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Medieval age
- Historical events
  - 1190: Richard I “Lionheart” joins the Third Crusade.
  - 1215: King John and his barons sign the Magna Carta.
  - 1279: Edward I’s Statute of Mortmain restricts land acquisition by the church.
  - 1315-1322: Millions die in the Great European Famine.
  - 1337: Beginning of the Hundred Years War between England and France
  - 1348: The Black Death enters Britain.
  - 1477: William Caxton publishes the first printed book in England.
- Historical figures
  - Isabelle of France
  - Richard I "Lionheartt"
  - Margaret of Anjou
  - Edward ("The Black Prince")
- Religion
  - Roman Catholic
    - It was part of the government.
    - In 1300, one in every twenty people was a cleric.
  - Pilgrimages were made to achieve spiritual merit or cures for poor health.
  - Belief in "wee folk", fairies, ghost, earth and water spirits.
  - Pagans were burned as witches or sorcerers.
- Literature
  - Geoffrey Chaucer
    - Canterbury Ttles (1387-1400)
  - Julian of Norwich
    - Revelations of divine love (1373)
  - The book of Margery Kempe (late 1430's)
  - The Gawain poet
  - Thomas Malory
    - Le Morte D' Arthur (1469)
Renaissance
- Literature
  - Dante Alighieri
    - The divine comedy (1308-1321)
  - Miguel de Cervantes
    - Don Quixote (1605)
  - John Milton
    - Paradise lost (1667)
  - William Shakespeare
    - Hamlet (1599-1601)
    - Romeo and Julieta (1595-1597)
  - Edmund Spenser
    - The faerie queene (1590)
  - Francesco Petrarch
    - Canzoniere (1470)
  - Pierre de Ronsard
    - La Franciade (1572)
  - Lyric and epic poetry
  - Drama and tragedy plays
- Historical events
  - 1200 -1230: Humanism arises.
  - 1440: The printing press is invented.
  - 1453: The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire
  - 1463-1469: Marsilio Ficinio translated Plato’s work sharing the platonic ideas all over Europe.
  - 1492: Columbus sails west.
  - 1527: The Holy Roman emperor, Charles V, conquers Rome, ending the Renaissance as a unified period in Italy.
- Religion
  - The failure of Roman Catholic Church provided stability to spiritual and civic life.
  - Process of secularization
  - Development of a rational perspective without abandoning religion
  - Humanist philosophy vs Christian Church
- Historical figures
  - Leonardo Da Vinci
  - Michelangelo
  - Galileo Galilei
  - Niccolo Machiavelli
  - Michel de Montaigne
Anglo-Saxon age
- Historial events
  - 449: Angles and Saxons first arrive in Britain.
  - 597: St. Augustine came to England and introduced people to Christianity.
  - 600: England is divided into seven major kingdoms.
  - 802: Egbert was the first Anglo-Saxon king of all England.
  - 1066: The Battle of Hastings took place, resulting in the Normans defeating the Anglo-Saxons.
- Literature
  - Beowulf
  - The ruin
  - Heroic and elegiac poetry
  - The battle of Maldon
- Historical figures
  - King Alfred
  - Saint Bede the Venerable (“The Father of English History” )
  - Egbert
- Religion
  - Norse and Scandinavian mythology
  - Woden: The king of the Anglo-Saxon gods
  - The Pope sent a monk to persuade the king to become Christian.
  - Many Anglo-Saxons turned to Christianity.