The Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

English Literature

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• The Late Middle Ages 
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Today's objective

• You are familiar with the historical context of the late Middle Ages in Great Britain.
• Alquin pages 18-21

What do you remember from the video?

The Middle English Period

1066-1485: (later) Medieval England

The Norman Conquest

Social change: the feudal system

A long war in France: the Hundred Years' War (1337-1453)

A war at home: the Wars of the Roses (1455-1485)

1485: beginning of the Tudor Period

Linguistic change: a new language

Middle English (1) - History

Started with the battle of Hastings

1066 - c. 1300: two languages side by side

Norman French: language of court, government, the law and trade

Old English: language of the common people (peasants, townspeople)

the two slowly merge into one language

c. 1300: Middle English

c. 1480: towards (Early) Modern English

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

•  1066 - Battle of Hastings (Norman Conquest of England)

• 1095, 1147 - The Crusades

• 1215 -  Magna Carta 

• 1348 - Black Death

• 1455-1485 - York vs Lancaster

• 1485-1603 - Tudors

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• after 1066

1066

The Battle of Hastings - 14 October 1066 - between the Norman-French army of William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godwinson, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

Romanesque

Gothic

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1095, 1147

The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?

The Crusades

The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period. 

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1215

Magna Carta 1215

the first document to put into writing the principle that the king and his government was not above the law.

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1348

Black Death 

The Black Death was a bubonic plague pandemic occurring in Europe from 1346 to 1353. 

• 1455-1485
  

• 1485-1603

York vs Lancaster

Tudors

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

Feudal System

Feudal System

Feudal system

Divine right

The king had the 'divine right' to rule over the common people.

Which part of the Late Middle Ages would you like to know more about?

French influence after Norman Conquest

The Crusades

Magna Carta

Black Death

War of the Roses

Feudal System

What is the time span of the Middle English period?

1. 1066 - 1340
2. 1066 - 1485
3. 800 - 1066
4. 1340 - 1400

Which language was spoken at court?

1. French
2. English
3. Latin