Middle English (abbreviated to ME [1]) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century. The English language underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.

2024年4月3日 · The event that began the transition from Old English to Middle English was the Norman Conquest of 1066, when William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy and, later, William I of England) invaded the island of Britain from his home base in northern France, and settled in his new acquisition along with his nobles and court.

2025年2月6日 · Middle English language, the vernacular spoken and written in England from about 1100 to about 1500, the descendant of the Old English language and the ancestor of Modern English. (Read H.L. Mencken’s 1926 Britannica essay on American English.) The history of Middle English is often divided into

中古英语（英語： Middle English ）是指英格兰王国在中世纪中 后期——即从公元1066年诺曼征服英格兰开始到1489年都铎王朝建立结束期间的金雀花王朝时期——所通用的英语 变种。

The world's largest searchable database of Middle English lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500. An invaluable resource for lexicographers, language scholars, and all scholars in medieval studies.

中古英语(Middle English)是指1150年到1500年间所使用的英语。 这个时期的英语和古英语相比，在读音和拼写，词汇和语法方面都产生了较大的变化。 一大部分古英语词汇被淘汰，转而吸收了很多法语和拉丁语的词汇。

In terms of ‘external’ history, Middle English is framed at its beginning by the after-effects of the Norman Conquest of 1066, and at its end by the arrival in Britain of printing (in 1476) and by the important social and cultural impacts of the English Reformation (from the 1530s onwards) and of the ideas of the continental Renaissance.

Middle English or ME [1] is an older type of the English language that was spoken after the Norman invasion in 1066 until the 1500s. [2] It came from Old English after William the Conqueror came to England with his French nobles and stopped English from being

2019年3月2日 · Here are the characteristics of Middle English, the language spoken in England from about 1100 to 1500.

2025年2月28日 · the English language as written and spoken between c. 1100 and c. 1500, preceded by Old English and followed by Early Modern English: it is characterized by the loss of grammatical gender and most of the inflectional endings of Old English, by the emergence of a syntax based on word order and function words, by the simplification of the pronominal system, and by extensive vocabulary borrowings ...