AGES ERA PERIOD
MIDDLE AGES
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a work derived from a Latin text of the Roman Empire
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a story about love and adventure
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a Roman official
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a work written in the French vernacular
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Old French word romanz originally meant “the speech of the people, ” or “the vulgar tongue, ” from a popular Latin word, Romanice, meaning written in the vernacular, in contrast with the written form of literary Latin. Its meaning then shifted from the language in which the work was written to the work itself.
Detailed explanation-2: -Which period of English literature came first? The first historical period of English Literature is the Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066). Hope you have a comprehensive understanding of the history of English literature through this blog.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Laws of Aethelberht I of Kent, written at the turn of the 7th century, are the earliest surviving English prose work.
Detailed explanation-4: -a morality play. [The morality play, in which personified virtues and vices struggle for man’s soul, was popular in the fifteenth century.]