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| 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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