MIDDLE AGES
LITERATURE
♀ Al-Khansa, Poems (640).
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro, Poems (700).
Wang Wei, Poems (759).
Li Bai, Poems (762).
Du Fu, Poems (770).
Wei Yingwu, Poems (792).
Abu Nuwas, Poems (814).
Bai Juyi, Poems (842).
Al-Mutanabbi, Poems (965).
♀ Hrotsvitha von Gandersheim, Abraham (973).
Ferdowsi, The Book of Kings (1010).
♀ Sei Shōnagon, The Pillow Book (1010).
♀ Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (1020).
Turold, The Song of Roland (1100).
Su Shi, Poems (1101).
Omar Khayyam, Quatrains (1122).
William IX of Aquitaine, Songs (1127).
Cercamon, Funeral Lament (1137).
Jaufré Rudel, Songs (1147).
Marcabru, Songs (1150).
Bernard de Ventadour, Songs (1152).
Gautier d’Arras, Eracle (1154).
Li Qingzhao, Poems (1155).
Wace, The Romance of Brut (1155).
Benoît de Sainte-Maure, The Romance of Troy (1165).
Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion (1176).
♀ Marie de France, Lais (1180).
Béroul, Tristan and Iseult (1180).
Thomas of England, The Romance of Tristan (1180).
Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube, Girard de Vienne (1180).
Bertrand de Born, Funeral Lament (1180).
Walter of Châtillon, Alexandreid (1182).
Alexander of Bernay, Romance of Alexander (1185).
Joseph of Exeter, On the Trojan War (1185).
Heinrich von Veldecke, Songs (1185).
Renaud de Beaujeu, The Fair Unknown (1185).
Arnaud de Mareuil, Songs (1190).
Gace Brulé, Songs (1190).
Conon de Béthune, Songs (1190).
Richard I of England, Songs (1194).
Arnaud Daniel, Songs (1195).
Hélinand de Froidmont, Verses of Death (1195).
Hartmann von Aue, Poor Heinrich (1195).
♀ Comtessa de Dia, Songs (1200).
Raimbert de Paris, Ogier the Dane (1200).
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Songs (1201).
Guy de Thourotte, Songs (1203).
Jean Bodel, The Farewells (1205).
Shota Rustaveli, The Knight in the Panther’s Skin (1210).
Reinmar von Hagenau, Songs (1210).
Gottfried von Straßburg, Tristan (1210).
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Percival (1210).
Jean Renart, Guillaume de Dole (1210).
Raoul de Houdenc, Méraugis de Portlesguez (1210).
Giraut de Bornelh, Songs (1215).
Walther von der Vogelweide, Songs (1220).
Snorri Sturluson, Edda (1220).
Guy d’Ussel, Pastorelas (1220).
Peire Cardenal, Satirical Songs (1220).
Henri de Valenciennes, Phyllis and Aristotle (1220).
Heinrich von Morungen, Songs (1222).
Francis of Assisi, Canticle of the Creatures (1224).
Gerbert de Montreuil, The Romance of the Violet (1228).
Theobald IV of Champagne, Songs (1230).
Rudolf von Ems, Barlaam and Josaphat (1230).
Ibn al-Farid, Poems (1234).
Neidhart von Reuental, Songs (1236).
Sordello da Goito, Funeral Lament (1237).
Henri d’Andeli, The Battle of the Seven Arts (1240).
Guillaume de Lorris, The Romance of the Rose (1240).
Colin Muset, Songs (1240).
Philippe de Rémi, Jehan and Blonde (1240).
Jacopo da Lentini, Songs (1250).
Saadi, The Orchard (1257).
Konrad von Würzburg, The Knight of the Swan (1258).
Chiaro Davanzati, Songs (1267).
Rumi, Masnavi (1273).
Guido Guinizzelli, Sonnets (1276).
Rutebeuf, On Poverty (1277).
Jean de Meung, The Romance of the Rose (1280).
Baudouin de Condé, The Three Living and the Three Dead (1280).
Girart d’Amiens, Escanor (1280).
Adam de la Halle, The Play of Robin and Marion (1280).
Jacques Bretel, The Tournament of Chauvency (1285).
Jacquemart Giélée, Reynard the New (1288).
Guiraut Riquier, Songs (1292).
Adenet le Roi, Cleomades (1297).
Jacopone da Todi, Laude (1298).
Jakemes, The Lord of Coucy and the Lady of Fayel (1300).
Guido Cavalcanti, Songs (1300).
