Lesson 3: The Late Middle Ages (1066-1500) pp.14-18

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

English Literature

This year: The Middle Ages 

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Canterbury Tales

Today's objective

• You are familiar with the historical context of the late Middle Ages in Great Britain.
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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)

•  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[a] was fought on 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

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?