Sub-Roman Britain is the period of late antiquity on the island of Great Britain between the end of Roman rule and the Anglo-Saxon settlement.The term was originally used to describe archaeological remains found in fifth and sixth century sites that hinted at the decay of locally made wares from a previous higher standard under the Roman Empire.It is now used to …

Middle English is the form of English spoken roughly from the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066 until the end of the 15th century.. For centuries after the Conquest, the Norman kings and high-ranking nobles in England and to some extent elsewhere in the British Isles spoke Anglo-Norman, a variety of Old Norman, originating from a northern langue d'oïl dialect.