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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.
William Bullokar was a 16th-century printer who devised a 40-letter phonetic alphabet for the English language. [1] Its characters were presented in the black-letter or "gothic" writing style commonly used at the time and also in Roman type.
In 1561 he became the first headmaster of Merchant Taylors' School in London, where he wrote his two treatises on education, Positions (1581) and Elementarie (1582). Merchant Taylors' School was at that time the largest school in the country, and Mulcaster worked to establish a rigorous curriculum which was to set the standard for education in Latin, Greek and Hebrew.
The history of English grammars [1] [2] begins late in the sixteenth century with the Pamphlet for Grammar by William Bullokar.In the early works, the structure and rules of English grammar were based on those of Latin.
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.
Covenant bond from 1623 written in Latin and English. Secretary hand or script is a style of European handwriting developed in the early sixteenth century that remained common in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for writing English, German, Welsh and Gaelic. [1]
Diagram of the changes in English vowels during the Great Vowel Shift. The Great Vowel Shift was a series of pronunciation changes in the vowels of the English language that took place primarily between the 1400s and 1600s [1] (the transition period from Middle English to Early Modern English), beginning in southern England and today having influenced effectively all dialects of English.
John Hart (died 1574) was an English educator, grammarian, spelling reformer and officer of arms. [1] He is best known for proposing a reformed spelling system for English, which has been described as "the first truly phonological scheme" in the history of early English spelling. [2]