Wang Shifu, The West Chamber (1300).
Gervais du Bus, The Romance of Fauvel (1314).
Jean Maillart, The Romance of the Count of Anjou (1316).
Yunus Emre, Poems (1321).
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (1321).
Watriquet de Couvin, Dits (1329).
Guillaume de Digulleville, The Pilgrimage of Human Life (1332).
Philippe de Vitry, The Three Fleurs-de-Lys (1332).
Cino da Pistoia, Songs (1336).
Guillaume de Machaut, The Cure of Ill Fortune (1341).
Juan Ruiz, The Book of Good Love (1343).
Giovanni Boccacio, The Decameron (1353).
Jean Froissart, The Spinet of Love (1365).
Shi Nai’an, The Water Margin (1370).
Jean Le Fèvre de Ressons, The Book of Gladness (1370).
Francesco Petrarca, Songs (1374).
William Langland, Piers Plowman (1380).
Philippe de Mézières, The Dream of the Old Pilgrim (1390).
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1390).
John Gower, Confessio Amantis (1390).
Hafez, Poems (1390).
Jean d’Arras, Melusina (1394).
Othon III de Grandson, The Book of Lord Ode (1397).
Luo Guanzhong, Romance of the Three Kingdoms (1400).
♀ Christine de Pisan, The Path of Long Study (1403).
Eustache Deschamps, Poems (1404).
Zeami, The Wind in the Pines (1410).
Thomas Hoccleve, The Regiment of Princes (1412).
Alain Chartier, The Book of the Four Ladies (1416).
James I of Scotland, The King’s Book (1430).
John Lydgate, The Fall of Princes (1438).
Iñigo López de Mendoza, The Little Comedy of Ponza (1440).
Charles of Orléans, Poems (1440).
Martin Le Franc, The Champion of Ladies (1442).
Juan de Mena, The Labyrinth of Fortune (1444).
Oswald von Wolkenstein, Songs (1445).
Antoine de La Sale, Queen Sibyl’s Paradise (1447).
Michault Taillevent, The Pastime (1448).
Pierre Chastellain, Lost Time (1450).
Jacques Milet, The Destruction of Troy (1452).
Arnoul Gréban, The Passion Play (1455).
Jean du Prier, The Play of King Future (1455).
René of Anjou, The Book of the Love-Smitten Heart (1457).
Martial d’Auvergne, Love’s Judgements (1460).
François Villon, The Testament (1461).
Jean Meschinot, The Glasses of the Princes (1464).
Thomas Malory, The Death of Arthur (1469).
Diego de San Pedro, The Prison of Love (1475).
Gómez Manrique, The Birth of Our Lord (1476).
Jorge Manrique, Verses on My Father’s Death (1476).
Agnolo Poliziano, The Fable of Orpheus (1480).
Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid (1480).
Luigi Pulci, Morgante (1483).
Matteo Maria Boiardo, Orlando in Love (1483).
Ali-Shir Nava’i, Farhad and Shirin (1484).
Jean Molinet, Judith and Holofernes (1485).
Jean Michel, The Passion Play (1486).
Lorenzo de’ Medici, Representation of Saints John and Paul (1491).
Sebastian Brant, The Ship of Fools (1494).
André de la Vigne, The Blind Man and the Lame (1496).
APPENDIX
Bhavabhuti, Malati and Madhava (750).
Ki no Tsurayuki, Tosa Diary (935).
Al-Maari, The Spark of the Fire Stick (1020).
Theodore Prodromos, Rhodanthe and Dosikles (1160).
John Tzetzes, Antehomerica (1180).
Khaqani, Poems (1190).
Shams Tabrizi, Poems (1248).
Gautier Le Leu, Tales (1250).
Gonzalo de Berceo, The Miracles of Our Lady (1260).
Alfonso X of Castile, Canticles of Holy Mary (1265).
Guittone d’Arezzo, Songs (1285).
Guan Hanqing, The Injustice to Dou E (1300).
Jean de Condé, Dits (1320).
Raoul Le Fèvre, The Histories of Troy (1464).
Antoine Busnois, Songs (1490).
NON-FICTION
Photius, Library (850).
John Zonaras, Extracts of History (1120).
John Xiphilinus, Roman History (1175).
Rustichello da Pisa, Book of the Marvels of the World (1298).
John Mandeville, Travels (1357).
Ibn Khaldun, Prolegomena (1377).
Laonikos Chalkokondyles, Demonstrations of Histories (1463).
