13th century in literature

none This article is a list of literary events and publications in the 13th century. Events 1202 – Leonardo Fibonacci writes Liber Abaci, about the modus Indorum, the Hindu–Arabic numeral system, including the use of zero; it is the first major work in Europe to move away from the use of Roman numerals.The Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution Keith Devlin 2012 Walker Books 978-0802779083 registration https://archive.org/details/manofnumbersfibo0000devl 1204 – The Imperial Library of Constantinople is destroyed by Christian knights of the Fourth Crusade and its contents burned or sold.The Great Betrayal: The Great Siege of Constantinople Ernle Bradford 7 January 2013 9781617568008 https://books.google.com/books?id=qkS916lwXScC&q=Crusaders+Burn+the+Library+of+constantinople&pg=PT3 1211 – Hélinand of Froidmont begins compiling his Chronicon.Ruthenica Bohemica Verkholantsev Julia 2008 Lit Verlag GmbH Vienna 978-3-7000-0851-4 70 1215 – Bhiksu Ananda of Kapitanagar completes writing the Buddhist book Arya Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita (Sutra), in gold ink in Ranjana script. 1216 – Roger of Wendover, English monk and chronicler, at St Albans Abbey, begins to cover contemporary events, in his continuation of the chronicle Flores Historiarum.http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/runnymede.html Signing of Magna Carta, Runneymede, 1215 2009-11-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20170324140837/http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/runnymede.html 2017-03-24 dead 1217 – Alexander Neckam, English scholar and theologian, writes De naturis rerum ("On the Nature of Things"), a scientific encyclopedia.Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History, p. 135. 0-304-35730-8. 1220 – A new shrine built at Canterbury Cathedral in England to house the remains of St Thomas Becket quickly becomes one of Europe's major places of pilgrimage,John Shannon Hendrix The Splendor of English Gothic Architecture https://books.google.com/books?id=lmEhnBm3qqkC&pg=PA23 30 June 2012 Parkstone International 978-1-78042-891-8 23 and the destination of the fictional pilgrims in Geoffrey Chaucer's set of narrative poems The Canterbury Tales, written about 170 years later.Leigh Hatts The Pilgrims' Way: To Canterbury from Winchester and London https://books.google.com/books?id=_m3-DwAAQBAJ 28 February 2017 Cicerone Press Limited 978-1-78362-460-7 1226: By August – The biographical poem L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, commissioned to commemorate William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1219), a rare example at this time of a life of a lay person, is completed, probably by a Tourangeau layman called John in the southern Welsh Marches.David Crouch Marshal, William (I), fourth earl of Pembroke (c.1146–1219) 2004 Online http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18126 2013-11-05 10.1093/ref:odnb/18126 thumb|Dante Alighieri was one of the most influential writers of the 13th century1240 – Albert of Stade joins the Franciscan order and begins his chronicle.From Calculus to Computers: Using the Last 200 Years of Mathematics History in the Classroom Shell-Gellasch Amy Amy Shell-Gellasch 2005 Mathematical Association of America 0-88385-178-4 110 1249: September 27 – Chronicler Guillaume de Puylaurens is present at the death of Raymond VII of Toulouse.Guillaume de Puylaurens The Chronicle of William of Puylaurens: The Albigensian Crusade and Its Aftermath https://books.google.com/books?id=mIQTe2VaZQsC&pg=PR23 2003 Boydell Press 978-0-85115-925-6 23 1251 – The carving is completed of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist scriptures recorded on some 81,000 wooden blocks, thought to have been started in 1236.The International Buddhist Forum Quarterly https://books.google.com/books?id=bmM9AAAAIAAJ 1977 International Buddhist Forum Foundation 15 1258: February 13 – The House of Wisdom in Baghdad is destroyed by forces of the Mongol Empire after the Siege of Baghdad. The waters of the Tigris are said to have run black with ink from the huge quantities of books flung into it, and red from the blood of the philosophers and scientists killed. 