Michaelmas term Michaelmas term Michaelmas term is the first academic term of the academic year in a number of English-speaking universities and schools in the northern hemisphere, especially in the United Kingdom. Michaelmas term derives its name from the Feast of St Michael and All Angels, which falls on 29 September. The term runs from September or October to Christmas. The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland. While the name is not used in the legal systems
Welsh literature in English and Welsh. Welsh writing in English might be said to begin with the fifteenth-century bard Ieuan ap Hywel Swrdwal (?1430 - ?1480), whose "Hymn to the Virgin" was written at Oxford in England in about 1470 and uses a Welsh poetic form, the "awdl", and Welsh orthography; for example: A rival claim for the first Welsh writer to use English creatively is made for the poet, John Clanvowe (1341–1391). Clanvowe's best-known work was "The Book of Cupid, God of Love" or "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale". which is influenced by Chaucer's "Parliament of Fowls". "The Cuckoo and the Nightingale" had