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
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“There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle and in ending except that each generation has something different at which they are all looking. By this I mean so simply that anybody knows it that composition is the difference which makes each and all of them then different from other generations and this is what makes everything different otherwise they are all alike and everybody knows it because everybody says it.”
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