France Composed: ca. 1040-1115 CEEarliest extant manuscript: ca. 1129-1165 CE Anonymous The Song of Roland (La chanson de Roland) Halt sunt li pui e li val tenebrus… the high hills and foreboding valleys of the Pyrenees pass at Rencesvals reverberate with...
Ireland 11th century (earliest extant version) Anonymous, Táin Bó Cúailnge Táin Bó Cúailnge (‘The Cattle Raid of Cooley’) is a complicated work. While its plot is relatively simple, it is difficult to introduce, especially as an epic, because of its textual...
Iran 12th century CE Farid ud din Attar Manṭiq Al-Ṭayr (The Conference of the Birds) This book is an ornament for the ages.It offers something for both the high and low.If you came sad and frozen to this book,its hidden fire will blaze and melt...
France c. 1170 Fierabras Introduction commissioned. Contributor NameUniversity Affiliation Works Cited (if applicable) Works Cited Resources BibliographyImagesWebsitesPerformances Editions: Fierabras, edited by Marc Le Person (Champion, 2003), who also...
France extant poem compiled in parts between c. 1130 and 1175/80 Anonymous La Chanson de Guillaume Although known only through one complete manuscript and two fragments, all thirteenth-century Anglo-Norman, La Chanson de Guillaume originated in continental...
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