Middle English (abbreviated to ME[1]) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.

With the Medieval Translator, thou canst transform thine modern words into the rich tapestry of Medieval English! This tool captures the essence of the language once spoken in fields and villages, where everyday survival shaped every phrase.

Old English language, language spoken and written in England before 1100; it is the ancestor of Middle English and Modern English. Scholars place Old English in the Anglo-Frisian group of West Germanic languages. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.)

2024年4月3日 · Anglo-Norman French became the language of the kings and nobility of England for more than 300 years (Henry IV, who came to the English throne in 1399, was the first monarch since before the Conquest to have English as his mother tongue).

2020年11月19日 · Bulk up your Middle English knowledge! Explore examples of Middle English words and their meanings. Check out famous texts written in Middle English too.

In terms of ‘external’ history, Middle English is framed at its beginning by the after-effects of the Norman Conquest of 1066, and at its end by the arrival in Britain of printing (in 1476) and by the important social and cultural impacts of the English Reformation (from the 1530s onwards) and of the ideas of the continental Renaissance.

The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies.

Welcome to the electronic Middle English Dictionary. The print MED, completed in 2001, has been described as “the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America.”

2025年1月8日 · English language - Middle Ages, Dialects, Grammar: One result of the Norman Conquest of 1066 was to place all four Old English dialects more or less on a level. West Saxon lost its supremacy, and the centre of culture and learning gradually shifted …

• Concise Dictionary of Middle English (from 1150 to 1580) by Anthony Mayhew & Walter Skeat (1888) or text version. • Middle English dictionary (12 th -15 th century) by Francis Henry Stratmann & Henry Bradley (1891) • Catholicon Anglicum, an English-Latin wordbook dated 1483, edited by Sidney Herrtage (1881)