Greatest Lit Home Editor Eric Toronto Reads Unsolvable Mysteries Skepticism

Middle Ages to the Renaissance
701 to 1500 C.E.

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Date Title Author Country Type
c.759 Anthology of a Myriad Leaves Kakinomoto no Hitomaro
and others
Japan Poetry
c.991 The Battle of Maldon Anonymous England Poetry
c.1000 The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon Sei Shonagon Japan Diary
The Thousand and One Nights Anonymous Persia Stories
1000
-1300
The Poetic Edda Anonymous Iceland Poetry
c.1010 The Book of Kings Abolgasem Persia Stories
c.1020 The Tale of Genji Murasaki Shikibu Japan Prose narrative
c.1100 Rubáiyát Omar Khayyam Persia Poetry
Song of Roland Anonymous France Poetry
c.1100
  -1250
Volsungsaga Anonymous Iceland Poetry
c.1140 The Poem of the Cid Anonymous Spain Poetry
c.1145 King Rother Anonymous Germany Poetry
c.1177
  -1181
Launcelot Chrétien de Troyes France Poetry
c.1180 Lais Marie de France France Poetry
1181-90 Perceval Chrétien de Troyes France Poetry
c.1190 The Conference of the Birds Farid od-Din Attar Persia Poetry
c.1200 The Nibelungenlied Anonymous Germany Poetry
The Prose Edda Snorri Sturlson Iceland Prose narrative
c.1200
  -1210
Parzival Wolfram von Eschenbach Germany Poetry
1210 Tristan und Isolde Gottfied von Strassburg Germany Poetry
1220 The Tale of the Heike Anonymous Japan Prose narrative
1230-75 Romance of the Rose Guillaume de Lorris, Jean de Meun France Poetry
c.1250 The Saga of Burnt Njal Anonymous Iceland Poetry
Mathnawi Jalal od-Din Rumi Persia Poetry
c.1270 The Garden of Roses Musharrif od-Din Sadi Persia Poetry
1294 The New Life Alighieri Dante Italy Poetry and prose
1307 The Divine Comedy Alighieri Dante Italy Poetry
1327 Le Rime Francesco Petrarch Italy Poetry
1348 Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Poetry
c.1350 Diwan Mohammad Shams od-Din Hafiz Persia Poetry
1352 The Triumphs Giovanni Boccaccio Italy Poetry
c. 1360
  -1400
Romance of Three Kingdoms Luo Guanzhong China Novel
Outlaws of the Marsh Luo Guanzhong China Novel
1362 The Vision of Piers the Ploughman William Langland England Poetry
1385-87 Troilus and Cressida Geoffrey Chaucer England Poetry
1387 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Anonymous England Poetry
1387-90s The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer England Poetry
c.1400 Atsumori Zeami Motokiyo Japan Drama
1461 The Great Testament François Villon France Poetry
1485 Everyman Anonymous England Drama
Le Morte Darthur Thomas Malory England Poetry
1486 Orlando Innamorato Matteo Maria Boiardo Italy Poetry
1492 Prison of Love Diego de San Pedro Spain Novel
1494 Narrenschiff Sebastian Brant Germany Poetry
1499 La Celestina Fernando de Rojas Spain Novel
 

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