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• 1323 – The namePléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) inToulouse.
• 1324: 3 May (Holy Cross Day) – TheConsistori del Gay Saber, founded the previous year inToulouse to revive and perpetuate thelyric poetry of theOld Occitantroubadors, holds its first contest.Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari wins thevioleta d'or (golden violet) for asirventes in praise of theVirgin Mary. At about this date,Raimon de Cornet writesDoctrinal de trobar in support of the aims of the Gay Saber.
• 1327
  • Between 20 January and 21 September – The deposed KingEdward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II".
  • 6 April (Good Friday) –Tuscan writerPetrarch 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 ofsonnets and other poems inItalian dedicated to her up to about 1368, which are collected intoIl Canzoniere, an influential model forRenaissance culture.
  • 27 August – Death ofThomas Cobham,Bishop of Worcester in England. His books are bequeathed to theUniversity of Oxford where they are installed in theUniversity Church of St Mary the Virgin, forming the university's first library.
• 1329: February – French poet and composerGuillaume de Machaut is brought to theSiege of Medvėgalis byJohn of Bohemia so the king's crusading deeds can be commemorated in song and poetry.
• c. 1330 – Production of theMacclesfield Psalter inEast Anglia.
• 1331 – Production of theNuremberg Mahzor.
• 1341:8 April –Petrarch becomespoet laureate at a ceremony in Rome.^[1]
• 1357 – ThePolychronicon concludes,Ranulf Higden having ceased work on it at least a dozen years earlier.
• 1360 – The future English writerGeoffrey Chaucer is captured by the French during theReims campaign of theHundred Years' War and ransomed by KingEdward III of England.^[2]
• 1362: September –Petrarch's library is donated to theRepublic of Venice, although subsequently dispersed.
• 1368
  • The newHongwu Emperor inChina halts government taxation on books.
  • TheBibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) is founded as the Royal Library at theLouvre Palace in Paris byCharles V of France.

• 1370–1398 – Approximate date of production of the earliest part of theSankt Florian Psalter, one of the earliest surviving texts to use thePolish language.
• 1372 –Old Permic alphabet introduced byStephen of Perm.
• 1374
  • 23 April: English writerGeoffrey Chaucer is granted a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life by order of KingEdward III of England in recognition of his services.
  • Ludolph of Saxony completes hisVita Christi, which appears first in book form in 1474 and becomes an influence on StIgnatius Loyola in the early 16th century.
• 1377 – Production of the earliest known copy of theLaurentian Codex.
• 1381:30 May–November –Peasants' Revolt in England. PreacherJohn Ball apparently cites the poemPiers Plowman (which is revised during this decade) andJohn Gower includes an account of the events in hisVox Clamantis. On 15 June, theUniversity of Cambridge's library and archives are burnt in the centre of the town, with one Margery Starre leading the mob in a dance to the rallying cry "Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!".^[3] The events inspire the late 16th century playThe Life and Death of Jack Straw,^[4]Robert Southey's dramatic poemWat Tyler (1794),^[5] and novels such asPierce Egan the Younger'sWat Tyler (1841),^[6]William Harrison Ainsworth'sMerry England (1874)^[7] andWilliam Morris'sA Dream of John Ball (1886).^[8]
• 1382 – Earliest recorded appearance ofWycliffe's Bible.
• 1384 –Henry of Langenstein writes his letter,De scismate, toEchard von Dersch, Bishop of Worms.^[9]
• 1386: October –Geoffrey Chaucer is obliged to give up most of his official offices in London and retires toKent where he may work onThe Canterbury Tales.^[10]
• 1388 – Revision ofWycliffe's Bible is completed byJohn Purvey, and Wyclif's followers, known asLollards, begin to be persecuted in England.
• 1390–1 – Production of theBook of Ballymote inIreland.
• 1390s – Production of theYellow Book of Lecan in Ireland.
• 1397 – Production of theKiev Psalter inKiev Rus.
• 1398 – The early 13th century carved wooden text of theTripitaka Koreana is moved to theHaeinsaBuddhist temple in modern-daySouth Korea, where it will remain into the 21st century.
• unknown dates
  • The prose original of theAmadis de Gaula is produced (or perhaps translated intoOld Spanish from an earlier 14th-century version), perhaps by the knightVasco de Lobeira or the troubadorJoão de Lobeira.
  • Madhava Kandali produces theSaptakanda Ramayana (a retelling of theRamayana), one of the earliest written examples of theAssamese language and the first translation fromSanskrit into one of the modern regionalIndo-Aryan languages.
  • TheBardo Thodol is revealed to thetertönKarma Lingpa.