1274: May 1 – In Florence, the nine-year-old Dante Alighieri first sees the eight-year-old Beatrice, his lifelong muse.Dante Alighieri Divine Comedy, Consisting of the Inferno - Purgatorio & Paradiso https://books.google.com/books?id=c79EVzPq0JAC&pg=PA12 1893 S. Sonnenschein 12 1276 – Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use.Library & Archives – History http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml Merton College Oxford 2012-05-08 https://web.archive.org/web/20120513022654/http://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/aboutmerton/library8.shtml 2012-05-13 dead During the first century of its existence the books are probably kept in a chest. 1283 – Ram Khamhaeng, ruler of the Sukhothai Kingdom, creates the Thai alphabet (อักษรไทย), according to tradition. 1289 – Library of the Collège de Sorbonne, earliest predecessor of the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne, is founded in Paris.Stam David H. International Dictionary of Library Histories https://books.google.com/books?id=pf8rV7tUCN8C&pg=PA880 January 2001 Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers 978-1-57958-244-9 880– 1298–1299 – Marco Polo dictates his Travels to Rustichello da Pisa while in prison in Genoa, according to tradition. 1300, Easter – The events of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy take place.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Dante-Alighieri/The-Divine-Comedy The Divine Comedy Britannica 1 July 2017 New works 13th century Huon of Bordeaux Sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur)Íslenzk fræði https://books.google.com/books?id=W-W5w_dJWA8C 1937 Bókaútgáfa Menningarsjósðs 20 Beatrice of Nazareth – Seven Ways of Holy Love, the earliest prose work in Dutch Conrad of Saxony – Speculum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis Śivadāsa – "The five and twenty tales of the genie" (version of the Baital Pachisi) Zhou Mi – Miscellaneous observations from the year of Guixin (癸辛雜識) c. 1200 Layamon – Brut NibelungenliedThe Nibelungenlied: The Lay of the Nibelungs 2010 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-923854-5 xi Early 13th century Ancrene WisseA Companion to Ancrene Wisse Wada Yoko 2010 D.S. Brewer Cambridge, UK 978-1-84384-243-9 1 Færeyinga saga Farid al-Din Attar – Mantiqu 't-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds)Language, Status and Power in Iran Beeman William O. Bloomington Indiana University Press 1986 0-253-33139-0 43 registration https://archive.org/details/languagestatuspo00beem_0/page/43 Codex GigasThe Recycled Bible: Autobiography, Culture, and the Space Between https://archive.org/details/recycledbibleaut00blac limited Black Fiona C. 2006 Society of Biblical Literature Atlanta, GA 978-1-58983-146-9 138 Le Conte de Poitiers Gautier de Coincy – Les miracles de Nostre-Dame Anonymus (notary of Béla III) – Gesta Hungarorum Guido delle Colonne – Historia destructionis Troiae Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks (The Saga of Hervar and Heidrek) Gerbert de Montreuil – Le Roman de la Violette Raghavanka – Harishchandra Kavya Jean Renart – Guillaume de Dole Roi Flore et la belle Jeanne Wolfram von Eschenbach – Parzival c. 1203 – Hartmann von Aue – Iwein 1205 – Lancelot-Grail 1205–1234 – Estoire d'Eracles (Old French translation of William of Tyre's Historia) c. 1208 – Saxo Grammaticus – Gesta Danorum c. 1210 Herbers – Li romans de Dolopathos (translation of Seven Wise Masters) Raimon Vidal de Bezaudun – Razós de trobar Gottfried von Strassburg – Tristan 1210–1225 – Sa'ad al-Din Varavini – Marzban-nama (مرزبان‌نامه) 1212 – Kamo no Chōmei (鴨 長明) – Hōjōki (方丈記, Account of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut) 1214 – Gervase of Tilbury – Otia Imperialia c. 1215 Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube – Girard de Vienne Rumi – Diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi (masnavi in Persian) c. 1217–1235 – Andayya – Kabbigara Kava (Poets' Defender) c. 1217–1263 – Strengleikar, Old Norse translation of the Lais of Marie de France, perhaps (partly) by Brother Robert 1220 – Ibn Hammad – Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd c. 1220s – Snorri Sturlusson – Prose Edda c. 1225 Francis of Assisi – Laudes creaturarum or Cantico delle creature (Praise of God's creation), the oldest known Italian poetry2 – Poetry. Francis of Assisi 5 https://books.google.com/books?id=3uq0bObScHMC&q=%22Poetry+Francis+of+Assisi%22&pg=PA5 The Cambridge History of