11th century in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 11th century.

See also: 11th century in poetry, 10th century in literature, 12th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

c. 1000–1025 – Only surviving manuscript of Beowulf written.

c. 1022 – Nannayya, Aadi Kavi ("the first poet"), begins work on composing Andhra Mahabharatam, a translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu and the first work of Telugu literature.

1029 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni orders burning of the library of Rey in Persia and all books deemed as heretical.

1070 – The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is established in the capital of Vietnam.

1080–1086 – Chinese poet and polymath Su Shi is sent into internal exile for political reasons; during this period he writes the first and second Chibifu (赤壁賦 "The Red Cliffs").

1086 – Poet-ruler of Al-Andalus Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad kills his fellow-poet, former lover and vizier Muhammad ibn Ammar.

New works

1000

Al-Tasrif (كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف "The Method of Medicine"), by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)

The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (کتاب الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiyah `an al-qurūn al-khāliyah), by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī

c. 1000 – The Battle of Maldon (Old English)

c. 1008–10 – The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記 Murasaki Shikibu Nikki), by Murasaki Shikibu (kana script)

1010: March 8 (completed) – Shahnameh, by Ferdowsi

1011 – Manual (Enchiridion), by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey

1012–18 – Chronicon Thietmari, by Thietmar of Merseburg

By 1018 – Confessio Theologica, by John of Fécamp

1019 – Legenda Sancti Goeznovii, by 'William'

By 1021 – The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari), by Murasaki Shikibu

1021 – Book of Optics, by Alhazen

1025 – The Canon of Medicine, by Avicenna

1027 – The Book of Healing, by Avicenna

1026–46 – Historiarum libri quinque ab anno incarnationis DCCCC usque ad annum MXLIV ("History in five books from 900–1044 AD"), by Rodulfus Glaber

c. 1040–44 – Wujing Zongyao (武經總要, "Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques"), by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, Yang Weide and others

c. 1040–53 – Mukhtar al-hikam wa mahasin al-kalim ("Choice Maxims and Finest Sayings"), by al-Mubashshir ibn Fatiq

1041–42 – Encomium Emmae Reginae probably by a Flemish monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer

Mid-11th century – Sponsus

After c. 1040 – Le Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), original version, perhaps by Turold

c. 1049 – Chronicle of Nantes (Chronicon Namnetense) concludes

c. 1054–76 – Cançó de Santa Fe, by an anonymous clerk in a Catalan dialect of Old Occitan

After 1056 – Liber precum variarum, by John of Fécamp

1064 – Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years"), by Sima Guang

1066 – by Sima Guang

Leipian (類篇 "Classified Chapters"; Chinese dictionary)

Tongzhi (通志 "Comprehensive Records" (of Chinese history))

1070 – Kutadgu Bilig ("The Wisdom Which Brings Good Fortune"), by Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate (Uyghur language)

c. 1070 – Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (浜松中納言物語), attributed to Takasue's Daughter

1073–76 – Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum, by Adam of Bremen

c. 1075 – Vita sancta Servatii and Miracula sancta Servatii (life and miracles of Saint Servatius), by Jocundus

1077 – Monologion ("Monologue"), by Anselm

1077–78 – Proslogion ("Address"), by Anselm

1084 –Zizhi Tongjian (資治通鑑; "Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government") by Sima Guang

1086 – Domesday Book

c. 1087 – Almanac, by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)

1088 – Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談, Mèng Xī Bǐ Tán), by Shen Kuo

1098 – Elucidarium, by Honorius Augustodunensis

Late 11th century

The Incoherence of the Philosophers (تهافت الفلاسفة, Tahāfut al-Falāsifaʰ) by Al-Ghazali

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian)

11th or 12th century – Betha Meic Creiche ("Life of Mac Creiche" in Middle Irish)

c. 11th century – The Records of Origin on Things and Affairs (事物纪原), by Gao Cheng

Heian period

Sarashina Nikki (更級日記, a travel diary), by Takasue's Daughter

Yoru no Nezame (夜の寝覚, "Wakefulness at Night"), attributed to Takasue's Daughter, but perhaps written after 1086

Births

c. 1001 – Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, al-Andalusian poet and princess (died 1091)

c. 1033 – Anselm of Canterbury, Aosta-born scholastic philosopher, archbishop and saint (died 1109)

1037: January 8 – Su Shi, Chinese poet (died 1101)

1040: February 22 – Rashi, French rabbinical scholar (died 1105)

1048: May 18 – Omar Khayyám, Persian philosopher, scientist and presumed poet (died 1131)

1078: Ibn Quzman, al-Andalusian poet (died 1160)

Deaths

c. 1002 – Hrotsvitha, Saxon secular canoness and writer of Latin poetry and drama (born c. 935)

1029 – Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍), Japanese waka poet

1037 – Avicenna (Ibn-Sīnā), Persian polymath

1064: August 15 – Ibn Hazm (al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī), Andalusian polymath (born 994)

1079: February 22 – John of Fécamp, Italian-born Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer

References

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Events

New works

Births

Deaths

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