The middle english period

By pamela fuentes
  • 9 BCE

    middle englis illustrated

    The first passage is in the Northern dialect, from The Form of Perfect Living, by Richard Rolle of Hampole, a gentle mystic and an excellent prose writer, who
    died in 1349.
  • 7 BCE

    1337

    The Hundred Years’ War began and lasted until 1453, promoting
    English nationalism.
  • 6 BCE

    1066

    interesting their story how they evolve
  • 6 BCE

    William

    The Conqueror, they defeated
    the English and their hapless King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.
  • 4 BCE

    CHANGES IN GRAMMAR

    the number of distinct inflectional endings in English was drastically reduced.
  • 4 BCE

    removed an important tie with France

    The loss of Normandy in 1204 by King John,
    a descendant of the Conqueror the remaining ties. By the fourteenth century, several
    things happened that promoted the use of English.
  • 4 BCE

    NOUNS, PRONOUNS, AND ADJECTIVES

    Then the Middle English ending-es (from the Old English nominative-accusative plural ending -as) came to be used as a general plural ending for most nouns.