MEDIEVAL PERIOD (jan 1, 1200 – dec 25, 1300)

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The only type of medieval literary production exempted from these romanticizing tendencies was the family and historical prose saga developed in Iceland at the end of the12th and early 13th century.

This period can boast of Britain’s Arthurian legends, France’s Chanson de Roland, Icelander’s Sagas, Germany’s Dr. Schwanritter, and Spain’s Amadis de Gauia.

At the beginning of the 13th century, sentimental romances with an adventurous or pseudo historical contribution of this period is John Wycliffe’s translation of the Bible in English. The most gifted writer of the medieval noon, however, was the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, who wrote, among other great works, The Canterbury Tales.

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