• c. 1300
  • Anonymous –Gesta Romanorum
  • Taliesin –Book of Taliesin,Middle Welsh. Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599) is a Brythonicbard ofSub-Roman Britain believed to have sung at the courts of at least threeCeltic British kings.
  • Marguerite Porete –The Mirror of Simple Souls
  • Rustichello da Pisa –The Travels of Marco Polo
• c. 1300–10
  • Gona Budda Reddy –Ranganatha ramayan (శ్రీ రంగనాథ రామాయణం) (Telugu language)
• Early to mid-14th century
  • Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Wahhābal-Nuwayri –The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (encyclopedia of Muslim knowledge)
  • AnonymousMiddle English writer from southern England (possible author of all following)
    • King Alisaunder
    • Of Arthour and of Merlin
    • Richard Coer de Lyon
    • The Seven Sages of Rome
  • Pseudo-Bonaventure –Meditations on the Life of Christ
  • Der Busant
  • Long Life of Saint Gerard (Legenda maior S. Gerardi, compiled)
• 1307
  • John of Gaddesden –Rosa Medicinæ
  • Rashid al-Din Hamadani –Jami' al-Tawarikh ("Compendium of Chronicles", often referred to as The Universal History or History of the World, published inTabriz,Persia)
  • Svit se konča ("World is Ending"), poem in Croatian,Glagolithic manuscript

