Literature of England

This consists of a number of principally ecclesiastical and historical works, spanning a period of over a thousand years.

[1] Several more recent examples exist of English works written originally in Latin: Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More,[2] for example, and New Atlantis,[3] a utopian narrative by Sir Francis Bacon, published in Latin (as Nova Atlantis) in 1624 and in English in 1627.

[7] The Pèlerinage de Charlemagne (Eduard Koschwitz, Altfranzösische Bibliothek, 1883) was preserved only in an Anglo-Norman manuscript of the British Museum (now lost), if the author was a Parisian.

[8] The manuscript of La Chançun de Willame was published in facsimile in Chiswick in June 1903 (cf.

[9] Anglo-Jewish literature was written in the Middle Ages, and ended when the Edict of Expulsion took effect.