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410
Old English
The anglo-saxon period.
It begins approximately 410 A.D. when the Romans withdrew from Britain, leaving it to Germanic and Scandinavian settlers. -
Period: 410 to 1066
Old English
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800
Beowulf
Is the longest epic poem in Old English before the Norman conquest.
These kind of poems would often have been recited from memory by a court misntrel, or scop, to the accompaniment of the harp. -
950
Eddas
Eddas are the main sources of Norse mythology and skaldic poetry that relate religion, cosmogony, and history of scandinavians and proto-germanic tribes. -
1031
Book of life
The beliefe was that these names were going to apper on the heavenly book opened on the Day of the judgement -
1060
Norman Pslater
A prayerbook.
The first letter of Psalm 1 receives the most elaborate decoration of all the Psalms. Within it appear a figure of a man climbing a vine and, below, a picture of King David composing the psalms -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Medieval Period
The Norman conquest under William, Duke of Normandy, the battle of Hasting in 1066.
The manuscript, containt two historical accounts. -
1150
Texts in middle English
The end of the Old English is visible in the written sermons -
1190
The owl and the nightingale
It is a poem in which two competitive characters trade insults each other.
It is an example of a popular literary form known as verse contest. -
Period: 1200 to 1400
Alliterative texts
The theater was discovered, a relevant fact for the church. The church indoctrinated people through dramaturgy. (That is, the church realized that because of Christianity people gathered for the Eucharist, so the church decided to gather from the general to teach representative plays with religious messages). -
1215
Magna Carta
It is one of the most celebrated documents in Western History.
It was the first written material to set limits on the power of an English monarch. -
1235
Medieval Bestiary
A medieval book that gathers together descriptions of animals from ordinary creatures such as goats and bees to fantastical beasts including griffins, mermaids and unicorns -
1240
Medieval illuminator
Hand-written texts that contain beatuful decorations and illustrations, decorated letters, borders and miniatures painted with glowing, radiant colors and gold. -
1245
Medieval English Song
Written for six voices. Singers can choose between black lyrics (Middle English) or Latin ones in red. -
1300
Duns Scotus
Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later gives the humanists the name Dunsman or dunce. -
1340
William of Ockham
William of Ockham advocates reducing arguments to the essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor. -
1350
Genesis picture book
Many bibles of the Middle Ages had very beautiful illustration, and in the picture book there are images of Gos creating the earth, of the tower of Babel and many other scenes from Genesis. -
1367
William Langland
A storyteller who calls himself Will, whose name may be Langland, begins Piers Plowman's epic poem. -
1370
Le Palmer´s encyclopedia
It ha smore than 2.000 pages and 800 illustrations. It covers subjects like: natural sciences, history of man, theology, the liberal arts and religion -
1375
Sir Gawain and the green knight
It is one of the most famous romances -
1387
Chaucer
Chaucer begins an ambitious plan for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he is only 24 by the time of his death. -
1450
Evolution
Ordinary men and women begin to consume literature, iterlude Thomas Heywood and there begins to be authorship. -
1473
First printed book
William Caxton was the first Englishman to learn to use a printing press. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye was his first printed book, and the first book printed anywhere in English. -
1500
Before the Golden Age
Appearance of the printing press, which facilitates the dissemination of the texts that have culminated in the history of literature because texts are as we know them today. -
1524
William Tyndale
William Tyndale studies at the University of Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English. -
Marlowe
Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, features the chilling blank verse from the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. -
Shakespeare
Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disappointment of a less trusting age. -
The tempest
The play "the tempest" by William Shakespeare is performed -
John Smith
John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614. -
John Milton
John Milton's Lycidos is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King. -
Period: to
Restoration Age
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost (a narrative poem) is published by John Milton. -
John Locke
John Locke publishes his Essay on Human Understanding, arguing that all knowledge is based on experience. -
George Berkeley
He attacks Locke in his Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge -
Robinson Crusoe
The first English Novel written by Daniel Defoe. -
Gulliver's travels
Jonathan Swift sends his hero on a series of bitterly satirical travels -
Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding introduces a character of enduring appeal in the scruffy but good-hearted Tom Jones. -
Thomas Chatterton
17-year-old Thomas Chatterton, who was later hailed as an important poet, he commits suicide in a London attic. -
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine publishes his full Age of Reason, An Attack on Conventional Christianity. -
Jerusalem
William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton -
The lay of the last Misntrel
the long romantic poem by Walter Scott -
William Cobbett
William Cobbett returns to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809. -
Friederich Engels
After running a textile factory in Manchester, He publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England -
Peter Mark Roget
London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases. -
George Eliot
English author George Eliot gains fame with his first full-length novel, Adam Bede. -
The origin of species
Charles Darwin puts forward the theory of evolution. It is the the result of 20 years' research -
George du Maurier
French artist and author George du Maurier publishes his novel Trilby. -
Period: to
Modern Literature
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Rudyard Kipling
Rudyard Kipling publishes Just So Stories for Little Children. -
James Joyce
James Joyce's novel, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, begins serial publication in a London newspaper, The Egoist. -
Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson wins a wide readership with Tarka the Otter, a realistic story of the life and death of an otter in Devon. -
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes defines his economics in the General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. -
Period: to
Post modernism
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Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis and other young writers in Britain are known as Angry Young Men. -
Roald Dahl
British author Roald Dahl publishes a children's novel, James and the Giant Peach. -
Iris Murdoch
Iris Murdoch publishes The Sea, the Sea, and wins the 1978 Booker Prize. -
Julian Barnes
English author Julian Barnes publishes a multifaceted literary novel, Flaubert's Parrot. -
a brief history of time from the big bang to black holes
Hawking wrote the book for readers without prior knowledge of the universe and people who are just interested in learning something new. -
Louis de Bernières
Louis de Bernières publishes Captain Corelli's Mandolin, a love story set in Italian-occupied Kefalonia. -
Michael Frayn
Michael Frayn's play in Copenhagen dramatizes Werner Heisenberg's visit to Niels Bohr in Denmark during the war.
