Notes taken from The Norton Anthology of English Literature (1)The Middle Ages

 

  • Length of the period:                                                               800 years
  • Literary works that mark the beginning and the end of the age:  Caedmon's Hymn and      Everyman
  • Historical event that marks the end of the age:   accession of Henry the seventh to      the throne
  • Its beginning:                                                        the end of the seventh century 
  • Its end:                                                                  the end of the 15th cen.  
  • Historical division of the period:                           the Dark Ages ,European culture glorification      
  • Literary division of the period:                           the Old English( Anglo-Saxon), the Middle English
  • The event that marks and makes the division:    the Norman conquest 1066