Period in the history of England, which began in the V century with the withdrawal of Roman troops from the province of Roman Britain and the invasion of the Germans [1], and ended in the XVI century. Initially, Britain was not a centralized state, but consisted of independent kingdoms. The unification of those territories that formerly belonged to the Roman Empire was completed only after the end of the Middle Ages, [2] but most of them were part of England already in the High Middle Ages.
The Middle Ages in Britain began with the arrival of Anglo-Saxon troops headed by Hengist and Horsa in Kent. Subsequently, the British and Celtic forces were defeated by the Utes, the Angles and the Saxons [3], who came from northern Germany and Denmark, but completely England was captured only by the 10th century.
The end of the Middle Ages in England is the period of the reign of Henry VIII [4], which is often called the English Renaissance, and the beginning of the reform of Scotland. From a political point of view, the Norman Conquest divides the Middle Ages in Britain into two periods of political and cultural history. At the same time, it was during this period that there was a transition from Old English to Middle English. [5]