Summary Literary History: From the Middle Ages to Modern age

Literary History Timeline
Summary Overview

Content: Content: Content: Content:
- Instruct masses - Emphasis on logic and Reason - Social struggle - Horrors of War
- Highly religious - Rise of Satire - Scientific worldview - Deconstructivism
Context: Context: Context: Context:
- Crusades - Growing literacy - Gap rich/poor deepens - WWII and Cold War
- Increase in (internal) trading - Growing middle-class - Industrial boom - Social Liberation


Medieval Neoclassical Victorian Post-Mode
1485 1798 1901
1066 1660 1830 1945

Renaissance Romantic Modern
Content:
Content: Content:
- Break down of social norms
- Focus shift from religion to life - Impression and interpretation.
- Objection/rejection religious and
- Aspects of love explored - Struggle nature versus urban
social expectation
Context: Context:
Context:
- Arrival Printing Press - Napoleon Rises to power.
- WW I
- Trade goes international - Growing Industry
- Roaring ’20’s

,Literary History Timeline Medieval Era (449 – 1485
Important Dates Overview



Henry V dies
Anglo – Saxon Invasion Beowulf Domesday Book Richard II deposed Start War of the Roses


ca. 450 ca. 750 1086 1399 1422



579 1066 1387-99 1415 1485
St Augustine starts Norman Invasion Canterbury Tales are Battle of Agincourt Henry VII crowne
converting written - End War of the
- Start Tudor Dyn

, Medieval Era 449 - 1485


• Content: • Zeitgeist:
• Instruct Illiterate Masses. • Patriarchal dominance
• Highly Religious. • Monarchy Rule (mostly)
• Effect: • Class Division
• Church instructs people through. • Illiterate Masses
moral and miracle plays.
• Context:
• Crusades
• Increase in trading.