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Timeline of British Literature
1,861
55 BC
Roman Occupation
AD 407
?
AD 449
1066
late 1300s
1470
late 1400s
1485
1660
1798
Romantic
1818
1832
Victorian
1859
1900
1932
1949
1997
British Literature
What came before 449?
Medieval
The Restoration &
the Enlightenment
Neoclassical
Renaissance
Anglo-Saxon
Old English was a derivative of languages of the Germanic and Scandanavian invaders mixed with the Roman Latin of the previous era.
Language became closer to what we have today. During this era, the King James Bible was published, a version of the Bible that is still used in churches today.
This era was defined by the French language (the language of the Normans) infiltrating Old English and transforming it to Middle English.
The Celts
Hadrian's Wall
In AD 63, Joseph of Arimathea made a missionary journey to Glastonbury in England (this would later become part of the Arthurian Legend of the Holy Grail).
Photo by Anita363 (Flickr)
Created for the fortification of the Roman regions of England in AD 122.
Photo by drp (Flickr)
Modern
Picture from RachelH_ (Flickr)
42 years
In 55 BC, Julius Caesar Invaded Britain. He did so again (this time staying) in 54 BC. The Roman Empire became an established piece of British History until their departure in AD 407 under Emperor Contantine III.
A Celtic shield, pre-Roman?
photo by mharrsch (Flickr)
Julius Caesar
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
Essays on Man
Gulliver's Travels
Jacobean Period
Elizabethan Period
William Caxton
1484
1476
Aesop's Fables
Canterbury Tales
Bayeux Tapestry
~750
~1000
Composed
Recorded
The Normans defeat the Anglo-Saxons to claim ownership of Briton. King Herold (shown with an arrow in his eye) loses the fight to William [later known as 'the conquerer'].
John Donne
Shakespeare
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Johnson
Dictionary of the English Language
Frankenstein's Monster
By Mary Shelley
Picture by tonynetone (Flickr)
Photo by lisby1 (Flickr)
by Aldous Huxley
A Brave New World
1984
A Tale of Two Cities
by George Orwell
by Charles Dickens
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Everyman:
The Morality Play
The Cavalier Poets
Canterbury Tales
Oliver
Cromwell
Geoffrey Chaucer's account of a group of pilgrims who are on their way to the chapel at Canterbury.
Photo by Calotype46 (Flickr)
Le Morte d'Arthur
Beowulf
Sir Thomas Mallory adopted the stories of Arthur from the French (Normans). He finished his work at the end of the 1400s.
The story of a hero. The best example of an Anglo-Saxon, and a superior warrior.
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