Anglo Saxon/Anglo Norman/Middle English Authors

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Across
  1. 3. first printing press - 1450, Bible - 1456
  2. 7. commissions the Anglo Saxon Chronicles 871AD
  3. 11. Piers Plowman, The Pearl
  4. 12. Travels
  5. 13. versions of cycles of Arthurian romances written in Old French - Sir Tristam
  6. 15. Battle of Hastings, 1066 AD, Norman Conquest, Domesday Book census 1086 AD
  7. 17. Life of Alfred the Great, first life record of a layman
  8. 19. first morality play (fragment)
  9. 20. 700 AD - "final" composed form, 1000 AD - "final" written version
  10. 21. 1215 AD - epitome of the rights of the English people
  11. 23. History of the Britons, first mention of Arthur
  12. 24. Beowulf, Waldhere, Finnsburg, Widsith, The Wanderer, Doer's Lament, The Seafarer, The Wife's Complaint, The Husband's Message, Battle of Brunamburh
  13. 25. first book printed in English - Histories of Troy 1474, first printing press in Westminster, England - 1477, first book printed in England - Dicts and Sayings - 1477
Down
  1. 1. Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, Canterbury Tales
  2. 2. Ecclesiastical History of the English Church
  3. 4. The Owl and the Nightingale
  4. 5. Consolation of Philosophy
  5. 6. Hymns, first named poet in England 670 AD
  6. 7. Sir Eglamour, Sir Gawayne and the Greene Knight, Athelston
  7. 8. the Koran 633 AD
  8. 9. The Divine Comedy
  9. 10. The Decameron
  10. 14. History of the Kings of Britian, first elaborated account of Arthur
  11. 16. first complete morality play
  12. 18. sonnets to Laura
  13. 22. Morte D'Arthur