Middle Ages
Further information: Medieval literature- 15th century in literature – Johann Gutenberg prints the Vulgate Bible; – Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d'Arthur;
- 14th century in literature – The Divine Comedy – Dante Alighieri; The Decameron – Giovanni Boccaccio; Canterbury Tales – Geoffrey Chaucer
- 13th century in literature – Theologus Autodidactus, Gesta Romanorum – Ibn al-Nafis; The Travels of Marco Polo – Marco Polo, Golden Legend
- 12th century in literature – Hayy ibn Yaqdhan – Ibn Tufail, La Chanson de Roland, Tristan and Iseult
- 11th century in literature – The Tale of Genji – Murasaki Shikibu
- 10th century in literature – One Thousand and One Nights
- 6th to 9th centuries in literature – Book of Kells, Poetic Edda, Beowulf; The Pillow Book – Sei Shōnagon
Read more about this topic: List Of Years In Literature
Famous quotes containing the words middle and/or ages:
“A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work; but whereas the composer and the painter can erase some of their past efforts, we cannot. We are stuck with what we have lived through. The trick is to finish it with a sense of design and a flourish rather than to patch up the holes or merely to add new patches to it.”
—Harry S. Broudy (b. 1905)
“Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)