English Literature - Middle Age to 1800

By jeanadrien
  • Period: 43 to 500

    Roman invasion and occupation of Britain

  • 449

    Germanic invasions

    Displacement of native british (celtic) population
  • Period: 450 to 1150

    Old English Period

  • 597

    Christianisation of Britain and decreasing of the latin influence

  • Period: 700 to 1000

    Beowulf

  • 1066

    Norman Conquest of England

  • Period: 1150 to 1500

    Middle English Period

  • 1370

    Late 14th Centtury : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

  • Period: 1382 to 1400

    Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer

  • 1400

    Emerging of a "standard" English through the work of the Chancery scribes of London

  • 1476

    Introduction of printing in England by Caxton

  • Period: 1500 to

    Renaissance

  • 1516

    The Utopia, Thomas More

    Written in Latin
  • Period: 1558 to

    Elizabethan Era

  • 1580

    Old Arcadia, Philip Sidney

  • New Arcadia, Philip Sidney

  • Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe

  • Volpone, Ben Jonson

  • Macbeth, Shakespeare

  • First translation of the Bible in English

  • Paradise Lost (1st Version), John Milton

  • Period: to

    Development of the Novel

  • Period: to

    Augustan Age / Neoclassicism

  • The Rape of the Lock (1st Version), Alexander Pope

  • Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe

  • Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift

  • Clarissa, Samuel Richardson

  • Tom Jones, Henry Fielding

  • Tristam Shandy, Laurence Sterne