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The events inspire the late 16th century play The Life and Death of Jack Straw, [4] Robert Southey's dramatic poem Wat Tyler , [5] and novels such as Pierce Egan the Younger's Wat Tyler , [6] William Harrison Ainsworth's Merry England [7] and William Morris's A Dream of John Ball .
A musician plays the vielle in a 14th-century Medieval manuscript. Music was an important part of both secular and spiritual culture, and in the universities, it made up part of the quadrivium of the liberal arts. [167] From the early 13th century, the dominant sacred musical form had been the motet, a composition with text in several parts. [168]
Der Busant written in Middle High German, early 14th century; earliest surviving manuscript fragment c.1380. Lamentations of Mary, first recorded Hungarian language poem, is transcribed at the beginning of the century. Eric's Chronicle, written sometime between 1320 and 1332 by an unknown author, Sweden. [2]
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country).
Pages in category "14th-century literature" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Stylistically, the music of the ars nova differed from the preceding era in several ways. Developments in notation allowed notes to be written with greater rhythmic independence, shunning the limitations of the rhythmic modes which prevailed in the thirteenth century; secular music acquired much of the polyphonic sophistication previously found only in sacred music; and new techniques and ...
The latter portion of the 14th century also saw the consolidation of English as a written language and a shift to secular writing. In the late 15th century William Caxton printed four-fifths of his works in English, which helped to standardize the language and expand the vocabulary.
14th century in the arts (19 C, 3 P) B. 14th-century beginnings ... Pages in category "14th century" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.