Medieval Literature Timeline

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476 CE - 1500 CE

Medieval literature written during the Middle Ages.
c. 600 CE - c. 900 CE

Beowulf composed in Britain, possibly in East Anglia.
c. 650 CE

Caedmon's Hymn composed at Whitney Abbey, Northumbria.
c. 650 CE

Dream vision poem The Dream of the Rood composed.
c. 995 CE

The Battle of Maldon composed.
c. 1040 CE

The epic poem Song of Roland composed in France.
c. 1160 CE - c. 1190 CE

Chretien de Troyes writes his chivalric romances in southern France.
c. 1319 CE

The Italian poet Dante Alighieri completes his epic the Divine Comedy.
1335 CE - 1341 CE

Giovanni Boccaccio writes his first poetry work, including Diana's Hunt, The Lovestruck, and Teseida.
c. 1353 CE

Giovanni Boccaccio completes his masterpiece, the Decameron.
c. 1370 CE

Chaucer writes his first long poem, Book of the Duchess.
c. 1392 CE

Chaucer writes his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales.
1485 CE

William Caxton publishes Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur.