This article is a list of literary events and publications in the 14th century. __TOC__
Events
1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse. 1324: 3 May (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 20 January and 21 September – The deposed King Edward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II". 6 April (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. 27 August – Death of Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester in England. His books are bequeathed to the University of Oxford where they are installed in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, forming the university's first library. 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. 1341: 8 April – Petrarch becomes poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome. 1357 – The Polychronicon concludes, Ranulf Higden having ceased work on it at least a dozen years earlier. 1360 – The future English writer Geoffrey Chaucer is captured by the French during the Reims campaign of the Hundred Years' War and ransomed by King Edward III of England. 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.
1370–1398 – Approximate date of production of the earliest part of the Sankt Florian Psalter, one of the earliest surviving texts to use the Polish language. 1372 – Old Permic alphabet introduced by Stephen of Perm. 1374 23 April: English writer Geoffrey Chaucer is granted a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life by order of King Edward III of England in recognition of his services. Ludolph of Saxony completes his Vita Christi, which appears first in book form in 1474 and becomes an influence on St Ignatius Loyola in the early 16th century. 1377 – Production of the earliest known copy of the Laurentian Codex. 1381: 30 May–November – Peasants' Revolt in England. Preacher John Ball apparently cites the poem Piers Plowman (which is revised during this decade) and John Gower includes an account of the events in his Vox Clamantis. On 15 June, the University 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!". The events inspire the late 16th century play The Life and Death of Jack Straw, Robert Southey's dramatic poem Wat Tyler (1794), and novels such as Pierce Egan the Younger's Wat Tyler (1841), William Harrison Ainsworth's Merry England (1874) and William Morris's A Dream of John Ball (1886). 1382 – Earliest recorded appearance of Wycliffe's Bible. 1384 – Henry of Langenstein writes his letter, De scismate, to Echard von Dersch, Bishop of Worms.Sommerfeldt, Historisches Jahrbuch (Munich, 1909), XXX, 46–61 1386: October – Geoffrey Chaucer is obliged to give up most of his official offices in London and retires to Kent where he may work on The Canterbury Tales. 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 Kiev Rus. 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. unknown dates 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. The Bardo Thodol is revealed to the tertön Karma Lingpa.
New works c. 1300 Anonymous – Gesta Romanorum Taliesin – Book of Taliesin, Middle Welsh. Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599) is 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 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-Wahhāb al-Nuwayri – The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition (encyclopedia of Muslim knowledge) Anonymous Middle 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 in Tabriz, 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 The Book 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 to Andrew 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 of The 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) Odoric of Pordenone – Relatio 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 and The 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 from Hainaut) 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 the Ming dynasty, under direction of Song 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)History Today, Vol. 65/5, May 2015 Retrieved 4 May 2017. 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 of Lo CrestiàFrancesc Eiximenis. Història de la nostra gastronomia Article by Juan A. FernándezSóller, 29 May 2010, p. 18 Late 1380s Walter Hilton – The Scale of Perfection 1387 John Trevisa – translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, 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 Lady Julian of Norwich – Revelations of Divine Love, first published book in English language to be written by a woman. 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 "Richard the Redeless" Unknown Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana Epic of Sundiata Grettis saga (approximate date) Kavi Malla – Manmathavijaya Peterborough Psalter
Drama Li Qianfu – Circle of Chalk () c. 1350 – Misteri d'Elx (Valencian) 1358–76 – Katherine of Sutton (adaptations) – Depositio, Descensus Christi, Elevatio and Visitatio Late 14th century – Ordinalia (Middle Cornish)
Births 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)