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11th century in literature

List of years in literature (table)
  • 1001
  • 1002
  • 1003
  • 1004
  • 1005
  • 1006
  • 1007
  • 1008
  • 1009
  • 1010
  • 1011
  • 1012
  • 1013
  • 1014
  • 1015
  • 1016
  • 1017
  • 1018
  • 1019
  • Art
  • Archaeology
  • Architecture
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Philosophy

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in the 11th century.

See also: 11th century in poetry, 10th century in literature, 12th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

  • c. 1000–1025 – The only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is written.
  • 1016 – The Icelandic skald Bersi Skáldtorfuson is captured at the naval Battle of Nesjar and imprisoned.
  • c. 1022 – Nannayya, Aadi Kavi ("the first poet"), begins work on Andhra Mahabharatam, a translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu and the first work of Telugu literature.
  • 1029 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni orders the library of Rey in Persia to be burned and all books to be deemed as heretical.[1]
  • 1070
  • 1080–1086 – The Chinese poet and polymath Su Shi is sent into internal exile for political reasons. During this period he writes the first and second Chibifu (赤壁賦 "The Red Cliffs").
  • 1086 – Poet-ruler of Al-Andalus, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, kills his fellow-poet, former lover and vizier Muhammad ibn Ammar.

New works

  • 1000
    • Al-Tasrif (كتاب التصريف لمن عجز عن التأليف The Method of Medicine), by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi (Abulcasis)
    • The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries (کتاب الآثار الباقية عن القرون الخالية Kitāb al-āthār al-bāqiyah `an al-qurūn al-khāliyah), by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
  • c. 1000 – The Battle of Maldon (Old English)[3]
  • c. 1008–10 – The Diary of Lady Murasaki (紫式部日記 Murasaki Shikibu Nikki), by Murasaki Shikibu (in kana script)
  • 1010: March 8 (completed) – Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
  • 1011 – Manual (Enchiridion) by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey
  • 1012–18 – Chronicon Thietmari by Thietmar of Merseburg
  • By 1018 – Confessio Theologica by John of Fécamp
  • 1019 – Legenda Sancti Goeznovii by 'William'
  • By 1021 – The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari), by Murasaki Shikibu
  • 1021 – Book of Optics by Alhazen
  • 1025 – The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna
  • 1027 – The Book of Healing by Avicenna
  • 1026–46 – Historiarum libri quinque ab anno incarnationis DCCCC usque ad annum MXLIV (History in five books from AD 900–1044) by Rodulfus Glaber
  • c. 1040–44 – Wujing Zongyao (武經總要, "Collection of the Most Important Military Techniques") by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, Yang Weide and others
  • c. 1040–53 – Mukhtar al-hikam wa mahasin al-kalim (Choice Maxims and Finest Sayings), by al-Mubashshir ibn Fatiq
  • 1041–42 – Encomium Emmae Reginae probably by a Flemish monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer
  • Mid-11th century – Sponsus
  • After c. 1040 – Le Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), original version, perhaps by Turold
  • c. 1049 – Chronicle of Nantes (Chronicon Namnetense) concludes
  • c. 1054–76 – Cançó de Santa Fe by an anonymous clerk in a Catalan dialect of Old Occitan
  • After 1056 – Liber precum variarum by John of Fécamp
  • 1064 – Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years") by Sima Guang
  • 1066 – by Sima Guang
    • Leipian (類篇 Classified Chapters; Chinese dictionary)
    • Tongzhi (通志 Comprehensive Records (of Chinese history))
  • 1070 – Kutadgu Bilig (The Wisdom Which Brings Good Fortune), by Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate (Uyghur language)
  • c. 1070 – Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (浜松中納言物語), attributed to Takasue's Daughter
  • 1073–76 – Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by Adam of Bremen
  • c. 1075 – Vita sancta Servatii and Miracula sancta Servatii (life and miracles of Saint Servatius) by Jocundus
  • 1077 – Monologion (Monologue) by Anselm
  • 1077–78 – Proslogion (Address) by Anselm
  • 1084 –Zizhi Tongjian (資治通鑑; Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government) by Sima Guang
  • 1086 – Domesday Book
  • c. 1087 – Almanac by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel)
  • 1088 – Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談, Mèng Xī Bǐ Tán) by Shen Kuo
  • 1098 – Elucidarium by Honorius Augustodunensis
  • Late 11th century
  • 11th or 12th century – Betha Meic Creiche (Life of Mac Creiche, in Middle Irish)
  • c. 11th century – The Records of Origin on Things and Affairs (事物纪原), by Gao Cheng
  • Heian period
    • Sarashina Nikki (更級日記, a travel diary) by Takasue's Daughter
    • Yoru no Nezame (夜の寝覚, Wakefulness at Night), attributed to Takasue's Daughter, but perhaps written after 1086

Births

Deaths

  • 1001 – Wang Yucheng, Chinese poet (born 954)[5]
  • c. 1002 – Hrotsvitha, Saxon secular canoness and writer of Latin poetry and drama (born c. 935)
  • 1029 – Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍), Japanese waka poet
  • 1037 – Avicenna (Ibn-Sīnā), Persian polymath
  • 1064: August 15 – Ibn Hazm (al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī), Andalusian polymath (born 994)
  • 1079: February 22 – John of Fécamp, Italian-born Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer

In literature

  • Paul Kingsnorth's novel The Wake (2014) is set around the Norman conquest of England.

See also

References

  1. ^ Mackensen, Ruth Stellhorn (January 1935). "Moslem Libraries and Sectarian Propaganda". The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures. 51 (2): 93–94. doi:10.1086/370447. S2CID 170296340.
  2. ^ Aquino, Michael. "Temple of Literature – Ancient University in Hanoi, Vietnam". About.com. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  3. ^ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. p. 47. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  4. ^ a b Westfahl, Gary (2015). A Day in a Working Life: 300 Trades and Professions through History [3 volumes]: 300 Trades and Professions through History. ABC-CLIO. p. 418. ISBN 9781610694032.
  5. ^ "王禹偁 954–1001". worldcat.org. Retrieved 1 July 2017.
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