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{{Template}}'''Medieval literature''' is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in [[Europe]] and beyond during the [[Middle Ages]] (encompassing the one thousand years from the [[fall of the Roman Empire|fall of the Western Roman Empire]] ca. AD [[500]] to the beginning of the Florentine [[Renaissance]] in the late 15th century). The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as [[secular]] works. Just as in modern literature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly [[sacred]] to the exuberantly [[profane]], touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak in general terms without oversimplification, and thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genre. {{Template}}'''Medieval literature''' is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in [[Europe]] and beyond during the [[Middle Ages]] (encompassing the one thousand years from the [[fall of the Roman Empire|fall of the Western Roman Empire]] ca. AD [[500]] to the beginning of the Florentine [[Renaissance]] in the late 15th century). The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as [[secular]] works. Just as in modern literature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly [[sacred]] to the exuberantly [[profane]], touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak in general terms without oversimplification, and thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genre.
 +==Notable literature of the period==
 +*''[[Alexiad]]'', [[Anna Comnena]]
 +*''[[Digenis Acritas]]'', [[anonymous]] [[Greek literature|Greek author]]
 +*''[[Beowulf]]'', [[anonymous]] [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] author
 +*''[[Cantigas de Santa Maria]]'', [[Galician literature|Galician]] authors
 +*''[[David of Sassoun]]'' by an anonymous [[Armenia|Armenian]] author
 +*''[[Distichs of Cato|Cato]]'' (''Distichs of Cato''), [[Dionysius Cato]]
 +*''[[The Book of the City of Ladies]]'', [[Christine de Pizan]]
 +*''[[Book of the Civilized Man]]'', [[Daniel of Beccles]]
 +*''[[The Book of Good Love]]'', [[Juan Ruiz]]
 +*''[[The Book of Margery Kempe]]'', [[Margery Kempe]]
 +*''[[Brut (Layamon)|Brut]]'', [[Layamon]]
 +*''[[Roman de Brut|Brut]], [[Wace]]
 +*''[[Consolation of Philosophy]]'', [[Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius|Boethius]]
 +*''[[The Canterbury Tales]]'', [[Geoffrey Chaucer]]
 +*''[[Decameron]]'', [[Giovanni Boccaccio]]
 +*''[[The Dialogue]]'', [[Catherine of Siena]]
 +*''[[The Diseases of Women]]'', [[Trotula of Salerno]]
 +*''[[The Divine Comedy|La divina commedia]]'' (''The Divine Comedy''), [[Dante Alighieri]]
 +*''[[Dukus Horant]]'', the first extended work in Yiddish.
 +*''[[Elder Edda]]'', various [[Iceland|Icelandic]] authors
 +*''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]'', anonymous [[English people|English]] author
 +*''[[Heimskringla]]'', [[Snorri Sturluson]]
 +*''[[Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum]]'' ("The Ecclesiastical History of the English People"), the Venerable [[Bede]]
 +*''[[Hypnerotomachia Poliphili]]'', [[Francesco Colonna]]?
 +*''[[The Knight in the Panther Skin]]'', [[Shota Rustaveli]]
 +*''[[The Lais of Marie de France]]'', [[Marie de France]]
 +*''[[The Letters of Abelard and Heloise]]''
 +*''[[Das fließende Licht der Gottheit]]'', [[Mechthild of Magdeburg]]
 +*''[[Ludus de Antichristo]]'', anonymous [[Germany|German]] author
 +*''[[Mabinogion]]'', various [[Wales|Welsh]] authors
 +*''[[Metrical Dindshenchas]]'', [[Irish literature|Irish]] onomastic poems
 +*''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'', Sir [[Thomas Malory]]
 +*''[[Nibelungenlied]]'', anonymous [[Germany|German]] author
 +*''[[Njál's saga]]'', anonymous [[Iceland|Icelandic]] author
 +*''[[Parzival]]'', [[Wolfram von Eschenbach]]
 +*''[[Piers Plowman]]'', [[William Langland]]
 +*''[[Cantar de Mio Cid|Poem of the Cid]]'', anonymous [[Spain|Spanish]] author
 +*''[[Proslogion|Proslogium]]'', [[Anselm of Canterbury]]
 +*''[[Revelations of Divine Love]]'', [[Julian of Norwich]]
 +*''[[Roman de la Rose]]'', [[Guillaume de Lorris]] and [[Jean de Meun]]
 +*''[[Scivias]]'', [[Hildegard of Bingen]]
 +*''[[Sic et Non]]'', [[Abelard]]
 +*''[[The Song of Roland]]'', anonymous [[France|French]] author
 +*''[[Gertrude the Great|Spiritual Exercises]]'', [[Gertrude the Great]]
 +*''[[Summa Theologiae]]'', [[Thomas Aquinas]]
 +*''[[Táin Bó Cúailnge]]'', anonymous [[Ireland|Irish]] author
 +*''[[The Tale of Igor's Campaign]]'', anonymous [[Rus|Russian]] author
 +*''[[Tirant lo Blanc]]'', [[Joanot Martorell]]
 +*''[[The Travels of Marco Polo|Il milione]]'' (''The Travels of Marco Polo''), [[Marco Polo]]
 +*''[[Tristan]]'', [[Thomas d'Angleterre]]
 +*''[[Tristan]]'', [[Béroul]]
 +*''[[Triumphs]]'', [[Petrarch]]
 +*''[[Waltharius]]''
 +*''[[Younger Edda]]'', [[Snorri Sturluson]]
 +*''[[Yvain: The Knight of the Lion]]'', [[Chrétien de Troyes]]
 +*''[[Gesta Danorum]]'', [[Saxo Grammaticus]]
 +
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Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (encompassing the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Florentine Renaissance in the late 15th century). The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as well as secular works. Just as in modern literature, it is a complex and rich field of study, from the utterly sacred to the exuberantly profane, touching all points in-between. Because of the wide range of time and place it is difficult to speak in general terms without oversimplification, and thus the literature is best characterized by its place of origin and/or language, as well as its genre.

Notable literature of the period


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