Old English has been described as the earliest building block of the present English language, which may be difficult to believe due to the difference in writing structure. Old English originated from pre-Roman languages such as Celtic. The Romans invaded Britain around 43 AD by the Roman Emperor Claudius, in order to continue Julius Caesar’s work from his early visits to Britain. Once the Romance accomplished control of Britain, it was known as Roman Britain and established Roman cultural influences such as Christianity. In 410 AD the Roman Empire fail and were forced to abandon Britain, leaving the local British natives defenses. As a result, Germanic Tribes such as Jutes, Angle, and Saxons migrated to Britain and offered it protection from
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Danes rules over Britain for around fifty years after the Anglo-Saxons and were defeated in the Battle of Hastings by the king of Normandy, William the Conqueror, in 1066. Along with Williams’s victory, he brought control, new pronunciations of words, and stability of Britain; making it a feudal economic system. This system was established from three social classes that ranged from first, second and third. In addition, the social classes separated poor from wealth, first class or the wealthy would enrich them themselves with knowledge and education by literature. Not long after, in 1348 came the Plague or Black Death, which exterminated more than a third of the population. Around the mid-fourteenth century, the economic system set by William died out as people began to know what their life was valued and began to form a different society where everyone could advance in literature. Middle English was characterized by new ways of grammar and vocabulary. The difference between the grammars established in Middle and Old English would be the way it changed from illustrating no expression of grammatical structure, to establishing logical reasoning and analysis. This allowed people to understand each other in writing in order to fortify a signal language. Furthermore, vocabulary significantly has changed as Old English evolved into …show more content…
The invention of the printing press established a new way in which incorporated everyone, poor to rich, and allowed them to read books, poems, and works of literature. As a result, almost all of England’s population could read and write. The invention of the printing press also helped create a dictionary, in which people obtained a type of guide to spelling the word they used correctly. A new door of rebirth or Renaissance was opening for Britain, as a world of new ways of thought, culture, and different religious views in 1485. As a result, art was seen in a different new way with plays being the main form of entertainment. This caused people to become fond of literature, acquiring a need for scribes in order to attain more copies of documents to read. By 1530 almost about half of England’s population could read. Around this time King Henry VIII decided to divorce his wife since she could not conceive a male heir to his throne, but the Catholic Church strictly prohibited him from attaining divorce. As a result, the strict rules of the Catholic Church caused Henry to abandon the church and create a new and “better” church that would meet his needs of divorce and personal benefit. New form s of translating the Bible, King James Bible, was made due to the new establishment of Henry’s church. Henry dies in 1547, and in 1558 after a
Danes rules over Britain for around fifty years after the Anglo-Saxons and were defeated in the Battle of Hastings by the king of Normandy, William the Conqueror, in 1066. Along with Williams’s victory, he brought control, new pronunciations of words, and stability of Britain; making it a feudal economic system. This system was established from three social classes that ranged from first, second and third. In addition, the social classes separated poor from wealth, first class or the wealthy would enrich them themselves with knowledge and education by literature. Not long after, in 1348 came the Plague or Black Death, which exterminated more than a third of the population. Around the mid-fourteenth century, the economic system set by William died out as people began to know what their life was valued and began to form a different society where everyone could advance in literature. Middle English was characterized by new ways of grammar and vocabulary. The difference between the grammars established in Middle and Old English would be the way it changed from illustrating no expression of grammatical structure, to establishing logical reasoning and analysis. This allowed people to understand each other in writing in order to fortify a signal language. Furthermore, vocabulary significantly has changed as Old English evolved into …show more content…
The invention of the printing press established a new way in which incorporated everyone, poor to rich, and allowed them to read books, poems, and works of literature. As a result, almost all of England’s population could read and write. The invention of the printing press also helped create a dictionary, in which people obtained a type of guide to spelling the word they used correctly. A new door of rebirth or Renaissance was opening for Britain, as a world of new ways of thought, culture, and different religious views in 1485. As a result, art was seen in a different new way with plays being the main form of entertainment. This caused people to become fond of literature, acquiring a need for scribes in order to attain more copies of documents to read. By 1530 almost about half of England’s population could read. Around this time King Henry VIII decided to divorce his wife since she could not conceive a male heir to his throne, but the Catholic Church strictly prohibited him from attaining divorce. As a result, the strict rules of the Catholic Church caused Henry to abandon the church and create a new and “better” church that would meet his needs of divorce and personal benefit. New form s of translating the Bible, King James Bible, was made due to the new establishment of Henry’s church. Henry dies in 1547, and in 1558 after a