TIMELINE

PERIODS Anglo-Saxon Medieval Renaissance Restoration The Age of The Romantic The Victorian The British
Period Period Period Period Enlightenment Period Period Modern Period

450 A.D - 1066

1066 - 1485 1485 - 1660 1660 - 1688 1685 - 1815 1800 - 1850 1873 - 1901 1901 - 1939
The Anglo-Saxon The Medieval The Renaissance The Restoration The Age of The Romantic The Victorian The British
period was a period, which period, also Period, also Enlightenment, Period was era also saw Modern Period,
time of significant lasted from the known as the called the also known as characterized by a significant also known as
Significant
political and 5th to the 15th "rebirth" era, was Restoration Era, the Age of focus on emotions, advances in the 20th century,
Historical social change, century, was a significant is a significant Reason, was a imagination, medicine, was an era
Account with the one of the period in period in English period of individuality, and science, and marked by
formation of most European history history that intellectual and nature. It was a technology. significant
kingdoms and significant that lasted from spanned from cultural revolution reaction against The historical events
the periods in the 14th to the 1660 to 1688. that took place in the Enlightenment, development of and cultural
establishment of world history. It 17th century. It This period Europe during the which emphasized the telegraph, transformations.
the Anglo-Saxon saw the was a time of marked the 18th century. It reason, logic, and telephone, and The British
legal system. emergence of tremendous restoration of the was scientific inquiry. radio Modern Period
The Anglo-Saxon powerful progress in arts, English characterized by The Romantic transformed was a time of
legal system was empires, sciences, and monarchy under a shift away from Period was also a communication, significant
based on the kingdoms, and human King Charles II the traditional response to the while the change, marked
principle of city-states, as development, and after the Puritan religious, political, Industrial discovery of by economic,
compensation, well as the it marked the Commonwealth and social views Revolution, which penicillin and social, and
where crimes spread of new beginning of government of of the medieval had led to other antibiotics political upheaval.
were punished ideas, cultures, modernity in Oliver Cromwell’s period and urbanization, was a Despite the
based on the and Europe. reign. towards a more social upheaval, significant challenges faced
severity of the technologies. rational, and environmental milestone in the by the country
offense and the enlightened, and degradation. treatment of during this era,
compensation secular outlook. infectious the period also
 paid to the victim diseases. saw significant
or their family. progress in areas
such as civil
rights and social
welfare.
-Heroism and -Courtly Love -Satire -Satire -Reason and -Nature -Nature -Alienation and
Courage -Religion -Neoclassicism -Social Behavior rationality -Imagination -Romanticism fragmentation
-Fate and -Heroism -Humanism -Social Manners -Individualism -Emotion -Industry and -The decline of
Literary
Destiny -Allegory -Love -Progress -Individualism Technology traditional
Themes -Loyalty and -Arthurian -Politics -Secularism -Mysticism -Social Justice authority
Kinship Legends -Nature -Humanism -Spiritual -Imperialism -The decline of
-Honor and -Death and -Individualism understanding of and Empire traditional
Reputation Mortality -Science and divine authority
-Christian and -Social Order Technology -The impact of
Pagan Beliefs technology
-Community and -The influence of
Hospitality psychology
-Wisdom and -The
Knowledge fragmentation of
-Nature and the time and space
Environment -The questioning
of traditional
gender roles
-The search for
new forms of
expression
-Alliteration -Religion -Doric -Heroic Couplet -Individual Liberty -Love and Worship -Narrative -Stream of
-Caesura -Feudalism -Ionic -Iambic -Religious for Nature Poetry consciousness
-Kenning -Chivalry -Corinthian Pentameter Tolerance -Freedom from -Depictions of “Mrs. Dalloway”
Styles and
-Elegiac Tone -Tuscan -Satire Rules Everyday By; Virginia Woolf
Works -Composite -Drama Works: -Solitary life rather People -War literature
Works: Works: -Heroic Tragedy -Rousseau, than life in Society -Hard Lives “Dulce et
-Beowulf -The Devine Works: Discourse on -Devotion to -Moral Lesson Decorum Est"
 By; Anonymous Comedy -The Mona Lisa Works: Inequality Beauty By; Wilfred Owen
-Anglo-Saxon By; Alighieri And The Last -All for Love By; Robert Works:
Chronicle Dante Super By; John Dryden Wokler Works: -Oliver Twist
By; King Alfred -The By; Da Vinci -Paradise Lost - Montesquieu's -Frankenstein By; Charles
the Great Canterbury -Statue of David By; John Milton The Spirit of the By; Mary Shelley Dickens
-The Dream of Tales By; Michel Angelo Laws -Pride and -The Professor
the Rood By; Geoffrey By; Charles Louis Prejudice By; Charlotte
By; Cædmon Chaucer de Secondat By; Jane Austen Bronte
and Cynewulf -The -Songs of -The Tenant of
-The Seafarer Decameron Innocence and of Wildfell Hall
By; Ezra Pound By; Giovanni Experience By; Anne
Boccaccio By; William Blake Bronte
-La Morte
D’Arthur
By; Thomas
Malory

-Ezra Pound -Geoffrey -John Milton Samuel Pepys -Robert Wokler -William Blake -Charles -Virginia Woolf
-Caedmon and Chaucer -William -John Bunyan -Charles Louis de -Lord Byron Dickens -James Joyce
Cynewulf -William Shakespeare -Aphra Benn Secondat -Mary Shelley -Bronte Sisters -Wilfred Owen
Respective
-King Alfred the Langland -Edmund -John Milton - -Jane Austen -Thomas Hardy -Siegfried
Notable Great -Thomas Spencer -John Dryden -John Keats - Sassoon
Writers -Anonymous Malory - -William Long -Percy Byshe
-Aldhelm -Giovanni rete -William
-Stephen of Boccaccio -John Locke Wordsworth
Ripon -Alighieri -Samuel Taylor
Dante

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Mary Claire V. Cordero BSED-3