LITERATURE QUESTIONS
OVERVIEW OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
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Detailed explanation-1: -Middle English developed gradually in the decades following the Norman Conquest of 1066. It emerged not only through the linguistic influence of Norman French, but also of Old Norse from the Viking populations that had settled in northern Britain.
Detailed explanation-2: -The history of English is conventionally, if perhaps too neatly, divided into three periods usually called Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, and Modern English.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.