Episode 121: English Ascent
The History of English Podcast
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The Transitional Phase of Middle English Literature
With the ascent of English, there was no longer any room for the Anglo-Norman dialect. It was ridiculed in Paris as Bad French and most people in England agreed with that sentiment. Geoffrey Chaucer composed his Canterbury Tales a few years later using only English. Most of the greatest works of Middle English literature were composed over the next generation.
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