ENGL1007 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Middle English, John Trevisa, Peterborough Chronicle
Document Summary
The historical shift from the period of around 1066 - 1500. 1066a. d. being the beginning of the norman conquest of england: note: english has never been static; it is always evolving. The early middle english period; 1066 - approx. Administrators needed to know other languages in order to communicate to other areas. Examples of early me: similar to oe. The peterborough chronicle, 1137: vocabulary, letter characters, word order and strange redundancies - like the conjunctions which have a meaning in early me, but not in mne. The owl and the nightingale, 1200: recognisable to someone who only knows mne, as there are many similarities between the word, phonetically, between the two versions. 1200s: king john lachland, in 1204, lost all of the normandy, except the channel islands, from. So, all of the english holdings in france were lost: land owners who held positions in both france and england - the nobles - had to then choose between franc and england.
