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1274: May 1 – In Florence, the nine-year-old Dante Alighieri first sees the eight-year-old Beatrice, his lifelong muse. [12] 1276 – Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use. [13]
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). The literature of this time ...
Early examples of Middle English literature are the Ormulum and Havelock the Dane. In the fourteenth century major works of English literature began once again to appear, including the works of Chaucer. The latter portion of the 14th century also saw the consolidation of English as a written language and a shift to secular writing.
Years of the 13th century in literature (1 C) \ Libraries established in the 13th century (3 P) 0–9. 1200s in literature (1 C) 1210s in literature (1 C)
Years of the 13th century by country (107 C) This page was last edited on 5 January 2025, at 01:15 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
A single example of a Classical romance has survived: a fragment of the story of Apollonius of Tyre was translated in the 11th century from the Gesta Romanorum. [ 71 ] [ 73 ] A monk who was writing in Old English at the same time as Ælfric and Wulfstan was Byrhtferth of Ramsey , whose book Handboc was a study of mathematics and rhetoric.
See Table of years in literature for an overview of all "year in literature" pages. Several attempts have been made to create a list of world literature. Among these are the great books project including the book series Great Books of the Western World, now containing 60 volumes. In 1998 Modern Library, an American publishing company, polled ...
Category: Years of the 13th century in literature. 1 language. ... 1275 in literature (1 C) This page was last edited on 14 March 2022, at 22:33 (UTC). ...