Italian Literature https://books.google.com/books?id=3uq0bObScHMC Peter Brand Lino Pertile Lino Pertile 1999 Cambridge University Press 978-0-52166622-0 2013-09-29 King Horn, the oldest known English verse romancePalmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 79–81 0-7126-5616-2 1225 or 1226 – L'Histoire de Guillaume le Marechal (early example of a political biography, in Norman French) 1227 – Brother Robert – Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar, an Old Norse translation of the Tristan and Iseult legend c. 1227 – Henry of Latvia – Livonian Chronicle of Henry c. 1230 La Mort le roi Artu, French prose romance Guillaume de Lorris – First section of Romance of the Rose Johannes de Sacrobosco – De sphaera mundi Snorri Sturlusson – Heimskringla c. 1230s – Post-Vulgate Cycle Mainly before 1235 – Henry de Bracton – De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae (The Laws and Customs of England) c. 1240 Bartholomeus Anglicus – De proprietatibus rerum Egil's Saga Johannes de Garlandia – De Mensurabili Musica Rudolf von Ems – Alexanderroman c. 1240–1250 – Roger Bacon – Summa Grammatica mid-13th century Black Book of Carmarthen completed Doön de Mayence Franco of Cologne – Ars cantus mensurabilis Jean de Mailly – Chronica universalis Mettensis Old incidents in the Xuanhe period of the great Song Dynasty (大宋宣和遺事) c. 1250 – Willem die Madoc maecte – Van den vos Reynaerde 1250s – Stephen of Bourbon – De septem donis Spiritus Sancti c. 1250–1266 – Poema de Fernán González c. 1250–1282 – Mechthild of Magdeburg – Das fließende Licht der Gottheit (The Flowing Light of Divinity; originally composed in Middle Low German) 1252 Calyla e Dymna, translation of the Panchatantra into Castilian Jikkunshō After 1255 – Epic of Sundiata, in Mandinka oral tradition 1258–1273 – Rumi – Masnavi 1259 – Bonaventure – Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum (Journey of the Mind to God) c. 1259–1265 – Thomas Aquinas – Summa contra GentilesFrank Northen Magill Masterplots Cyclopedia of World Authors https://books.google.com/books?id=8dROAQAAMAAJ 1958 Salem Press 40 c. 1259–1266 – Jacobus de Voragine – Golden Legend (Legenda sanctorum) completed 1260 – Minhaj-i-Siraj – Tabaqat-i Nasiri c. 1260 Le Récit d'un ménestrel de Reims Sa'di – Gulistan, Bustan poets and texts in Persian 1263 – Bonaventure – Life of St. Francis of Assisi c. 1263 – Jacob van Maerlant – Der Naturen Bloeme c. 1264 – Jacob van Maerlant – De Spieghel Historiael 1265 Book of Aneirin (written or copied at about this date) Shokukokin Wakashū (続古今和歌集, Collection of Ancient and Modern Times Continued, completed) c. 1268–1285 – Jean de Meun – Second section of Romance of the Rose c. 1270 Ibn al-Nafis – Theologus Autodidactus John of Capua – Directorium Vitae Humanae, translation of the Panchatantra Poetic Edda written in Codex Regius, including Hávamál and Völwpá c. 1270–1278 – Witelo – Perspectiva 1274 Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla – Ginnat Egoz (Garden of Nuts) Bonvesin da la Riva – Libro de le tre scritture (Negra, Rubra, Aurea; Western Lombard) late 13th century Amir Khusrow – The Tale of the Four Dervishes (fa قصه چهار درویش, Ghesseh-ye Chahār Darvīsh) Njáls saga c. 1280 Bernard of Besse – Liber de Laudibus Beati Francisci Il-yeon – Samguk yusa Heinrich der Vogler – Dietrichs Flucht c. 1280s Havelok the Dane The Owl and the Nightingale 'Anonymous IV' – Concerning the Measurement of Polyphonic Song 1283 Ramon Llull – Blanquerna Mujū – Shasekishū 1288 – Bonvesin da la Riva – De magnalibus urbis Mediolani (On the Marvels of Milan) 1288–1289 – Amir Khusrow – Qiran-us-Sa’dain (Meeting of the Two Auspicious Stars – masnavi) c. 1290s – "Sir Patrick Spens" (Scottish ballad) 1290–1291 Dnyaneshwar – Dnyaneshwari Amir Khusrow – Miftah-ul-Futooh (Key to the Victories – masnavi) 1293 – Dante Alighieri – La Vita Nuova 1294 – Amir Khusrow – Ghurratul-Kamal (diwan) c. 1295 – Mathieu of Boulogne – Liber lamentationum Matheoluli (Book of the Lamentations of Matheolus) 1298 Amir Khusrow – Khamsa-e-Nizami Gertrude the Great (begins) – Legatus Memorialis Abundantiae Divinae Pietatis (The Herald of Divine Love) 1299 – Rustichello da Pisa – The Travels of Marco Polo c. 1300 Cursor Mundi Gesta Romanorum New drama The Orphan of Zhao (趙氏孤兒 Zhaoshi guer) c. 1262 – Adam de la Halle – Le jeu Adan (or Le jeu de la Feuillee, satire) c. 1282–3 – Adam