14th century in literature
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- 1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse.
- 1324: May 3 (Holy Cross Day) – The Consistori del Gay Saber, founded the previous year in Toulouse to revive and perpetuate the lyric poetry of the Old Occitan troubadors, holds its first contest. Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari wins the violeta d'or (golden violet) for a sirventes in praise of the Virgin Mary. At about this date, Raimon de Cornet writes Doctrinal de trobar in support of the aims of the Gay Saber.
- 1327
- Between January 20 and September 21 – The deposed King Edward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II".
- April 6 (Good Friday) – Tuscan writer Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her up to about 1368, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.
- The action of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose (Il Nome della Rosa, 1980) takes place during this year.
- 1329: February – French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut is brought to the Siege of Medvėgalis by John of Bohemia so the king's crusading deeds can be commemorated in song and poetry.
- c. 1330 – Production of the Macclesfield Psalter in East Anglia.
- 1331 – Production of the Nuremberg Mahzor.
- 1357 – The Polychronicon concludes, Ranulf Higden having ceased work on it at least a dozen years earlier.
- 1362: September – Petrarch's library is donated to the Republic of Venice, although subsequently dispersed.
- 1368
- The new Hongwu Emperor in China halts government taxation on books.
- The Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) is founded as the Royal Library at the Louvre Palace in Paris by Charles V of France.
- 1377 – Production of the earliest known copy of the Laurentian Codex.
- 1382 – Earliest recorded appearance of Wyclif's Bible.
- 1388 – Revision of Wycliffe's Bible is completed by John Purvey, and Wyclif's followers, known as Lollards, begin to be persecuted in England.
- 1390–1 – Production of the Book of Ballymote in Ireland.
- 1390s – Production of the Yellow Book of Lecan in Ireland.
- 1397 – Production of the Kiev Psalter in Ukraine.
- 1398 – The early 13th century carved wooden text of the Tripitaka Koreana is moved to the Haeinsa Buddhist temple in modern-day South Korea, where it will remain into the 21st century.
- Undated
- The prose original of the Amadis de Gaula is produced (or perhaps translated into Old Spanish from an earlier 14th-century version), perhaps by the knight Vasco de Lobeira or the troubador João de Lobeira.
- Madhava Kandali produces the Saptakanda Ramayana (a retelling of the Ramayana), one of the earliest written examples of the Assamese language and the first translation from Sanskrit into one of the modern regional Indo-Aryan languages.
New works
- c. 1300
- Anon. – Gesta Romanorum
- Taliesin – Book of Taliesin, Middle Welsh. Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599) was a Brythonic bard of Sub-Roman Britain believed to have sung at the courts of at least three Celtic British kings.
- Marguerite Porete – The Mirror of Simple Souls
- Rustichello da Pisa – The Travels of Marco Polo
- 1310
- Amir Khusrow – Khazain-ul-Futuh
- 1315–16
- Amir Khusrow – Duval Rani–Khizr Khan ("Romance of Duval Rani and Khizr Khan"; masnavi)
- 1316–18
- Amir Khusrow – Noh-Sepehr ("Nine Skies"; masnavi)
- 1318
- Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari – Guilhem de la Barra
- ca. 1320–1335
- ca. 1320–1330
- Jacob of Liège – Speculum musicae
- 1320
- Dante Alighieri – Quaestio de Aqua et Terra
- Amir Khusrow – Tughluq Nama ("Book of the Tughluqs"; prose)
- 1321
- ca. 1321–1323
- Sanguozhi Pinghua (simplified Chinese: 三国志评话; traditional Chinese: 三國志平話; pinyin: Sānguózhì Pínghuà; literally "Story of Records of the Three Kingdoms")
- 1330
- Juan Ruiz – The Book of Good Love
- Robert of Basevorn – The Form of Preaching (date of first known MS)
- 'Michael' – Kildare Poems (MS of about this date)
- ca. 1330–1340
- ca. 1330–1400
- Luo Guanzhong (attrib.) – Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義)
- 1335
- Matthew Blastares (comp.) – Syntagma Canonum
- Lê Tắc – An Nam chí lược
- Don Juan Manuel – Tales of Count Lucanor
- 1338–1374 (first published 1396–1397)
- 1340
- Michael of Northgate (translator) – Ayenbite of Inwyt
- 1346
- Toqto'a (Yuan Minister) (editor) – History of Song (宋史, Sòng Shǐ)
- ca. 1350
- Prick of Conscience (Yorkshire)
- The Tale of Gamelyn (anonymous)
- ca. 1352
- Wynnere and Wastoure (anonymous)
- 1353
- ca. 1355
- ca. 1360–1384
- 1365
- 1369
- 1371
- The Travels of Sir John Mandeville (anonymous)
- Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry – The Book of the Knight of the Tower
- Kakuichi (compiler) – The Tale of the Heike (平家物語, Heike Monogatari)
- 1375
- 1382
- 1387
- John Trevisa – translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, including "Dialogue on Translation Between a Lord and a Clerk"
- 1390
- 1390s
- Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales
- Lady Julian of Norwich – Revelations of Divine Love
- 'Pearl Poet'
- Sayana – commentary on the Vedas.
- Ipomadon (Middle English tail-rhyme verse version; earliest likely date)
- South English Legendary
- Völsunga saga (approximate date of written version)
- Water Margin (水浒传, Shui Hu Zhuan; approximate date of earliest components known)
- c. 1399
- Christine de Pizan
- Cent Ballades d'Amant et de Dame, Virelyas, Rondeaux
- L'Épistre au Dieu d'amours
- L'Épistre de Othéa a Hector
- Christine de Pizan
New drama
- Li Qianfu – Circle of Chalk (Chinese: 灰闌記; pinyin: huīlán jì)
- c. 1350 – Misteri d'Elx (Valencian)
Births
- 1304 – Francesco Petrarca, later known as Petrarch, Tuscan poet
- 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer
- 1320 – Lalleshwari, Hindu poet
- 1333 – Kan'ami, Japanese Noh actor
- 1343 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet
- 1363 (approx.) – Zeami Motokiyo, Japanese Noh actor
- 1364 – Christine de Pizan, Venetian-born Middle French court poet and writer
Deaths
- 1306 – Adam de la Halle
- 1315: May 10 – Agnes Blannbekin
- 1316 (probable) – Ramon Llull
- 1321: September 14 – Dante Alighieri
- 1325:
- January 7 – King Denis of Portugal
- October – Amir Khusrow
- 1364 – Ranulf Higden, chronicler
- 1374: July 18 – Petrarch
- 1375: December 21 – Giovanni Boccaccio
- 1377: April – Guillaume de Machaut
- 1384: June 8 – Kan'ami
- 1392 – Lalleshwari
- 1395 – John Barbour
- 1400: December 15 – Geoffrey Chaucer
In literature
- Walter Scott's novel Castle Dangerous (1831) is set around 1306; The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) around 1396.
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