The Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

English Literature

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

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This lesson contains 28 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.

Lesson duration is: 60 min

Items in this lesson

English Literature

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

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Today's objective

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

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What do you remember from the video?

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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

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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

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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

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Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

after 1066

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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.

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Romanesque

Gothic

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Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

1095, 1147

The Crusades - Pilgrimage or Holy War?

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The Crusades

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

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Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

1215

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Magna Carta 1215

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

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Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

1348

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Black Death

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

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1455-1485

1485-1603

York vs Lancaster

Tudors

Timeline Late Middle Ages (1066-1500)

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Feudal System

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Feudal System

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Feudal system

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Divine right

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

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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

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What is the time span of the Middle English period?

1066 - 1340

1066 - 1485

800 - 1066

1340 - 1400

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Which language was spoken at court?

French

English

Latin

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