• c. 1308–21
  • Dante Alighieri –Divine Comedy (Comedia)
• c. 1309–24
  • Speculum Humanae Salvationis
  • TheBook of Dede Korkut
• 1310
  • Amir Khusrow –Khazain-ul-Futuh
• 1310–1320
  • Queen Mary Psalter
• 1312
  • Jacques de Longuyon –Les Voeux du paon (The Vows of the Peacock)
• 1315–16
  • Amir Khusrow –Duval Rani–Khizr Khan (Romance of Duval Rani and Khizr Khan;masnavi)
• c. 1315–25
  • Rochefoucauld Grail
• 1316–18
  • Amir Khusrow –Noh-Sepehr (Nine Skies; 3masnavi)
• 1318
  • Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari –Guilhem de la Barra
• c. 1320–35
  • Erikskrönikan
• c. 1320–30
  • Jacob of Liège –Speculum musicae
• 1320
  • Dante Alighieri –Quaestio de Aqua et Terra
  • Amir Khusrow –Tughluq Nama (Book of the Tughluqs; prose)
• 1320–23
  • William of Pagula –Oculus Sacerdotis (Priest's Eye, a manual for priests)
• c. 1321
  • Liber Legum Regum Antiquorum (attributed toAndrew Horn)
• c. 1321–23
  • Sanguozhi Pinghua (三國志平話, Sānguózhì Pínghuà)Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language)
• 1326
  • Ibn Abi Zar –Rawd al-Qirtas
• 1328
  • Ramon Muntaner -Chronicle (Crònica), the longest ofThe Four Great Catalan Chronicles
• c. 1329–32
  • Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好) –Tsurezuregusa (Essays in Idleness)
• 1330
  • Robert of Basevorn –The Form of Preaching (date of first known MS)
  • 'Michael' –Kildare Poems (MS of about this date)
• c. 1330–40
  • Perceforest
• 1330–43
  • Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita –The Book of Good Love (El Libro de Buen Amor)
• c. 1330–1400
  • Luo Guanzhong (attributed) –Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義)
• 1335
  • Matthew Blastares (compiler) –Syntagma Canonum
  • Lê Tắc –An Nam chí lược (安南志略)
  • Don Juan Manuel –Tales of Count Lucanor
• 1335–40
  • Giovanni Boccaccio –Il Filostrato
• 1338–14 (first published 1396–1397)
  • Petrarch –Africa
• 1340
  • Michael of Northgate (translator) –Ayenbite of Inwyt
• c. 1340
  • Anonymous -The Ointment Seller
• c. 1340–41
  • Giovanni Boccaccio –Teseida
• c. 1340–1349
  • Dafydd ap Gwilym –The Girls of Llanbadarn,The Dream andThe Seagull
• 1345
  • Richard de Bury –The Philobiblon
• 1346
  • Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty) (editor) –History of Song (宋史,Sòng Shǐ)
• c. 1350
  • Baudouin de Sebourc (probably fromHainaut)
  • Prick of Conscience (Yorkshire)
  • White Book of Rhydderch
  • The Tale of Gamelyn (anonymous)
  • 'William' –William of Palerne (English translation)
• c. 1352
  • Bahubali Pandita of Sringeri –Dharmanathapuranam
  • Wynnere and Wastoure (anonymous)
• 1353
  • Giovanni Boccaccio –The Decameron
• c. 1355
  • Giovanni Boccaccio –Corbaccio
• c. 1360–84
  • John of Fordun –Chronica Gentis Scotorum
• 1365
  • Mpu Prapanca –Nagarakretagama
• c. 1367
  • William Langland (presumed author) –Piers Plowman (earliest likely date)
• 1368–71
  • Geoffrey Chaucer –The Book of the Duchess
• 1370
  • Bureau of History of theMing dynasty, under direction ofSong Lian –History of Yuan (元史,Yuán Shǐ)
• 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)
  • Ibn Marzuq –The Correct and Fine Traditions About the Glorious Deeds of our Master Abu 'l-Hasan (Musnad as-sahid al-hasan fi maʿathir mawlana Abi 'l Hasan)
• c. 1374
  • Beatrijs
• 1375
  • John Barbour –The Brus
• 1376
  • John Wycliffe –De civili dominio (On Civil Dominion)^[11]
• 1377
  • Ibn Khaldun –Muqaddimah (Prolegomena)
• 1378
  • Qu You –Jiandeng Xinhua (剪灯新话, "New stories told while trimming the wick")
• 1381
  • Amarkosh (अमरकोश,Sanskrit-Nepal Bhasa dictionary)
• 1382
  • Jacobus de Teramo –Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum
  • Red Book of Hergest (soon after this date)
• c. 1383
  • Sofonii of Razan –Zadonshchina
• 1384
  • Terç del Crestià, volume 3 ofLo Crestià^[12]
• Late 1380s
  • Walter Hilton –The Scale of Perfection
• 1387
  • John Trevisa – translation ofRanulf Higden'sPolychronicon, including "Dialogue on Translation Between a Lord and a Clerk"
• 1389
  • Gopalraj Vamshavali (गोपालराज वंशावली, a history of Nepal)
• c. 1390
  • Anonymous –The Forme of Cury (earliest cookbook in the English language)
• 1390
  • John Gower –Confessio Amantis
• 1390s
  • Geoffrey Chaucer –The Canterbury Tales
• 1395
  • LadyJulian of Norwich –Revelations of Divine Love, first published book inEnglish language to be written by a woman.^[13]
  • Mangaraja II –Mangaraja Nighantu (lexicon, 1398)
  • 'Pearl Poet'
    • Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
    • Pearl
    • Cleanness
    • Patience
  • 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
  • Bernat Metge -The Dream (Lo Somni), first humanist work in Catalan.
  • Christine de Pizan
    • Cent Ballades d'Amant et de Dame, Virelyas, Rondeaux
    • L'Épistre au Dieu d'amours
    • L'Épistre de Othéa a Hector
• Unknown
  • Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana
  • Epic of Sundiata
  • Grettis saga (approximate date)
  • Kavi Malla –Manmathavijaya
  • Peterborough Psalter

