Born in 1340-43, in the reign of Edward the III, when the 100 years war begins, probably in London. Important middle class family in constant touch with aristocracy. Only son of John Chaucer, rich wine merchant. Access to education (latin, french, important for...
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Florentine...
English Renaissance theatre derived from several medieval theatre traditions, such as the mystery plays that formed a part of religious festivals in England and other parts of Europe during the Middle Ages. The mystery plays were complex retellings of legends...
We can´t talk about politics in England in this century, without talking about France and Spain. At the beginning of the century, the throne of Spain is vacant, and both countries fight during the first thirteen years of the century to occupy this throne. The...
The 18th century in England is known as the Age of Reason or Age of Optimism. It is the time of the Enlightenment, an international intellectual movement related to the social and economic changes reflected in the appearance of a strong bourgeoisie. In the Enlightenment...
ORIGINS: The discontent of the colonies began to be truly obvious in the war fought between 1689 and 1763. At the end of this war England had acquired from France: Canada and all the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi, and from Spain Florida...
He was born in 1871 in New Jersey. He studied in the Universities of Lafayette and Siracuse. In 1890 he moved to NY to work as a reporter in the poorest suburbs, a work that together with his poverty would supply him with material for...
He was born in 1804 in Salem, Massachussets. He was a descendant of a long line of puritan rulers. As a child, he heard many different stories from this puritan past. One of his forefathers was the one that prosecuted the famous witches of Salem,...
The British tried to colonize America twice in the 16th century, but they only succeeded in 1607, when they founded Jamestown. However by general agreement, the Pilgrim Fathers who travelled on the Mayflower were to be the first settlers; they founded Plymouth...
England had resisted the ideological armies of revolutionary France for 20 years, but doing so she had entered a process of transformation. Outwardly, the world of politics looked resistant to change. Burke´s proposal to establish a real parlamentary system, hadn´t...