The problem of periodization in the history of English

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Across
  1. 2. The fourth period – from the later 14th c. till the end of the 15th – embraces the age of _____, the greatest English medieval writer and forerunner of the English Renaissance
  2. 3. The main dialect used in writing and literature was the mixed dialect of ______.
  3. 6. Traditional Periodisation divides ________ history into three periods
  4. 8. The local dialects were retreated and displaced by ______ English
  5. 10. ____ Saxon had gained supremacy over the other dialect
Down
  1. 1. Under Norman rule the official language in England was _____
  2. 4. The sixth period extends from the mid-17th c. to the close of the 18th c. In the history of the language it is often called “the age of normalization and correctness”, in the history of literature – the “_______” age.
  3. 5. The _____ period is called Early New English, lasted from the introduction of printing to the age of Shakespeare.
  4. 7. The _____ period, which may be termed Early Old English
  5. 9. The third period, known as Early Middle English, starts after 1066, the year of the _____ Conquest