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