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33 relations: Adelbert von Keller, Chivalric romance, Francis Douce, Francization, Frederic Madden, Fridolin of Säckingen, Friedrich Schiller, Geoffrey Chaucer, Giovanni Boccaccio, Guy of Warwick, Harleian Library, Hélinand of Froidmont, Henry George Bohn, John Gower, Joseph Warton, King Lear, Latin, Le Bone Florence of Rome, Margaret Schlauch, Matter of Rome, Pierre Bersuire, Pierre Gustave Brunet, Saint Eustace, Sir Isumbras, St John's College, Cambridge, The History of English Poetry, The Man of Law's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Thomas Hoccleve, Thomas Parnell, Ulrich Zell, William Shakespeare, Wynkyn de Worde.
Adelbert von Keller
Adelbert von Keller (5 July 1812 – 13 March 1883) was a German philologist.
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Chivalric romance
As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
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Francis Douce
Francis Douce (175730 March 1834) was an English antiquary.
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Francization
Francization or Francisation (in Canadian English and American English), Frenchification (in British and also in American English), or Gallicization designates the extension of the French language by its adoption as a first language or not, adoption that can be forced upon or desired by the concerned population.
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Frederic Madden
Sir Frederic Madden KH (16 February 1801 – 8 March 1873) was an English palaeographer.
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Fridolin of Säckingen
Saint Fridolin, otherwise Fridolin of Säckingen is a legendary Irish missionary, apostle of the Alamanni and founder of Säckingen Abbey on the Upper Rhine.
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Friedrich Schiller
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German poet, philosopher, physician, historian, and playwright.
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Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343 – 25 October 1400), known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages.
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Giovanni Boccaccio (16 June 1313 – 21 December 1375) was an Italian writer, poet, correspondent of Petrarch, and an important Renaissance humanist.
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Guy of Warwick
Guy of Warwick, or Gui de Warewic, is a legendary English hero of Romance popular in England and France from the 13th to 17th centuries.
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Harleian Library
The Harleian Library, Harley Collection, Harleian Collection and other variants (Bibliotheca Harleiana) is one of the main "closed" collections of the British Library in London (formerly the library of the British Museum).
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Hélinand of Froidmont
Hélinand of Froidmont (c. 1150—after 1229 (probably 1237)) was a medieval poet, chronicler, and ecclesiastical writer.
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Henry George Bohn
Henry George Bohn (4 January 179622 August 1884) was a British publisher.
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John Gower
John Gower (c. 1330 – October 1408) was an English poet, a contemporary of William Langland and the Pearl Poet, and a personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Joseph Warton
Joseph Warton (April 1722 – 23 February 1800) was an English academic and literary critic.
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King Lear
King Lear is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Le Bone Florence of Rome
Le Bone Florence of Rome is a medieval English chivalric romance.
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Margaret Schlauch
Margaret Schlauch (September 25, 1898 – July 19, 1986) was a scholar of medieval studies at New York University and then after she left the United States for political reasons in 1951, at the University of Warsaw, where she headed the departments of English and General Linguistics.
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Matter of Rome
According to the medieval poet Jean Bodel, the Matter of Rome was the literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology, together with episodes from the history of classical antiquity, focusing on military heroes like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar.
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Pierre Bersuire
Pierre Bersuire (c. 1290–1362), also known as Pierre Bercheure and Pierre Berchoire (in Latin, Petrus Berchorius or Petrus Bercorius), was a French author of the Middle Ages.
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Pierre Gustave Brunet
Pierre Gustave Brunet (18 November 1805 – 24 January 1896) was a French bibliographer, historian and editor.
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Saint Eustace
Saint Eustace, also known as Eustachius or Eustathius in Latin, is revered as a Christian martyr and soldier saint.
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Sir Isumbras
Sir Isumbras is a medieval metrical romance written in Middle English and found in no fewer than nine manuscripts dating to the fifteenth century.
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St John's College, Cambridge
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge (the full, formal name of the college is The Master, Fellows and Scholars of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge).
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The History of English Poetry
The History of English Poetry, from the Close of the Eleventh to the Commencement of the Eighteenth Century (1774-1781) by Thomas Warton was a pioneering and influential literary history.
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The Man of Law's Tale
The Man of Law's Tale is the fifth of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, written around 1387.
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The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a 16th-century play written by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in Venice must default on a large loan provided by a Jewish moneylender.
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Thomas Hoccleve
Thomas Hoccleve or Occleve (c. 1368–1426) was an English poet and clerk who has been seen as a key figure in 15th-century Middle English literature.
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Thomas Parnell
Thomas Parnell (11 September 1679 – 24 October 1718) was an Anglo-Irish poet and clergyman who was a friend of both Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift.
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Ulrich Zell
Ulrich Zell (died c.1507) was the first printer in Cologne.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
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Wynkyn de Worde
Wynkyn de Worde (died 1534) was a printer and publisher in London known for his work with William Caxton, and is recognised as the first to popularise the products of the printing press in England.
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