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Bede greatest work was The Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
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Beowulf is one of the best religious poems. His first great work of Germanic literature.
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The Poetic Edda is a collection of poems written in Old Norse. The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy.
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Anselm includes in his Proslogion his famous 'ontological proof' of the existence
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"The Subtle Doctor" is one of the four great philosophers of High Scholasticism of the Middle age , leaving a mark on discussions of topics as disparate as the semantics of religious language, the problem of the universals, divine enlightenment and nature Freedom.
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known as an argument analyst, it is also known by the Parsimony Act or the Economics Act. Where the principle is a method of problem-solving "Pluralities should not apply without need" or "Equally, the simplest theory tends to be true".
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Begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman, this is a religious and allegorical poem of more than 7000 verses, probably written by William Langland (h.1330-h.1387). He is one of the main exponents of the aliterative revival, his writing is without rhyme, nor stanzas. It is divided into sections that the author calls Passus, andinto two parts, Visio and Vita.
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It is a metrical romance comprising three fundamental parts: the verse, the stanza and the poem.Tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur.
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This is an epic poem by Geoffrey Chaucer that recounts in middle English and the story of lovers Troilus and Criseyde in a backdrop of war during the siege of Troy.
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Chaucer is a holy parish priest, who begins an ambitious plan for 100 Canterbury,and only completes 24 at the time of his death.
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He compiles Morte d'Arthur – an English account of the French tales of King Arthur. He was an English writer, author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. He has generally been identified as Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revel in Warwickshire, a gentleman, landowner and member of Parliament.
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Thomas and Erasmus take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism. The birth of states: Humanism and reform.
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He studies at the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English.
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The first version of the English prayer book, or Book of Common Prayer, is published with text by this autor.
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There are born in the same year, with Marlowe the older by two months.
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The 18-year-old William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in Stratford-upon-Avon
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Marlowe's first play, Tamburlaine the Great, introduces the swaggering blank verse of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
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The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588
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English poet Edmund Spenser celebrates the Protestant Elizabeth I as The Faerie Queene
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After tentative beginnings in the three parts of Henry VI, Shakespeare achieves his first masterpiece on stage with Richard III
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Shakespeare's central character in Hamlet expresses both the ideals of the Renaissance and the disillusion of a less confident age.
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James I commissions the Authorized version of the Bible, which is completed by forty-seven scholars in seven years
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Ben Jonson writes The Masque of Blackness, the first of his many masques for the court of James.
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The satirical voice of the English playwright Ben Jonson is heard to powerful effect in Volpone.
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Shakespeare's sonnets, written ten years previously, are published.
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Shakespeare's last completed play, The Tempest, is performed.
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John Smith publishes A Description of New England, an account of his exploration of the region in 1614
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William Bradford begins a journal of the Pilgrims' experience in New England, subsequently published (in 1856) as History of Plymouth Plantation
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John Donne, England's leading Metaphysical poet, becomes dean of St Paul's.
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John Heminge and Henry Condell publish thirty-six Shakespeare plays in the First Folio.
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George Herbert's only volume of poems, The Temple, is published posthumously.
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John Milton's Lycidas is published in memory of a Cambridge friend, Edward King.
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The poems of Massachusetts author Anne Bradstreet are published in London under the title The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America.
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Devoted fisherman Izaak Walton publishes the classic work on the subject, The Compleat Angler
