What are some british authors of the middle ages period?

Answer 1

Cædmon - 7th century
The Venerable Bede - 7th century
Alfred the Great - 9th century
Cynewulf - Anglo-Saxon, exact dates unknown
(There are 8 other named Anglo-Saxon poets of whom little is known, plus numerous authors who didn't sign their work.)

Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1100 – c.1155)
Wace (c. 1115 – c. 1183)
Thomas of Britain - Anglo-Norman poet, 12th century
Robert Biket - Anglo-Norman poet, 12th century
Hugh of Rutland - 12th century
(There is also a whole wack of Anglo-Norman didatic (teaching material) writings, and various biographies of kings and saints. The authors of all of these would be too numerous to list here)

Eustace of Kent - 13th century
Geoffrey of Waterford - 13th century
Peter of Langtoft - 14th century
William Langland - 14ht century
The Gawain Poet (name unknown) -14th century
John Gower - 14th century
Thomas Occleve - 14th/15th century
John Lydgate - 15th century
Thomas Malory - 15th century
William Caxton - 15h century

...and: Geoffery Chaucer (14th century) the most famous medieval author from Britian

Answer 2

Chaucer and Malory come to mind.

Answer 3

GEOFFREY CHAUCER, English poet. The name Chaucer, a French form of the Latin calcearius, a shoemaker, is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century. Some of the London Chaucers lived in Cordwainer Street, in the shoemakers' quarter; several of them, however, were vintners, and among others the poet's father John, and probably also his grandfather Robert. Legal pleadings inform us that in December 1324 John Chaucer was not much over twelve years old, and that he was still unmarried in 1328, the year which used to be considered that of Geoffrey's birth. The poet was probably born from eight to twelve years later, since in 1386, when giving evidence in Sir Richard le Scrope's suit against Sir Robert Grosvenor as to the right to bear certain arms, he was set down as "del age de xl ans et plus, armeez par xxvij ans." At a later date, and probably at the time of the poet's birth, his father lived in Thames Street, and had to wife a certain Agnes, niece of Hamo de Compton, whom we may regard as Geoffrey Chaucer's mother.
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Miniature Portrait of Gower.
British Museum, Egerton MS. 1991
John Gower, poet and friend of Chaucer, was born around 1330, into a prominent Yorkshire family which held properties in Kent, Yorkshire, Norfolk and Suffolk. Gower's coat of arms is identical to those of Sir Robert Gower of Brabourne. Nothing is known of his education, though it has been speculated that he was trained in law. Gower himself held properties in Suffolk and Kent, where he seems to have resided until taking up residence in the priory of St. Mary Overies in Southwark, London, around 1377.
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WILLIAM LANGLAND, the supposed English poet, generally regarded until recently as the single author of the remarkable 14th-century poem Piers the Plowman. Its full title is - The Vision of William concerning Piers the Plowman, together with Vita de Do-wel, Do-bet, et Do-best, secundum Wit et Resoun; usually given in Latin as Visio Willelmi de Petro Plowman, &c.; the whole work being sometimes briefly described as Liber de Petro Plowman. We know nothing of William Langland except from the supposed evidence of the MSS. of the poem and the text itself, and it will be convenient first to give a brief general description of them.
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Juliana of Norwich (nôr'ich) [key], d. c.1443, English religious writer, an anchoress, or hermit, of Norwich called Mother (or Dame) Juliana or Julian. Her work, completed c.1393, Revelations of Divine Love, is an expression of mystical fervor in the form of 16 visions of Jesus. Dominant ideas are the great love of God for men and the detestable character of human sin. She is considered one of the greatest English mystics.
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Kempe, Margery (kemp) [key], d. 1438 or afterward, English religious writer, b. King's Lynn. She was the wife of a prominent citizen and the mother of 14 children. Her autobiography, The Book of Margery Kempe (complete ed. 1940; ed. with modern spelling 1944), was known only in small excerpts until 1934, when the whole was discovered. She was a religious enthusiast whose loud weeping in church and reproof of her neighbors kept her in public disfavor. She traveled abroad as a pilgrim, and her work has rich details of the everyday life of her time. The narrative is occasionally interrupted with visions, prayers, and meditations, many of them of great beauty. The book may be the earliest autobiography in English.
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