I find having a list of English and French Monarchs handy is a good idea when trying to place an explorer or event within a certain era. This is a simple list of the various “Houses” that ruled the kingdoms from the time of John Cabot in 1490s to the 1800s (1700s for France). French Sovereigns (1519 to 1774) House of Valois (1515 - 1547) Francis I (1547 - 1559) Henry II ...
I wrote a little poem called The Canon during my university days. A Canon typically defines the acceptable, standard set of literature for a specific genre. English Literature in academia has an accepted list of stories, poems and plays which an English Lit student must read to understand Western culture and civilization. As required by my professors, I used my dog-eared Norton Anthology of English Literature to analyze Shakespeare, Milton, Woodsworth, Shelly, Faulkner, and a hundred other famous writers in the Anglo-Saxon world. ...
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