• Li Qianfu –Circle of Chalk (Chinese:灰闌記;pinyin:huīlán jì)
• c. 1350 –Misteri d'Elx (Valencian)
• 1358–76 –Katherine of Sutton (adaptations) –Depositio,Descensus Christi,Elevatio andVisitatio
• Late 14th century –Ordinalia (Middle Cornish)

• 1303 –Bridget of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter), Swedish mystic, writer and saint (died 1373)
• 1304 –Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Tuscan poet (died 1374)
• 1313 –Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (died 1375)
• c. 1315 or 1317 –Hafez, Persian poet (died 1390)
• 1320 –Lalleshwari, Kashmiri Hindu poet (died 1392)
• 1332:27 May –Ibn Khaldun, North African historiographer and philosopher (died 1406)
• c. 1332 –Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish mystic, writer and saint (died 1381)
• 1333 –Kan'ami (Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (観阿弥 清次), JapaneseNoh actor (died 1384)
• c. 1340–45 –Walter Hilton, English mystic writing in Latin and English (died 1396)
• c. November 1342 –Julian of Norwich, English religious writer and mystic (died c. 1416)
• 1343 –Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (died 1400)
• 1347 –Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian and saint (died 1380)
• 1348 –Jan of Jenštejn, Archbishop of Prague, writer, composer and poet (died 1400)
• c. 1363 –Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and playwright (died c. 1443)
• 1364 –Christine de Pizan, Venetian-born Middle French court poet and writer (died c. 1430)
• c. 1368 –Thomas Hoccleve, English poet and clerk (died 1426)
• c. 1373 –Margery Kempe, English mystic and autobiographer (died c. 1440)
• 1378 –Zhu Quan (朱權), Prince of Ning, Chinese military commander, feudal lord, historian and playwright (died 1448)
• 1384 –Enrique de Villena, Spanish writer, theologian and poet (died 1434)
• 1393 –John Capgrave, English historian and scholastic theologian (died 1464)
• 1398 –Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Castilian politician and poet (died 1458)

• After 1306 –Adam de la Halle, Frenchtrouvère poet (born c. 1237)
• 1308 –Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher and theologian (born c. 1266)
• 1309 –Angela of Foligno, Italian mystic and saint (born1248)
• 1310:1 June –Marguerite Porete, French mystic (burnt as heretic, year of birth unknown)
• 1315:10 March –Agnes Blannbekin, AustrianBeguine and Christian mystic (born c. 1244)
• c. 1315 –Ramon Llull, Majorcan polymath and novelist in Catalan (born c. 1232)
• 1321:14 September –Dante Alighieri, Italian poet (born c. 1265)^[14]
• 1325:
  • 7 January – KingDenis of Portugal, poet
  • October –Amir Khusrow, Sufi poet
• 1345:14 April –Richard de Bury, English bishop and bibliophile (born 1287)
• 1349: September –Richard Rolle, English hermit, mystic and religious writer (probably born between 1390 and 1400)
• c. 1350 –Yoshida Kenkō (吉田 兼好), Japanese author and Buddhist monk (probably born 1283)
• 1364:12 March –Ranulf Higden, English chronicler
• 1373:23 July –Bridget of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter), Swedish mystic, writer and saint^[15]
• 1374:19 July –Petrarch, Italian poet^[16]
• 1375:21 December –Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian poet^[17]
• 1377: April –Guillaume de Machaut, French poet and composer
• 1380:
  • 29 April –Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian and saint
  • 2 December –John of Ruysbroeck (Jan van Ruysbroeck), Flemish mystic (born 1293 or 1294)
• 1381:24 March –Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish mystic, writer and saint
• 1384:
  • 8 June –Kan'ami (Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, 観阿弥 清次), Japanese Noh playwright and actor (born 1333);
  • December –John Wycliffe, philosopher, translator and theologian (born c.1320);^[18]
  • Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, PersianSūfī, poet scholar.^[19]
• 1392 –Lalleshwari, Kashmiri Shaivite poet and mystic
• 1395:13 March –John Barbour, Scottish poet
• 1396:24 March –Walter Hilton, English Augustinian mystic writing in Latin and English (born c. 1340–45)
• 1400:25 October –Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (born c. 1343)^[2]

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