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British literature is from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. This article covers British literature in the English language. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages ...
Book Titles per Capita. (Excel dataset for the period from 1500 until 2010 CE, worldwide) IPA. "IPA Annual Report 2014", International Publishers Association, retrieved October 25, 2014; Alison Flood. "UK publishes more books per capita than any other country, report shows" The Guardian, retrieved October 25, 2014
The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 September 2024. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
Count per ten million people Share per ten million people 1 China: 27736 23171.84 1,409,670,000 197 164.38 2 United States: 29165 20292.72 335,893,238 868 604.14 N/A Schengen area [Note 1] N/A 15618.76 453,324,255 N/A 344.54 3 Germany: 9347 4318.69 84,607,016 1105 510.44 4 United Kingdom: 8880 3701.99 67,596,281 1314 547.66 5 Japan: 5161 2956.75
This is a list of Nobel Prize laureates by country. Listings for Economics refer to the related Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences.The Nobel Prizes and the Prize in Economic Sciences have been awarded 577 times to 889 recipients, of which 26 awards (all Peace Prizes) were to organizations.
[5] 17 women have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, the second highest number of any of the Nobel Prizes behind the Nobel Peace Prize. [6] [7] As of 2023, there have been 29 English-speaking laureates of the Nobel Prize in Literature, followed by French with 16 laureates and German with 14 laureates. France has the highest number of ...
Economy of England in the Middle Ages. The medieval English saw their economy as comprising three groups – the clergy, who prayed; the knights, who fought; and the peasants, who worked the land. GDP per capita in England, from 1270 to 1530. The economy of England in the Middle Ages, from the Norman invasion in 1066, to the death of Henry VII ...