Early and Medieval English LiteratureThree famouse Conquests:The Roman Conquest (55BC- 410AD)The Anglo-Saxon Conquest (449-1066)The Norman Conquest (1066-1485)The Anglo—Saxon Poetry: Pagan Poetry (Beowulf)Religious Poetry (Caedmon and Cynewulf)The Anglo-Saxon Prose: (Prose appeared in the 8th century )Venerable Bede (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)Alfred the Great Medieval Literature1066: Anglo-Saxon Period bagan1200: Middle English Literature baganRaman Cycles: ”Matters of Rome" ”Matters of France" ”Matters of Britain"(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight) Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century):1
The Romance of the Rose (translation from French) 2
The House of Fame 3
Trolius and Criseide 4
The Canterbury TalesJohn Wycliffe (14th century): the first attempt to translate the latin ver