THE WICKED AGE
MIDDLE ENGLISH COMPLAINT LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Literary Chronology
Dating the literature is often difficult, and many of the dates below are scholars’ approximations. Works in the collection for which no dates are available have not been included in this list.
c. 1300 Song of the Husbandman
c. 1320 Birth of John Wyclif (d. 1384)
c. 1330 Birth of John Gower (d. 1408)
Auchinleck Manuscript
1330? Birth of William Langland (d. 1386?)
c. 1343 Birth of Chaucer (d.1400)
1357 Defensio Curatorum, Richard FitzRalph
c. 1367-70 Piers Plowman A-text, William Langland
c. 1369 Birth of Thomas Hoccleve (d. 1426)
1377 The Death of Edward III
1377-79 Piers Plowman B-text
1379 Wycliffite Bible translation
c. 1379-81 Vox Clamantis, John Gower
1381 On the Evil State of England
John Ball’s Letters
1382 Insurrection and the Earthquake
c. 1385-86 Piers Plowman C-text
c. 1387 Prologue to The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
(Tales written earlier and later)
1392 The Yorkshire Partisans
c. 1395 Pierce the Plowman’s Creed
c. 1400 On the King’s Ministers
The Plowman’s Tale
1401 Truth, Rest and Peace
1405 London Lickpenny
1411-12 Regiment of Princes, Thomas Hoccleve
1413 God Save the King and Keep the Crown!
1415 Address to Sir John Oldcastle, Thomas Hoccleve
The Crowned King
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