Old English, also known as Anglo-Saxon, was the language spoken in England from the Germanic invasions in the 5th century until the twelfth century. To a modern reader it looks like a foreign language, and it shares many features with German, including a four-case noun declension, grammatical gender, and strong and weak adjective declensions. An example of a text in Old English is the anonymous epic poem Beowulf, which begins: Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga þrym gefrunon
hu ða æþelingas Ellen fremedon.
Middle English, which developed from Old English with significant influece from Norman French, was spoken between the twelfth century and the great vowel shift, which began in the mid-fifteenth century. Middle English had a simplified grammar and a much more familiar look, but it would have sounded quite different from modern English by virtue of its vowels, which still had their European values (e.g., long 'i' was pronounced like modern English long 'e', as in French or Spanish). A representative Middle English text is Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales:
Whan that Aprille with hise shoures soote,
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote,
And bathed every veyne in switch licour
Of which virtu engendred is the flour . . .
Modern English is the form of English spoken since about the middle of the fifteenth century, encompassing both Shakespeare (Early Modern English, c. 1450-1650) and the contemporary language. A representative Early Modern English text is William Shakespeare's Sonnet XVIII:
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date . . .
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They were the same thing. Medieval means of the Middle Ages.
They are not the same now
The middle colonies had a more diverse population -apex!!
The Greater Middle East includes all of the countries of the Middle East plus North Africa, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Cyprus, and parts of the Horn of Africa.
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Middle English incorporates influences from French.
old English comes mainly from the angles of Germany but middle English has french influences from the Norman conquest
In English literature, middle age typically refers to the period of life between youth and old age, often characterized by maturity, responsibilities, and self-reflection. Middle age is a common theme in literature, explored through the lens of characters navigating challenges such as career changes, relationships, and societal expectations.
Is the same as the difference between middle and center
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Geoffrey Chaucer's nickname was the "father of English literature" due to his significant contributions to English poetry during the Middle Ages.
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