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Old English The Roman Invasion of Britain ocurred when emperor Claudius was under control. Great Britain had already frequently been a target for invasions.
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https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_OE_Gallery.htm Caedmon's Hymn
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https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_OE_Gallery.htm Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
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http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_middle.html However, the Normans spoke a rural dialect of French with considerable Germanic influences, usually called Anglo-Norman or Norman French, which was quite different from the standard French of Paris of the period, which is known as Francien.
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http://www.iep.utm.edu/bacon-ro/#SH1b Summa de Sophismatibus et Distinctionibus
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Chaucer The Wife of Bath's Tale
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http://www.thehistoryofenglish.com/history_middle.html Such was the pace of continuous change to the language at this time, that different forms of words were often used interchangeably, even by the same author, and this flexibility (or inconsistency) in spelling is quite noticeable in Chaucer’s work (e.g. yeer and yere, doughtren and doughtres, etc).
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http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/cultureartliterature/a/blackdeath.htm The Black Death originated in the north-west shores of the Caspian Sea, in the land of the Mongol Golden Horde, and spread into Europe when the Mongols attacked an Italian trading post at Kaffa in the Crimea.
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http://www.biography.com/people/petrarch-9438891 Petrarch's most well-known vernacular compositions were lyrical poems about Laura, a woman he had fallen in unrequited love with after seeing her in an Avignon church.
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https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_ME_Gallery.htm The Game and Playe of The Chesse
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http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/renaissance_authors.html King Henry VIII’s
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http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-english-bible-history/william-tyndale.html The Obedience of a Christian Man
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http://web.cn.edu/kwheeler/renaissance_authors.html Hero and Leander
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http://writershistory.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=588&Itemid=39 The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
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http://www.biography.com/people/daniel-defoe-9269678 The True-Born Engishman
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https://royalsociety.org/about-us/history/ At first apparently nameless, the name The Royal Society first appears in print in 1661, and in the second Royal Charter of 1663 the Society is referred to as 'The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge'.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voltaire Voltaire Treatise on Tolerance
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http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/act-settlement The Stuart cause was set back in September, however, when James II died and at the deathbed, Louis XIV acknowledged young James Francis Edward as the new king of England as James III.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Enlightenment Although Enlightenment thinkers generally shared a similar set of values, their philosophical perspectives and methodological approaches to accomplishing their goals varied in significant and sometimes contradictory ways.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Rousseau The Social Contrac
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant Kant Critique of Judgment
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake Songs of Innocence
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http://www.bl.uk/people/robert-burns Kilmarnock Volume
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http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-berchet/ Giulia and Matilde Romanze
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/219315/French-Revolution The French population participated actively in the new political culture created by the Revolution. Dozens of uncensored newspapers kept citizens abreast of events, and political clubs allowed them to voice their opinions.
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http://www.historycentral.com/1812/Declares.html The War of 1812 began as a result of American rights being infringed upon by the British. Even though there was no clear victory, Americans felt a burst of nationalism that lead to the American Romantic Period.
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http://www.bl.uk/people/emily-bronte Wuthering Heights
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http://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/british-empire/brit-history-10-events-victorian-era-every-anglophile-know/ The famine was a watershed in the history of Ireland.Its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political and cultural landscape.
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http://www.anglotopia.net/british-history/british-empire/brit-history-10-events-victorian-era-every-anglophile-know/ The Ottoman Empire declared war on Russia in October 1853 and suffered a major defeat that gave Russia control of the Black Sea.
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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/411322/New-Culture-Movement Although it started in the early 1900s, it was actively promoted especially after World War I, and after the May 4th Movement, thousands of Chinese participated in the program.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Baldwin Go Tell it on the Mountain
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cormac_McCarthy Blood Meridian
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_King The Shining
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruki_Murakami Norwegian Wood
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Conversion to Christianity Columba, a monk from Ireland, who studied at the monastic school of Moville under St. Finnian, arrived in Iona as a self-imposed exile. The influence of the monastery of Iona would grow into what Peter Brown has called an "unusually extensive spiritual empire" which "stretched from western Scotland deep to the southwest into the heart of Ireland.
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https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_OE_Gallery.htm Consolation of Philosophy
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