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'''Middle English''' or '''ME'''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Introduction to Middle English|last=Horobin|first=Simon|year=2016|location=Edinburgh}}</ref> is an older type of the [[English language]] that was spoken after the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman invasion]] in [[1066]] until the [[1500s]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDBF5TJZHzQC&dq=middle+english&pg=PP9|title=An Introduction to Middle English|last=Horobin|first=Simon|last2=Smith|first2=Jeremy J.|date=2002|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-521950-0|language=en}}</ref> It came from [[Old English]] after [[William the Conqueror]] came to [[England]] with his French nobles and stopped English from being taught in schools for a few hundred years. Over this time, English borrowed several [[Old French]] words and became part of the [[Anglo-Norman language]]. This period of the development was from the [[High Middle Ages]] to the [[Late Middle Ages]].

'''Middle English''' or '''ME'''<ref>{{Cite book|title=Introduction to Middle English|last=Horobin|first=Simon|year=2016|location=Edinburgh}}</ref> is an older type of the [[English language]] that was spoken after the [[Norman conquest of England|Norman invasion]] in [[1066]] until the [[1500s]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LDBF5TJZHzQC&dq=middle+english&pg=PP9|title=An Introduction to Middle English|last=Horobin|first=Simon|last2=Smith|first2=Jeremy J.|date=2002|publisher=OUP USA|isbn=978-0-19-521950-0|language=en}}</ref> It came from [[Old English]] after [[William the Conqueror]] came to [[England]] with his French nobles and stopped English from being taught in schools for a few hundred years. Over this time, English borrowed several [[Old French]] words and became part of the [[Anglo-Norman language]]. This period of the development was from the [[High Middle Ages]] to the [[Late Middle Ages]].

In the [[1470s]], the ''Chancery Standard,'' a type of English spoken in [[London]], started to become more common. This was partly because [[William Caxton]] brought the [[printing press]] to England in the 1470s. The type of English that people spoke in England between then and 1650 is called [[Early Modern English]]. There were many different [[dialect]]s of Middle English.

In the [[1470s]], the [[Chancery Standard]], a type of English spoken in [[London]], started to become more common. This was partly because [[William Caxton]] brought the [[printing press]] to England in the 1470s. The type of English that people spoke in England between then and 1650 is called [[Early Modern English]]. There were many different [[dialect]]s of Middle English.

[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote [[The Canterbury Tales]] in Middle English.

[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'' in Middle English.

== Middle English Media ==

== Middle English Media ==

* [[Middle English literature]]

* [[Middle English literature]]

** [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]

** [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]

*** [[The Canterbury Tales]]

*** ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''

* [[Mirie it is while sumer ilast]], the earliest non-religious song in the English language, dating to ca. 1250 AD.

* ''[[Mirie it is while sumer ilast]]'', the earliest non-religious song in the English language, dating to ca. 1250 AD.

== Sources ==

== Sources ==

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