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The pith Ages
ca. 450: 597: 871-899: 1066: ca. 1200: Anglo-Saxon conquest Beginning of Anglo-Saxon renewing to Christianity Reign of King Alfred Norman Conquest Beginning of Middle English (ME) literary works including Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 1485: William Caxton prints Sir Thomas Malorys Morte Darthur

1360-1400: The backsheesh of ME literature with the works of Geoffrey Chaucer

The Middle Ages in the English literature includes more than 800 years from the end of the 7th century up to the end of the 15th century. This effect is divided into two part: the earlier centuries ar called the Dark Ages while the later centuries are referred to as the Middle Ages and they represent the peak of the European history. English ME includes two different periods of literature, the Old English and the ME. These two periods are divided by the Norman Conquest in 1066.

The Anglo-Saxons and the exalted Ideal
The Anglo-Saxons included three tribes: the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes. Although each of these tribes was independent, they were in truth closely consort and related to each other because of their common Germanic heritage. They divided out the same ancestor; their tongues only differed by some(prenominal) dialects of a common language and their customs were very similar.



In that period the Germanic society has been divided into families: the head of each family was the leader of his close relatives and the family formed an independent political unit. As period passed, the unit of society gradually became self-aggrandisingr and larger because a number of families united under the leadership of a sea captain leader called the king. But this unit became very large only in some occasions when a very successful king attracted others to himself in order to do some battle. But in mean(prenominal)

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