14th Century in Literature - New Books

New Books

  • c. 1300
    • Book of Taliesin – Taliesin, (c. 534 – c. 599), a Brythonic poet of Sub-Roman Britain whose work has survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, c. early 14th century, the Book of Taliesin. Taliesin was a renowned bard who is believed to have sung at the courts of at least three Celtic British kings.
    • Gesta Romanorum, anon.
    • Marguerite Porete – The Mirror of Simple Souls
  • ca. 1320–1330
    • Jacob of Liège – Speculum musicae
  • 1321
    • Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy
  • 1330
    • Juan Ruiz – The Book of Good Love
    • Robert of Basevorn – The Form of Preaching (date of first known MS)
  • ca. 1330–1340 – Perceforest
  • 1340
    • Ayenbite of Inwyt
  • ca. 1350
    • The Tale of Gamelyn (anonymous)
  • ca. 1352
    • Wynnere and Wastoure (anonymous)
  • 1353
    • Giovanni Boccaccio – The Decameron
  • 1369
    • Geoffrey Chaucer – The Book of the Duchess
  • 1371
    • The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (anonymous)
    • Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry – The Book of the Knight of the Tower
  • 1375
    • John Barbour – The Brus
  • 1382
    • Jacobus de Teramo – Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum
  • 1390
    • John Gower – Confessio Amantis
  • 1390s
    • Geoffrey Chaucer Canterbury Tales
    • Julian of Norwich — Revelations of Divine Love
    • Sayana's commentary on the Vedas.
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    • South English Legendary

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