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410
Julius Caesar invades Britain
55 BCE - Roman invasion to have lasting effects on Angle-land = England -
Period: 449 to 1066
Anglo-Saxon Period
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Jan 1, 600
Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England Begins
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Period: 600 to
Medieval Period
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Jan 1, 700
Beowulf is written
Anonymous write; began as oral story. -
Jan 1, 731
Saint Bede's The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
The Conversion of King Edwin
The Story of Caedmon -
Period: 1100 to 1453
MIDDLE AGES
the period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453) definition from Oxford Languages -
Jan 1, 1475
The Canterbury Tales
Published after Geoffrey Chaucer's death.
TYPE OF WORK · Poetry
GENRES · Narrative collection of a variety of genres
LANGUAGE · Middle English
NARRATOR · The primary narrator is an anonymous -
Macbeth by William Shakespeare
The most influential writer in all of English literature, William Shakespeare was born in 1564 & died in 1616. Play about murder, revenge, the supernatural, pride, and peer pressure. -
Period: to
17th & 18th Centuries
Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels & A Modest Proposal -
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
TYPE OF WORK · Satirical Novel
TIME AND PLACE WRITTEN · Approximately 1712–1726, London and Dublin
NARRATOR · Lemuel Gulliver (1 POV) -
Gulliver's Travels
Part I --> Chapter 5
Part II --> Chapter 6 & 7 -
A Modest Proposal
Satirical Essay -
A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift
Ireland was a country that had been effectively controlled by England for nearly 500 years. SATIRE = CRAZY PLAN TO SOLVE PROBLEMS OF NATION -
Exeter Book of Riddles written
Anglo-Saxon Riddles! -
Vikings Invade England
Until 1066CE
