1353. It is the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa, peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. First book published in England by William Caxton - The Recuyell of the Histories of Troye translation of A French Romance by Raoul Lefevre (1473) Geoffrey Chaucer -The Book of the Duchess or The Death of Blanche (1368), Anelida and Arcite (1370 Approx.), Troilus and Criseyde (1380), The Legend of Good Women (1380), The Parliament of Fowls (1382), The House of Fame (1374-1385),Canterbury Tales (1395) , A Prayer to Virgin, The Romaunt of the Rose- Roman de la Rose by Guillaume De Lorris’ - Translation by Chaucer(1532), The Story of Griselda, At Treatise on the Astrolabe William Langland - Piers the Plowman (1378) John Gower -Speculum Meditantis, Mirror De I’omme or Speculum Hominis - Describes the development of sins, vices and virtues and it specially appeals to Virgin Mary (C. 1338), Vox Clamantis: The voice of one crying out (1338 Approx.), Confessio Amantis (1389) John Wycliffe –First Translation of Bible (1382-1395) John Mandeville- Travels of Sir John Mandeville (1356) Thomas Hoccleve -Letter of Cupid (1402), La Male Regle - The Male Regimen - De Regimine Principum or Regiment of Princes , The Plowman's Tale, Hoccleve’s Complaint, Mala Regle, Complaint of Our Lady John Lydgate -The Troy Book (1412-20), The Fall of Princes (1418 Approx.), Reason and Sensuality (Unknown),Serpent of Division (1422) , The Siege of Thebes (1420-22), The Complainant of The Black Knight (1508), The Temple of Glass, London Lickpenny
John Skelton -The Book of Colin Clout (1522) , Dirge on Edward IV, Garland of Laurell, Magnificence, Why Come Ye Not to the court (1522), The Book of Philip Sparrow, The turning of Elvnor Rumpiynge, Bowge of Court, Ballad of Scottishe Kyne
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