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 |
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