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Introduction. by D.J. Kingdon. The 14th century can be characterized by these important events or historical changes: The beginning of the 100 years war with France. The peasants revolt and the decline of the feudal system. The Black Death. The rise in national consciousness. The founding of the Lollard Movement.
14th century in literature. This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 14th century . Events. Petrarch (1304-1374) 1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse.
The poem takes the form of a series of dream visions dealing with the social and spiritual predicament of late 14th-century England against a sombre apocalyptic backdrop. Realistic and allegorical elements are mingled in a phantasmagoric way, and both the poetic medium and the structure are frequently subverted by the writer’s spiritual and ...
The term Middle English literature refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the late 12th century until the 1470s. During this time the Chancery Standard , a form of London -based English, became widespread and the printing press regularized the language.
The age of humanism. The European Renaissance (the “rebirth” of the classical past) really began in 14th-century Italy with Petrarch and Boccaccio.
By the 14th century, English reemerged as the dominant language but in a form very different from Anglo-Saxon Old English. Writers of the 13th and 14th centuries described the co-existence of Norman French and the emerging English now known as Middle English.
Many more such romances were produced in the 14th century.
