1. Norman Conquest
   1. Literature in French and Latin
   2. New architecture
   3. Powerful Church
   4. Greek and Roman effect
   5. Nationalism
      1. Due to war with France
   6. Rising middle class
   7. Plague
      1. Less labor force, more wage demand : Peasants Revolt
2. Romance vs. Epic
3. Religious People
   1. Julian of Norwich
      1. Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love
   2. John Wycliffe
      1. attack on Church
      2. Lollards
      3. Bible in 1382 and 1395
   3. Mergery Kampe
4. Geoffrey of Monmounth
   1. History of Kings of Britain
5. Wace
   1. Roman de Brut
6. Thomas Malory
   1. Morte Darthur
      1. From french sources
7. Alliterative Revival in Poetry
   1. Gawain Poet
      1. Sir Gawain
         1. Allegory
         2. Virtues of Knight
   2. The Pearl Poet
      1. Pearl : a dream allegory lamenting the death of author's daughter
   3. William Langland
      1. Piers Plowman
         1. Satirical
         2. Dream vision
8. Chaucer
   1. French Period
      1. The Book of Duchess
      2. The Parliament of Fowls
      3. Roman de la Rose
      4. Allegorical Elegy
   2. Italian Period
      1. Troilus and Cressida
      2. The House of Fame
      3. The Legend of Good Women
   3. English Period : Canterbury Tales
      1. inspired from Boccaccio's Decameron
      2. General Prologue
         1. 31 prigrims
         2. 21 of them described here
      3. Key Tales
9. Plays
   1. History
      1. Early drama in Church
      2. Church drama becomes popular
      3. Drama outside the the church
   2. Mystery Plays
   3. Miracle Plays
   4. Morality Plays
      1. Everyman
      2. The Castle of Perseverance
      3. Mankind
      4. Magnyfycence
      5. The Second Shephards Play