1. A Living Language: evolving for 1500 years and counting
The English Language
A Living Language:
evolving for 1500 years and counting

3. pre-English: Celtic and Latin on the Island of Britain
bronze age to 449 CE

4. Celtic cultural change in Europe

5. surviving Celtic cultures in Great Britain Ireland Scotland Wales Cornwall

6. Roman Empire CE

7. Roman Britain

8. Old English CE

9. migration of Germanic Tribes: Angles, Saxons, & Jutes 449 CE

10. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms 600 CE

11. Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms 830 CE

12. Anglo-Saxon village life

13. Anglo-Saxon homes

14. Anglo-Saxon social hierarchy
kings (5 kingdoms)
eoldermen & thanes
freemen
bondsmen & slaves
Anglo-Saxon social hierarchy

15. Anglo-Saxon village life

16. Dane & Viking Raids CE

17. Alfred the Great King of Wessex & unifier of Anglo-Saxons 871-899 CE

18. England after the Treaty of Wedmore 879-880 CE

19. British Isles 885 CE

20. Middle English CE

21. William the Conqueror King of England & Duke of Normandy 1066-1087 CE

22. Norman Conquest CE

23. territory of William the Conqueror 1087 CE

24. Norman-French Feudalism
King
nobility & knights
peasants
Norman-French Feudalism

25. Life for Anglo-Saxons in the Middle Ages

26. The Church in Medieval England

27. The Nobility in Medieval England

28. Medieval English manor

29. marker at the port of Weymouth

30. Black Plague in EnglandCE

31. Black Plague in Europe

32. Society after the Black Plague
King
nobility & knights
middle class (skilled workers)
lower class (laborers)
Society after the Black Plague

33. Medieval English town

34. Loss of Normandy circa 1204 CE

35. Hundred Years’ War: England vs. France 1337-1453

36. King John
Magna Carta CE

37. Hundred Years’ War: England vs. France 1337-1453

38. Modern English
1500-present CE

39. Renaissance Trade Routes

40. Printing Press William Caxton
1476

41. Exploration & Colonization

42. British Empire CE

43. British Empire CE

44. British Empire CE

45. Isaac Newton’s telescope
observed Haley’s Comet
Dec. 1682

46. CE
small pox
Dr. Edward Jenner