From Rome to Hastings

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From Rome to Hastings Beyond
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Roman Times Beyond

• Britain invaded/conquered 43AD
• Romans leave in 420AD
• Fall of Roman EmpireAD 476
• AD450Anglo-Saxon Conquest
• AD597St. Augustine begins Christian conversion
• 871-99 Reign of King Alfred
• 1066 Battle of Hastings

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Literary Periods

• Anglo-Saxon
• Bedes Ecclesiastical History (in
  Latin)731AD
• King Alfredpatron of literature
  871-99AD (translated Boethiuss Consolation of
  Philosophy) collected Old English poetry
  translated to West Saxon dialect
• Beowulf

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Anglo-Norman Period

• After Battle of Hastings in 1066
• Henry II-1154-1189 became king married Eleanor
  of Aquitane-increased French land holdings
• The Play of Adam -12th C.
• Development of romance
• Geoffrey of Monmouth- The History of the Kings of
  Britain - reign of King Arthur

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Middle English Period

• 100 Years War
• Black Deathbubonic plague1348
• Chaucer read Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
  influenced Canterbury Tales
• William Langlands allegoryPiers Plowman
• Sir Gawain the Green Night

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15th Century

• 1399 Henry Bolingbroke (Henry IV) deposed Richard
  II
• Henry VBattle of Agincourt 1415
• War of the Rosesred rose-Lancaster white
  rose-York ends in 1485 when Henry Tudor defeats
  Richard III becomes Henry VII
• Period of turmoil

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