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c. 1340–45 – Walter Hilton, English mystic writing in Latin and English (died 1396) c. November 1342 – Julian of Norwich, English religious writer and mystic (died c. 1416) 1343 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (died 1400) 1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian and saint (died 1380)
Little survives of early Middle English literature, due in part to Norman domination and the prestige that came with writing in French rather than English. During the 14th century, a new style of literature emerged with the works of writers including John Wycliffe and Geoffrey Chaucer, whose Canterbury Tales remains the most studied and read ...
Early examples of Middle English literature are the Ormulum and Havelock the Dane. In the fourteenth century major works of English literature began once again to appear, including the works of Chaucer. The latter portion of the 14th century also saw the consolidation of English as a written language and a shift to secular writing.
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country).
Early Modern English (sometimes abbreviated EModE [1] or EMnE) or Early New English (ENE) is the stage of the English language from the beginning of the Tudor period to the English Interregnum and Restoration, or from the transition from Middle English, in the late 15th century, to the transition to Modern English, in the mid-to-late 17th century.
14th-century English writers (3 C, 59 P) F. 14th-century French writers (5 C, 32 P) G. 14th-century Greek writers (2 C, 15 P) H. 14th-century writers from the Holy ...
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