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13th century in literature

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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 13th century.

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See also: 13th century in poetry, 12th century in literature, 14th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

  • 1204 – The Imperial Library of Constantinople is destroyed by Christian knights of the Fourth Crusade and its contents burned or sold.
  • 1211 – Hélinand of Froidmont begins compiling his Chronicon.
  • 1226: By August – The biographical poem L'histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, commissioned to commemorate the life of William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 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.
  • 1240 – Albert of Stade joins the Franciscan order and begins his chronicle.
  • 1249: September 27 – Chronicler Guillaume de Puylaurens is present at the death of Raymond VII of Toulouse.
  • 1251 – The carving of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist scriptures recorded on some 81,000 wooden blocks, is completed.
  • 1258: February 13 – The House of Wisdom in Baghdad is destroyed by forces of the Mongol Empire following the end of the Siege of Baghdad. It is said that the waters of the Tigris run black with ink from the enormous quantities of books flung into the river 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.
  • 1276 – Merton College, Oxford, is first recorded as having a collection of books, making its Library the world's oldest in continuous daily use. 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.
  • 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's Divine Comedy take place.
  • New works

  • 13th century
  • Huon of Bordeaux
  • Beatrice of NazarethSeven Ways of Holy Love, the earliest prose work in Dutch
  • Conrad of SaxonySpeculum Beatæ Mariæ Virginis
  • Zhou Mi – Miscellaneous observations from the year of Guixin (癸辛雜識)
  • c. 1200
  • LayamonBrut
  • Nibelungenlied
  • Early 13th century
  • Ancrene Wisse
  • Farid al-Din Attar – Mantiqu 't-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds)
  • Codex Gigas
  • Anonymus – Gesta Hungarorum
  • Guido delle ColonneHistoria destructionis Troiae
  • Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks ("The Saga of Hervar and Heidrek")
  • RaghavankaHarishchandra Kavya
  • Wolfram von EschenbachParzival
  • c. 1203 – Hartmann von AueIwein
  • 1205 – Lancelot-Grail
  • c. 1208 – Saxo GrammaticusGesta Danorum
  • c. 1210
  • Herbers – Li romans de Dolopathos (translation of Seven Wise Masters)
  • Gottfried von StrassburgTristan
  • 1212 – Kamo no Chōmei (鴨 長明) – Hōjōki (方丈記, Account of a Ten-Foot-Square Hut)
  • 1214 – Gervase of TilburyOtia Imperialia
  • c. 1215
  • Bertrand de Bar-sur-AubeGirard de Vienne
  • RumiDiwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi (masnavi in Persian)
  • c. 1217–1235 – AndayyaKabbigara Kava ("Poets' Defender")
  • 1220 – Ibn Hammad – Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd
  • c. 1220s – Snorri Sturlusson – Prose Edda
  • c. 1225
  • Francis of AssisiLaudes creaturarum or Cantico delle creature ("Praise of God's creation"), the oldest known Italian poetry
  • King Horn, the oldest known English verse romance
  • 1227 – Brother RobertTristrams saga ok Ísöndar, an Old Norse translation of the Tristan and Iseult legend
  • c. 1227 – Henry of LatviaLivonian 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 SacroboscoDe sphaera mundi
  • Snorri Sturlusson – Heimskringla
  • c. 1230s – Post-Vulgate Cycle
  • c. 1240
  • Egil's Saga
  • Johannes de GarlandiaDe Mensurabili Musica
  • Rudolf von EmsAlexanderroman
  • c. 1240–1250 – Roger BaconSumma Grammatica
  • mid-13th century
  • Black Book of Carmarthen completed
  • Doön de Mayence
  • Franco of CologneArs cantus mensurabilis
  • Old incidents in the Xuanhe period of the great Song Dynasty (大宋宣和遺事)
  • c. 1250 – Willem die Madoc maecteVan den vos Reynaerde
  • c. 1250–1266 – Poema de Fernán González
  • c. 1250–1282 – Mechthild of MagdeburgDas 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
  • 1258–1273 – RumiMasnavi
  • 1259 – BonaventureItinerarium Mentis ad Deum ("Journey of the Mind to God")
  • 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 – BonaventureLife of St. Francis of Assisi
  • c. 1263 – Jacob van MaerlantDer Naturen Bloeme
  • c. 1264–1273 – Thomas AquinasSumma contra Gentiles
  • c. 1264 – Jacob van MaerlantDe 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. 1270
  • Ibn al-NafisTheologus Autodidactus
  • John of CapuaDirectorium Vitae Humanae, translation of the Panchatantra
  • Poetic Edda written in Codex Regius, including Hávamál and Völwpá
  • c. 1270–1278 – Witelo – Perspectiva
  • 1274 – Bonvesin da la RivaLibro de le tre scritture (Negra, Rubra, Aurea) (Western Lombard)
  • c. 1275 – Jean de Meun – Second section of Romance of the Rose
  • late 13th century
  • Amir Khusrow – The Tale of the Four Dervishes (Persian: قصه چهار درویش‎‎, Ghesseh-ye Chahār Darvīsh)
  • Njáls saga
  • c. 1280
  • Bernard of BesseLiber de Laudibus Beati Francisci
  • Heinrich der Vogler – Dietrichs Flucht
  • c. 1280s
  • The Owl and the Nightingale
  • 'Anonymous IV' – Concerning the Measurement of Polyphonic Song
  • 1283
  • Ramon LlullBlanquerna
  • Mujū – Shasekishū
  • 1288 – Bonvesin da la RivaDe magnalibus urbis Mediolani ("On the Marvels of Milan")
  • 1288-9 – Amir Khusrow – Qiran-us-Sa’dain ("Meeting of the Two Auspicious Stars") (masnavi)
  • 1290s? – "Sir Patrick Spens" (Scottish ballad)
  • 1290-1
  • DnyaneshwarDnyaneshwari
  • Amir Khusrow – Miftah-ul-Futooh ("Key to the Victories") (masnavi)
  • 1293 – Dante AlighieriLa Vita Nuova
  • 1294 – Amir Khusrow – Ghurratul-Kamal (diwan)
  • c. 1295 – Mathieu of BoulogneLiber lamentationum Matheoluli ("Book of the Lamentations of Matheolus")
  • 1298 – Amir Khusrow – Khamsa-e-Nizami
  • 1299 – Rustichello da PisaThe Travels of Marco Polo
  • c. 1300
  • Cursor Mundi
  • Gesta Romanorum
  • The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Interludium de clerico et puella)
  • New drama

