Late Middle Ages

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• Leerjaar 4

English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• 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

Timeline Early Middle Ages (450-1066)

• 55 BC - 450 AD: Great Britain under Roman rule

• After 450 AD: Celts attack, Romans withdraw --> Migration of the people --> Anglo-Saxon settlers

• 7th century turn to Christianity --> increase Latin & Old English literature --> 793 Vikings attack --> Viking settlers

•  8th-11th century Wars for the crown --> 1066 end of Anglo-Saxon era and beginning of Norman period

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• after 1066

• 1095, 1147

• 1215

• 1348

• 1455-1485

• 1485-1603

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• after 1066

Romanesque

Gothic

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1095, 1147

The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1215

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

• 1348

• 1455-1485
  

• 1485-1603

York vs Lancaster

Tudors

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

Feudal System

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

Changes in English

Robin Hood

13th-14th century?