de la Halle – Jeu de Robin et Marion (Picard language play with music) c. 1300 – The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Interludium de clerico et puella) Births c. 1200 – Matthew Paris, English chronicler and monk (died 1259)https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-FF-00001-00024/1 Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs University of Cambridge Digital Library 1 July 2017 1200 – Rudolf von Ems, German nobleman, knight and poet (d. 1254)118603736 1205 – Tikkana, Telugu poet (died 1288) 1207: September 9 – Rumi, Persian poet (died 1273) c. 1210 – Henry de Bracton, English cleric and jurist (died c. 1268) c. 1212 – Ibn Sahl of Seville, poet (died 1251) 1214 – Sturla Þórðarson, Icelandic writer of sagas and politician (died 1284) 1225: January 28 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher and theologian (died 1274) c. 1230–1240 – Jacob van Maerlant, Flemish poet and writer in Middle Dutch (died c. 1288–1300) 1240 or 1241 – Mechtilde, German religious writer and saint (died 1298) 1248 – Angela of Foligno Italian mystic and saint (died 1309) 1265 – Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (died 1321)https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/09/dantealighieri Dante Alighieri The Guardian 1 July 2017 1266 (probable) – Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher and theologian (died 1308) 1275 – Dnyaneshwar, Maharashtrian sant and writer (died 1296) 1279 – Muktabai, Maharashtrian sant and Abhang poet (died 1297) c. 1280 – Ranulf Higden, English chronicler and Benedictine monk (died 1364) 1283 (approximate) Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita, Castilian poet (died c. 1350) Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), Japanese author and Buddhist monk (died c. 1350) 1287: January 24 – Richard de Bury, English bishop and bibliophile (died 1345) 1293 or 1294 – John of Ruysbroeck (Jan van Ruysbroeck), Flemish mystic (died 1381) Unknown year – Thomas the Rhymer, Scottish laird and prophet Deaths Unknown – Palkuriki Somanatha, Telugu, Kannada and Sanskrit poet 1209 Nizami Ganjavi, Seljuk Empire Persian romantic epic poet (born c. 1141) December 29 – Lu You, Chinese poet (born 1125) c. 1210 – Gottfried von Strassburg, German writer 1212 – Adam of Dryburgh, Anglo-Scots theologian (born c. 1140) 1223 – Gerald of Wales, Cambro-Norman churchman and topographer (born c. 1146) 1228 (probable) – Gervase of Tilbury, English lawyer, statesman and writer (born c. 1150) 1241: September 23 – Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (born 1179) 1241: September 26 – Fujiwara no Teika (藤原定家), Japanese waka poet, calligrapher, novelist, and scholar (born 1162) 1251 Ibn Sahl of Seville, poet (born c. 1212) (probable) – Albertanus of Brescia, Latin prose writer (born c. 1195) 1252 (probable) – Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Cistercian chronicler 1253: October 9 – Robert Grosseteste, English churchman and scholar (born c. 1175) 1259: June – Matthew Paris, English chronicler and monk (born c. 1200)Matthew Paris https://books.google.com/books?id=xec7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA11 CUP Archive 11 1268 – Henry de Bracton, English writer and jurist (born c. 1210) 1273: December 17 – Rumi, Persian poet (born 1207) 1274 March 7 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher and theologian (born 1225)Jean-Pierre Torrell Saint Thomas Aquinas: the person and his work https://books.google.com/books?id=1KUS-cBJmqoC&pg=PA1 2005 CUA Press 978-0-8132-1423-8 1 July 12 – Bonaventure, philosopher and theologian 1285 – Rutebeuf, French trouvère (probable; born c. 1245)George Sarton Introduction to the History of Science ... https://books.google.com/books?id=bTdaAAAAYAAJ 1967 Williams & Wilkins 978-0-598-25427-6 249 1287: August 31 – Konrad von Würzburg, German poetRandel Don The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA460 1996 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-37299-3 460 1294 Roger Bacon, English scholar (born c. 1214) Guittone d'Arezzo, Tuscan poet (born c. 1235) 1298: July 13 or 16: Jacobus de Voragine, archbishop of Genoa and chronicler (born c. 1230) See also 13th century in poetry 12th century in literature 14th century in literature List of years in literature References 30em Category:Medieval literature Category:History of literature