Medieval Literature - Notable Literature of The Period

Notable Literature of The Period

  • Alexiad, Anna Comnena
  • Beowulf, anonymous Anglo-Saxon author
  • Caedmon's Hymn
  • Cantigas de Santa Maria, Galician authors
  • 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, Wace
  • The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer
  • The Cloud of Unknowing, anonymous English author
  • Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
  • David of Sassoun, anonymous Armenian author
  • Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio
  • The Dialogue, Catherine of Siena
  • Digenis Acritas, anonymous Greek author
  • The Diseases of Women, Trotula of Salerno
  • La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), Dante Alighieri
  • Dukus Horant, the first extended work in Yiddish.
  • Elder Edda, various Icelandic authors
  • Das fließende Licht der Gottheit, Mechthild of Magdeburg
  • Gesta Danorum, Saxo Grammaticus
  • Heimskringla, Snorri Sturluson
  • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People), the Venerable Bede
  • The Knight in the Panther Skin, Shota Rustaveli
  • The Lais of Marie de France, Marie de France
  • The Letters of Abelard and Heloise
  • Libro de los ejemplos del conde Lucanor y de Patronio (Book of the Examples of Count Lucanor and of Patronio), Don Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
  • Ludus de Antichristo, anonymous German author
  • Mabinogion, various Welsh authors
  • Metrical Dindshenchas, Irish onomastic poems
  • Il milione (The Travels of Marco Polo), Marco Polo
  • Le Morte d'Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory
  • Nibelungenlied, anonymous German author
  • Njál's saga, anonymous Icelandic author
  • Parzival, Wolfram von Eschenbach
  • Piers Plowman, William Langland
  • Poem of the Cid, anonymous Spanish author
  • Proslogium, Anselm of Canterbury
  • Queste del Saint Graal (The Quest of the Holy Grail), anonymous French author
  • Revelations of Divine Love, Julian of Norwich
  • Roman de la Rose, Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
  • Sadko, anonymous Russian author
  • Scivias, Hildegard of Bingen
  • Sic et Non, Abelard
  • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, anonymous English author
  • The Song of Roland, anonymous French author
  • Spiritual Exercises, Gertrude the Great
  • Summa Theologiae, Thomas Aquinas
  • Táin Bó Cúailnge, anonymous Irish author
  • The Tale of Igor's Campaign, anonymous Russian author
  • Tirant lo Blanc, Joanot Martorell
  • The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, John Mandeville
  • Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre
  • Tristan, Béroul
  • Tristan and Isolt, Gottfried von Strassburg
  • Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Waltharius
  • Younger Edda, Snorri Sturluson
  • Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, Chrétien de Troyes

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