12th century in poetry

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	This page is part of the List of years in poetry
Centuries in poetry:	11th century - 12th century - 13th century
Decades in poetry:	1100s 1110s 1120s 1130s 1140s 1150s 1160s 1170s 1180s 1190s
Centuries:	11th century - 12th century - 13th century

Contents 1 Europe 1.1 Events 1.2 Major works 1.3 Poets 2 Middle East 2.1 Events 2.2 Poets 3 Persia 3.1 Poets 4 South Asia 4.1 Poets 5 Southeast Asia 6 Decades and years

[edit] Europe

[edit] Events

• Emergence of the troubadour, trouvère and minnesänger traditions, in the Occitan, Langues d'oïl and Middle High German vernaculars respectively

[edit] Major works

• 1180 to 1210 - Nibelunglied
• The Tale of Igor's Campaign in Old East Slavic, dated near the end of the century
• Ormulum in Middle English
• Chanson d'Antioche and other crusader tales at the beginning of the century.

[edit] Poets

• Chrétien de Troyes flourishes in the 1170s and 1180s.
• Marie de France flourishes from approximately 1170 through 1205/1210.
• Jean Bodel
• Undated troubadors

• Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s)
• Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s)
• Marcabru (fl. 1140s and 1150s)
• Arnaut de Mareuil (fl. late 12th c.)

• Goliard poets, writing in Latin, flourish in European universities
• Nigel de Longchamps, writing in Latin in England
• John of Hauville, writing in Latin, probably in France
• Walter of Châtillon, writing in Latin in France
• Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, fl. in the last half of the century in Wales
• Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor, writing in Hebrew in France in the last half of the century

[edit] Middle East

[edit] Events

• Emergence of Turkic poetry

[edit] Poets

• Michael Glycas, Byzantine

[edit] Persia

[edit] Poets

• Nizami Aruzi
• Mahsati, a woman poet from Azerbaijan
• Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat

[edit] South Asia

[edit] Poets

• Akka Mahadevi, in Kannada
• Allama Prabhu, in Kannada
• Nagavarma II, in Kannada
• Rudrabhatta, in Kannada
• Chand Bardai in Hindi
• Fariduddin Ganjshakar in Punjabi

[edit] Southeast Asia

• Kakawin Hariwangsa authored mid-century in Java

[edit] Decades and years

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