TABLE III.—FROM NORMAN CONQUEST TO CHAUCER-Continued Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, "Topographia Hiberniæ." Friars land in England, 1221. "Mort Artus." Roger Bacon, 1214-1292 (?). The Barons' War, battles of Lewes and "Opus Majus," 1268. Grocyn teaches Greek at Oxford, 1491. Sir Thomas Malory, middle of fif Henry VII., 1485-1509. Linacre at Oxford, cir. 1491. Erasmus in England, 1497. Henry VIII., 1509-1547. Savonarola, 1452-1498. Gutenberg prints Mazarin Bible, cir. 1453. Constantinople taken, 1453. Lorenzo de' Medici reigns in Florence; Artists: |