中世英文学の主要作品と年表について「#1433. 10世紀以前の古英語テキストの分布」 ([2013-03-30-1])，「#1044. 中英語作品，Chaucer，Shakespeare，聖書の略記一覧」 ([2012-03-06-1])，「#2323 中英語の方言ごとの主要作品」 ([2015-09-06-1])，「#2503. 中英語文学」 ([2016-03-04-1]) で見てきたが，もう少し一覧性の高いものが欲しいと思い，Treharne の中世英文学作品集の pp. xvi--xvii に掲げられている年表を再現することにした．政治史と連動した文学史の年表となっている．

Historical events	Literary landmarks
From c. 449: Anglo-Saxon settlements
597: St Augustine arrives to convert Anglo-Saxons
664: Synod of Whitby
	c. 670? Cædmon's Hymn
	731: Bede finishes Ecclesiastical History
735: Death of Bede
793: Vikings raid Lindisfarne
869: Vikings kill King Edmund of East Anglia
879--99: Alfred reigns as king of Wessex	from c. 890: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
	Alfredian translations of Bede's Ecclesiastical History; Gregory's Pastoral Care; Orosius; Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy; Augustine's Soliloquies
937: Battle of Brunanburh
from c. 950: Benedictine reform
	c. 970: Exeter Book copied
959--75: King Edgar reigns	c. 975: Vercelli Book copied
978--1016: Æthelred 'the Unready' reigns	990s: Ælfric's Catholic Homilies and Lives of Saints
c. 1010: death of Ælfric	c. 1010?: Junius manuscript copied
	c. 1014: Wulfstan's sermo Lupi ad Anglos
1016--35: Cnut, king of England
1023: death of Wulfstan
1042--66: Edward the confessor reigns	Apollonius of Tyre
1066: Battle of Hastings
1066--87: William the Conqueror reigns
1135: Stephen becomes king	Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
1135--54: civil war between King Stephen and Empress Matilda	Peterborough Chronicle continuations
1154--89: Henry II reigns	1155: Wace's Roman de Brut
	1170--90: Chrétien de Troyes's Romances
	c. 1170s: The Orrmulum
	Poema Morale
	1180s: Marie de France's Lais
1189--99: Richard I reigns	c. 1190--1200? Trinity Homilies
1199--1216: John reigns	c. 1200? Hali Meiðhad
1204: loss of Normandy
1215: Magna Carta
1215: fourth Lateran Council
1216--72: Henry III reigns	c. 1220 Laȝamon's Brut
1224: Franciscan friars arrive in England	c. 1225: Ancrene Wisse
	c. 1225: King Horn
1272--1307: Edward I reigns	Manuscript Digby 86 copied
	Manuscript Jesus 29 copied
	Manuscript Cotton Caligula A. ix copied
	Manuscript Arundel 292 copied
	Manuscript Trinity 323 copied
	South English Legendary composed
	c. 1300: Cursor Mundi
	1303: Robert Mannyng of Brunne begins Handlyng Synne
1307--27: Edward II reigns
1327--77: Edward III reigns	Auchinleck Manuscript copied
	Manuscript Harley 2253 copied
1337(--1454): Hundred Years' War with France
	1338: Robert Mannyng of Brunne's Chronicle
	1340: Ayenbite of Inwit
c. 1343: Geoffrey Chaucer born
	Ywain and Gawain translated
1349: Black Death comes to England
1349: Richard Rolle dies
	1355--80: Athelston
	Wynnere and Wastoure written
	1360s--1390s: Piers Plowman
1362: English displaces French as language of lawcourts and Parliament
	1370s--1400: Canterbury Tales
1377: Richard II accedes to throne	1370s: Julian of Norwich's Vision
1381: Peasants' Revolt breaks out
1399: Richard II deposed
1399: Henry IV accedes to the throne
	c. 1400: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
	c. 1400: Chaucer dies
	c. 1410--30: Book of Margery Kempe

　・ Treharne, Elaine, ed. Old and Middle English c. 890--c. 1450: An Anthology. 3rd ed. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

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