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1220 – A new shrine built at Canterbury Cathedral in England to house the remains of St Thomas Becket quickly becomes one of Europe's major places of pilgrimage, [6] and the destination of the fictional pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's set of narrative poems The Canterbury Tales, written about 170 years later.
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.
A single example of a Classical romance has survived: a fragment of the story of Apollonius of Tyre was translated in the 11th century from the Gesta Romanorum. [ 71 ] [ 73 ] A monk who was writing in Old English at the same time as Ælfric and Wulfstan was Byrhtferth of Ramsey , whose book Handboc was a study of mathematics and rhetoric.
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). The literature of this time ...
The history of literature is the historical development of writings in prose or poetry that attempt to provide entertainment or education to the reader, as well as the development of the literary techniques used in the communication of these pieces.
Middle English (abbreviated to ME [1]) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.
Ancrene Wisse - MS Cleopatra in the British Library. Ancrene Wisse (/ ˌ æ ŋ k r ɛ n ˈ w ɪ s /; also known as the Ancrene Riwle [note 1] / ˌ æ ŋ k r ɛ n ˈ r iː ʊ l i / [1] or Guide for Anchoresses) is an anonymous monastic rule (or manual) for anchoresses written in the early 13th century.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Years of the 13th century in literature (1 C) \ ... 13th-century literature of England (6 P) I. 13th-century ...