The Middle Ages 476 CE - 15th century (jan 1, 476 – jan 1, 1400)
Description:
Genre: EpicBeowulf - dated between 8th century and the early 11th century
Famous authours and their works:
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400): The Canterbury Tales (dated around the 14th century).
The genre of The Canterbury Tales is hard to pin down. It is certainly poetry—other than the two prose tales Tale of Melibee and the Parson's Tale, the work is written in rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter.
Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 476
jan 1, 1400
~ 924 years