LRC EDUCATION: EMPOWER YOUR KNOWLEDGE
The Middle Ages in British history is a very complex time that spans roughly from the end of the 5th century to the early Modern Age, set approximately around 1485.
A comprehensive outline of the major characterising events allows students to understand better the powerful impact it had on its history and literature affecting also social life, economic development, and deep language changes.
English Literature in the Middle Ages reflected the relative stability of the Times and the general atmosphere is centred on the important role assigned to religion. Life was considered a metaphorical journey leading to heavenly salvation and its literary representation was allegorical, man’s ideas and feelings were made visible rather than simply described through coherent words. It was a time of artistic development, including drama.
