Sir Walter Raleigh

 

Sir Walter Raleigh was a sailor, pirate, English writer and politician, who popularized the snuff in Europe. In Spanish classical literature was known as Guantarral.

Ally from the beginning to the side of Queen Elizabeth I, fought tenaciously against the Irish rebels, conceived the project of colonizing North America, founded in 1584 the colony of Virginia (the first map was drawn by the mathematician Thomas Harriot, who accompanied him) contributed to the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and fought to restore the throne to the king of Portugal (1589).

Raleigh was made governor of Jersey during the pariod 1600-1603, and was responsible for modernizing the defenses of the island. He called the new fort in St. Helier Fort Isabella Bellissima, known later as Elizabeth Castle. Participated in a second expedition to the Orinoco in search of the mythical El Dorado.

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales (in English, The Canterbury Tales) is a work of English writer Geoffrey Chaucer, which has a structure similar to the Decameron of Boccaccio. The stories were written during the fourteenth century.

The Canterbury Tales is one of the most important works of English literature, and perhaps the best work of the Middle Ages in England. It was the last work of Geoffrey Chaucer. The version of the work that prevails today is derived from two different English manuscripts: the Ellesmere and Hengwrt manuscripts.

The stories, sritten in Middle English (some original, some not, two prose writings, and the rest in verse), are contained in a larger narrative and are counted by a group of pilgrims traveling from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the temple of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.

Literature  in the english middle ages

The language of these people emigrants, up the beginnings of English (English Literature begins). Before these people came (450 AD) had a population and a Celtic language. On the one hand there is the Anglo-Saxon and the other the British (Celtic). In S. VI, Gildas makes cryonics Latin discovering this period.

In the year 1066 (Middle English period), there is the conquest of England by the Normans. The Duke of Normandy, William the Conqueror landed in southern England, in Hastings, where there is a battle in which William wins. From there, settle the Normans in England. These have power on the island during the following centuries. Therefore speak French and Latin. Until S. XIII is not about anything written in English, or is an Englishman who has variations and some French influences. The modern English has a Germanic base and also a lot important French influence.

The Bayeux Tapestry

The Bayeux Tapestry also known as Tapestry of Queen Mathilde is a large canvas embroi`ery, a unique piece of art of the eleventh century, which relates by a sequence of images with inscriptions in Latin the events preceding the conquest of England by the Normans, in commemoration of the Battle of Hastings. Since the 1980's, the original is preserved and exhibited in the Centre William the Conqueror in the city of Bayeux, in Normandy and has been submitted for registration in 2007 in the Unesco Programme Memory of World.

The battle of hasting

This Battle occurred on 14 October 1066. It was a fight between Norman-French army and the English army. The pace of the battle was Senlac Hill. It is a very important battle because it had a lot of consequences. William crushed any resistance up to London, where he was crowned King of the England on 1066. Most British English kings and then have continued this tradition.

England, especially in the north and center, was devastated during the nine years following the wars between the Normans and Saxons William, supported again by the Danes. Finally, the now King William the 8span class="hps">Conqueror took full control of the kingdom<+span> and introduced many reforms in England, the image of the then prevailing in France and countries around. The lands of the Saxon nobles who refused to subject were divided among the Norman knights of the king who came to administer as feudal lords. He also built many castles in England, 14 built both by function as bulwarks against Scots (beaten and subjected to servitude by William in 1072) and Welsh, as tools to more effectively bring the English people.