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Period: 428 to 1066
THE OLD ENGLISH (ANGLO-SAXON) PERIOD
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Monastery at Jarrow
The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people. -
800
The legends of Scandinavia
Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons -
950
The material of the Eddas
The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy -
Period: 1485 to
The Renaissance and Reformation
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The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period
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David Hume
David Hume publishes his Treatise of Human Nature, in which he applies to the human mind the principles of experimental science -
Encyclopaedia Britannica
A Society of Gentlemen in Scotland begins publication of the immensely successful Encyclopaedia Britannica -
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The Romantic Period
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The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame -
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The Victorian Period and the 19th Century
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Man and Superman
Bernard Shaw has two new plays opening in London in the same year, Major Barbara and Man and Superman -
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The Modern Period
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The Waves
Virginia Woolf publishes the most fluid of her novels, The Waves, in which she tells the story through six interior monologues -
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The Postmodern Period
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His Dark Materials
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
