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[2] 1362: September – Petrarch's library is donated to the Republic of Venice, although subsequently dispersed. 1368 The new Hongwu Emperor in China halts government taxation on books. The Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) is founded as the Royal Library at the Louvre Palace in Paris by Charles V of France ...
1400: Geoffrey Chaucer (born 1343 ), English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat Jan of Jenštejn (born 1348 ), Archbishop of Prague who was a poet, writer and composer
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] 1310–1314 – Roman de Fauvel written by Gervais de Bus and Chaillou de Pesstain, France.
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The term Middle English literature refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the late 12th century until the 1470s.. During this time the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, became widespread and the printing press regularized the langua
Patience (Middle English: Pacience) is a Middle English alliterative poem written in the late 14th century. Its unknown author, designated the "Pearl Poet" or "Gawain-Poet", also appears, on the basis of dialect and stylistic evidence, to be the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, and Cleanness (all ca. 1360–1395) and may have composed St. Erkenwald.
Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
"Maxims I" (sometimes treated as three separate poems, "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II" is located in a lesser known manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B i.