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Medieval Period Time line: 1066-1485 1066: Battle of Hastings King Harold II of England is defeated by the Norman forces of William the Conqueror In 1051, William visited England and met with his cousin Edward the Confessor. Edward promised to make William his heir. On his deathbed, however, Edward granted the kingdom to Harold Godwine, head of the leading noble family in England. In January 1066, King Edward died, and Harold Godwine was proclaimed King Harold II. William immediately disputed his claim After his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William marched on London and received the city's submission. On Christmas Day, 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, and the Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became the language of the king's court and gradually blended with the Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English (ME).
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Medieval Period and Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales
British Literature: Mrs. Tucker Medieval Period Time line:
1066-1485
1066: Battle of Hastings King Harold II of England is defeated by
the Norman forces of William the Conqueror In 1051, William visited
England and met with his cousin Edward the Confessor. Edward
promised to make William his heir. On his deathbed, however, Edward
granted the kingdom to Harold Godwine, head of the leading noble
family in England. In January 1066, King Edward died, and Harold
Godwine was proclaimed King Harold II. William immediately disputed
his claim After his victory at the Battle of Hastings, William
marched on London and received the city's submission. On Christmas
Day, 1066, he was crowned the first Norman king of England, and the
Anglo-Saxon phase of English history came to an end. French became
the language of the king's court and gradually blended with the
Anglo-Saxon tongue to give birth to modern English (ME). William
the Conquerer Reigned from 1066 to 1087 (his death)
Never spoke English and was illiterate (ironic b/c introducing
French as Englands official language influenced Modern English the
most). Medieval Period Time line: 1066-1485
1073: Canterbury, England becomes Englands religious center 1096:
Beginning of the Crusades: Religious war between the Christians and
Muslims 1170: Thomas a Becket, archbishop of Canterbury, is
murdered in the Cathedral. He is immediately canonized as a saint
and people began flocking to Canterbury on religious pilgrimages
(premise to Chaucers The Canterbury Tales) 1291: End of the
Crusades (8 Crusades total since the first) Thomas a Becket St.
Thomas Becket, England's archbishop of Canterbury, refused to give
King Henry II power over the Church. Murdered in 1170 by King Henry
IIs knights. Medieval Period Time line: 1066-1485
1337 (ends 1453): 100 year war begins between France and England
1348: The Black Death begins (Pardoners Tale in The Canterbury
Tales The Black Death arrived in Europe by sea in October 1347 when
12 trading ships docked at Messina after a long journey through the
Black Sea. The people who gathered on the docks to greet the ships
were met with a horrifying surprise: Most of the sailors aboard the
ships were dead, and those who were still alive were gravely ill.
They were overcome with fever, unable to keep food down and
delirious from pain. Strangest of all, they were covered in
mysterious black boils that oozed blood and pus and gave their
illness its name: the Black Death. The authorities hastily ordered
the fleet of death ships out of the harbor, but it was too late:
Over the next five years, the mysterious Black Death would kill
more than 20 million people in Europealmost one-third of the
continents population. : War of the Roses (Richard III): Ends
Medieval Period Yorks verses Lancasters Who is Geoffrey
Chaucer?
Born in 1340 in London, England Chaucers family was of the
bourgeois class, descended from an affluent family who made their
money in the London wine trade. In 1357, Chaucer became a public
servant to Countess Elizabeth of Ulster, the Duke of Clarences
wife, for which he was paid a small stipendenough to pay for his
food and clothing. In 1359, the teenage Chaucer went off to fight
in the Hundred Years War in France, and at Rethel he was captured
for ransom. Thanks to Chaucers royal connections, King Edward III
helped pay his ransom. Geoffrey Chaucer Who is Geoffrey
Chaucer?
In 1366, Chaucer married Philippa Roet, the daughter of Sir Payne
Roet, and the marriage conveniently helped further Chaucers career
in the English court. By 1368, King Edward III had made Chaucer one
of his esquires. From 1370 to 1373, he went abroad again and
fulfilled diplomatic missions in Florence and Genoa, helping
establish an English port in Genoa. He also spent time
familiarizing himself with the work of Italian poets Dante and
Petrarch along the way. Philippa passed away in 1387, Chaucer
stopped sharing in her royal annuities and suffered financial
hardship. Who is Geoffrey Chaucer?
From 1389 to 1391, after Richard II had ascended to the throne,
Chaucer held a draining and dangerous position as Clerk of the
Works. He was robbed by highwaymen twice while on the job, which
only served to further compound his financial worries. To make
matters even worse, Chaucer had stopped receiving his pension.
Chaucer eventually resigned the position for a lower but less
stressful appointment as sub-forester, or gardener, at the Kings
park in Somersetshire. The legendary 14th century English poet
Geoffrey Chaucer died October 25, 1400 of in London, England. The
Canterbury Tales: What you need to know!
Geoffrey Chaucer (as a character) is on a pilgrimage to
Canterbury.On the way, he stops by an inn in London, the Talbard
Inn. Harry Bailey is the inn keeper. 29 pilgrims stop by the inn on
their way to Canterbury.They are from all walks of life and
represent all the social classes in England at the time (Feudalism
at it s best). Harry Bailey challenges the pilgrims to a contest:
who can tell the best tale on the way to Canterbury. All the
pilgrims accept the challenge and as they travel to Canterbury,
they each take turns telling their story. The Canterbury Tales are
24 stories told with in a story (frame story). Allegory: many of
the tales are allegories for something greater Heroic couplet:
writing style; pair of rhyming lines with 5 stressed syllables in
each line From A Knights Tale Sooooooo Do you notice any
comparisons between today and the medieval period??