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Canterbury Tales -- Ren Elements	Realistic Characters Satiarical + Critical (of church)	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT
Canterbury Tales -- Medieval Elements	Folk Tales + Archetypes Trip is based on pious purpose Glorifies England	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT
Chaucer -- Influences	Dante's Divine Comedy -- lang. choice + couplets Bocaccio's Decameron -- story idea	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT
Chaucer -- Life	b. 1340-4 d. 1400 Educated, middle class Bridged medieval --> renaissance	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT
Modern English -- time	1550 -- today Great Vowel Shift (1400) -- Raising Middle Class = mixing of langs -- Printing press (1470) + London English = standardization -- 1755 -- 1st dictionary (Sam Johnson's Dictionary)	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT
Middle English -- time	1066 -- 1550 CE Old English + 10000 French words 1066 -- Norman invasion (William of Normandy)	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) -- time, characteristics, why changed	mid 5th c. to 1066 CE Germanic + Celt/Pict tribes + Latin 430 -- Fall of Roman Empire	0	zeetrit Thu, 03 Nov 2011 02:26:18 GMT

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