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Overview of the events of the 1100s in literature
Overview of the events of 1110 in literature
Scribe of
Eadwine Psalter (mid-12th century, English)
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 12th century .
The 12th century in Western Europe saw an increase in the production of Latin texts and a proliferation of literate clerics from the multiplying cathedral schools. At the same time, vernacular literatures ranging from Provençal to Icelandic embodied in lyric and romance the values and worldview of an increasingly self-conscious and prosperous courtly aristocracy. These two trends contributed to a sweeping revival of letters with a lasting influence on the development of literature in the following centuries.
Events
1104:
September 3 –
St. Cuthbert is reburied in
Durham Cathedral (England) and the
St. Cuthbert Gospel of St. John removed from his tomb.
1170: Poet, politician and historian
Lu You (陸游) travels on the
Grand Canal (China) from
Shaoxing to the river
Yangtze , recording his progress in a diary.
[1]
Before 1173:
Copenhagen Psalter produced in northern England
1170:
29 December – Archbishop of Canterbury
Thomas Becket is assassinated in
Canterbury Cathedral , an event that inspires several plays, notably:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's
Becket (
1884 ),
[2]
T. S. Eliot 's
Murder in the Cathedral (
1935 ),
[3]
Jean Anouilh 's
Becket (Becket, ou l'honneur de Dieu ,
1959 )
[4] and Paul Webb's
Four Nights in Knaresborough (
1999 ).
[5] It also features in novels such as
Conrad Ferdinand Meyer 's
Der Heilige ("The Saint",
1879 ),
[6]
Ken Follett 's
The Pillars of the Earth (1989)
[7] and
Sharon Kay Penman 's
Time and Chance (2002).
[8]
c. 1193 : The university and its libraries at
Nalanda in India are sacked and burned by
Turkic invader
Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji ; the burning of the library is said to have continued for several months.
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
Histories
Philosophy/theology
Biography/Hagiography
Epic/Saga/Chanson de Geste
Romance
Fable/Allegory
Drama
Lyric
Linguistics
Topography
Treatises
Encyclopedias
Authors
Born 1100/1110:
Geoffrey of Monmouth , Welsh chronicler (died 1155)
Died 1101: August 24
Su Shi (蘇軾), Chinese poet (born
1037 )
Died 1105: July 13
Rashi , French
rabbinical scholar (born
1040 )
Killed 1106:
Máel Muire mac Céilechair , Irish monk and scribe
Born 1109:
April 21 –
Anselm of Canterbury ,
Aostan -born archbishop and philosopher (born c.
1033 )
Born 1110:
Aelred of Rievaulx , writer and abbot (died 1167)
Born c. 1110:
Wace ,
Jèrriais poet (died after 1174)
Born c. 1110:
Lawrence of Durham , English poet, hagiographer and bishop (died 1154)
Died 1118:
Florence (Florentius) of Worcester , English chronicler and monk
Born 1121/2:
Khaqani , Persian poet (died 1190)
Born 1125:
October 17 –
Lu You (陸游), Chinese poet (died
1209 )
Died
c. 1126 :
Eadmer , English ecclesiastic and historian (born c.
1060 )
Born
c. 1130 :
Akka Mahadevi , female
Indian
Kannada language
Vachana sahitya didactic poet (died 1160)
Died 1131: December 4
Omar Khayyám , Persian philosopher, scientist and presumed poet (born
1048 )
Born
c. 1141 :
Nizami Ganjavi , Seljuk Empire Persian romantic epic poet (died
1209 )
Born
c. 1146 :
Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis),
Cambro-Norman churchman and topographer (died c.
1223 )
Died
c. 1157 :
Henry of Huntingdon , English historian writing in Latin
Died 1160:
Ibn Quzman ,
al-Andalusian poet (born
1078 )
Born 1162:
Fujiwara no Teika (Fujiwara no Sadaie, 藤原定家) Japanese
waka poet, calligrapher and scholar (died
1241 )
Died 1167:
January 12 –
Aelred of Rievaulx , writer and abbot (born 1100)
Fl. 1180s:
Joseph of Exeter , English poet writing in Latin
Fl. 1180s: H[enry] of Saltrey, English Cistercian monk writing in Latin
Born
c. 1197 :
Gonzalo de Berceo , Castilian poet (died by
1264 )
Fl. late 12th century:
Chrétien de Troyes , Old French poet
12th or 13th century:
Berechiah ha-Nakdan , Jewish exegete, poet and philosopher
12th century:
Jocelyn de Brakelond , English chronicler and monk
See also
References
^ Lu, You (2007). Watson, Philip (ed.). Grand Canal, Great River: the travel diary of a twelfth-century Chinese poet . London: Frances Lincoln.
ISBN
9780711227194 .
^ Shirlee Emmons; Wilbur Watkins Lewis (22 December 2005).
Researching the Song:A Lexicon . Oxford University Press, USA. p. 443.
ISBN
978-0-19-803469-8 .
^ Randy Malamud (1992).
T.S. Eliot's Drama: A Research and Production Sourcebook . Greenwood Press. p. 67.
ISBN
978-0-313-27813-6 .
^ Leonard Cabell Pronko.
The World of Jean Anouilh . University of California Press. p. 56.
^ Billington, Michael (11 November 1999).
"Look back in rancour" .
The Guardian . London. Retrieved 22 May 2007 .
^ Conrad Ferdinand Meyer (March 1976).
The Complete Narrative Prose of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer . Bucknell University Press. p. 271.
ISBN
978-0-8387-1036-4 .
^ Ken Follett (2014).
The Pillars of the Earth . Pan Books. p. 1075.
ISBN
978-1-4472-6544-3 .
^
"Fiction Book Review: Time and Chance" . Publishers Weekly . Retrieved 8 January 2021 .
^
Minhaj-i-Siraj (1260),
Tabaqat-i Nasiri
^
Allen, Charles (2002). The Buddha and the Sahibs . London: John Murray.
^ Scott, David (May 1995). "Buddhism and Islam: Past to Present Encounters and Interfaith Lessons". Numen . 42 (2): 141–155.
doi :
10.1163/1568527952598657 .
JSTOR
3270172 .
^ Sen, Gertrude Emerson (1964). The Story of Early Indian Civilization . Orient Longmans.
OCLC
610346317 .
^ Abridged in
Flores Historiarum .
The Cambridge History of English and American Literature
vol. II , chapter XIII, section 10.