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Period: 650 to 1100
Old English literature
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Period: 700 to 750
Beowulf
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830
First Arthurian works
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1066
Norman Conquest
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1135
Historia Regum Britanniae
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1204
Normandy taken by France
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Period: 1250 to 1400
most prolific period for borrowed words (French)
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Period: 1300 to 1400
The Canterbury Tales
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1349
English language of instruction at University of Oxford