  • The Orphan of Zhao (趙氏孤兒 Zhaoshi guer)
  • Births

  • c. 1200: Matthew Paris, English chronicler and monk (died 1259)
  • 1205: Tikkana, Telugu poet (died 1288)
  • 1207: September 9 – Rumi, Persian poet (died 1273)
  • c. 1212 – Ibn Sahl of Seville, poet (died 1251)
  • 1214 – Sturla Þórðarson, Icelandic writer of sagas and politician (died 1284)
  • 1225: January 28Thomas 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)
  • 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)
  • 1293 or 1294 – John of Ruysbroeck (Jan van Ruysbroeck), Flemish mystic (died 1381)
  • Unknown yearThomas 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 29Lu 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 23Snorri Sturluson, Icelandic historian, poet, and politician (born 1179)
  • 1241: September 26Fujiwara 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 9Robert Grosseteste, English churchman and scholar (born c. 1175)
  • 1259 – Matthew Paris, English chronicler and monk (born c. 1200)
  • 1268 – Henry de Bracton, English lawyer (born c. 1210)
  • 1273: December 17 – Rumi, Persian poet (born 1207)
  • 1274
  • March 7 – Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher and theologian (born 1225)
  • July 12 – Bonaventure, philosopher and theologian
  • 1285 – Rutebeuf, French trouvère (born c. 1245)
  • 1287: August 31Konrad von Würzburg, German poet
  • 1294
  • Roger Bacon, English scholar (born c. 1214)
  • Guittone d'Arezzo, Tuscan poet (born c. 1235)
  • In literature

  • John Arden's play Left-Handed Liberty (1965) is set around the creation of Magna Carta in England in 1215.
  • References

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