Jillian's Medieval SuperTimeline for Exams
Category: Other
Updated: 2 May 2022
Placing literature of medieval England with a focus on the 12th-15th centuries in its global context.
Contributors
Created byJillian Kern
Attachments
Events
Julius Caesar conquers "Celtica"Construction of Hadrian's WallFall of RomeFounding of The Knights TemplarTacitus writes "Agricola"Snorri Sturluson writes the "Prose Edda""Beowulf" composed btwn. 700-50"Vǫlsunga Saga" composedibn Fadlan writes travel accountNorman Conquest of EnglandMargery Kempe dictates "Book"Beowulf setting"Poetic Edda" MS copiedextant "Volsunga Saga" MS copied"Nibelungenlied" composedJoan of Arc at Siege of OrléansThe Black DinnerAugustine writes "Confessiones"Great Wall of ChinaMalory writes "Le Morte d'Arthur"Danse Macabre motif appears"Grettis Saga" written"Three Dead Kings" writtenChristine de Pizan writes "The Book of the City of Ladies"Charlemagne addresses "Epistola de litteris colendis"Wolfram van Eschenbach composes "Parzival"Thomas of Britain writes "Tristan"Bank of Venice established"Wonders of the East" writtenAbelard writes "Historia Calamitum"Pearl poet writesSt. Jerome translates Latin BiblePlato writes TimaeusManichaeism founded by prophet ManiOvid writes "Metamorphoses"Virgil writes "Aeneid"Augustine writes "City of God"Macrobius writes "Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis"Boethius writes "De consolatione philosophiae"Gildas writes "De excidio et conquestu Britanniae"Bede writes "Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum"Alfred translates Gregory's "Pastoral Care""Advent Lyrics" written"The Wanderer" written"The Seafarer" written"Widsith" composed"Wulf and Eadwacer" composedOld English "Riddles" written"The Wife's Lament" and "The Husband's Message""The Dream of the Rood" earliest compositionVercelli Book MS copiedNowell Codex MS copiedWulfstan writes "Sermo Lupi ad Anglos" 1010-1016William of Malmesbury writes "Gesta Regum Anglorum"Geoffrey of Monmouth writes "Historia regum Britanniae"Geffrei Gaimar writes "L'Estoire des Engleis"Chrétien writes "Érec et Énide"Chrétien writes "Cligès"Chrétien writes "Yvain"Chrétien writes "Lancelot"Chrétien writes "Perceval"Laȝamon writes "Brut"Walter Map writes "De nugis curialum"Gerald of Wales writes "Itinerarium Cambriae"Dante writes "Divina Commedia"Dante writes "La Vita Nuova"Robert Manning writes "Handlyng Synne""The Owl and the Nightingale" c. 1189-1216"Floris and Blancheflour" written (ME)"Sir Orfeo" written"Richard Coeur de Lion" writtenChaucer writes "Anelida and Arcite"Chaucer writes "Book of the Duchess"Chaucer writes "House of Fame"Chaucer writes "Legend of Good Women"Chaucer writes "Parliament of Fowls"Gower writes "Confessio Amantis"Gower writes "Visio anglie"Langland writes "Piers Plowman"Julian's "Revelations" (long text)Julian's "Shewings" (short text)Hoccleve adapts "Letter of Cupid" from Christine de PIzan's Epistre au dieu d'amoursHoccleve writes "The Series""Cloud of Unknowing" writtenDigby "Mary Magdalene" play composition"Mary Magdalene" copied in Bodleian MS Digby 133"Mankind" writtenGeoffrey of Monmouth writes "Vita Merlini"Marie de France writes "Lais"Marie de France writes "Fables"Marie de France writes "Espurgatoire Seint Patriz"Grossteste writes "Chastel d'Amors"Thomas writes "Romans d'Horn""Folie Tristan d'Oxford" written"Havelok the Dane" written (ME)"Lai de Haveloc" written"Amis and Amiloun" written (ME)Amis e Amilun (AN)Marguerite Porete writes "Le Mirouer des simples âmes"Guillaume de Lorris writes "Roman de la Rose"Jean de Meun continues "Roman de la Rose""Ancrene Wisse" written"Dame Siriþ" written"Tristan en prose" written"King Horn" written (ME)Chaucer writes "Troilus and Criseyde"New
event"King of Tars" writtenAlliterative "Morte Arthure" writtenStanzaic "Morte Arthur" written"The Turke and Sir Gawain" written"The Tale of Gamelyn" written"Beves of Hamtoun" written"Athelston" writtenPeriods
Kievan Rus'Habsburg DynastyRepublic of VeniceThe Hanseatic LeagueAutonomous Cherokee Political IntegrationAliʻi ʻAimoku Dynasties (Hawai'i)Classic Māori PeriodRajahnate of CebuSrivijaya EmpireKoryŏ KingdomKingdom of JoseonKingdom of ButuanChola DynastyPandyas of MaduraiChera DynastyThule ExpansionChimú EmpireCoast Salish Cultures (autonomous)Ghana EmpireMali EmpireSonghai EmpireKingdom of MapungubweGreat Zimbabwean EmpireKingdom of MutapaWessex Kingdom of EnglandKingdom of KongoEthiopian EmpireKanem-Bornu EmpireMarinid SultanateCrown of CastileCrown of AragonVisigothic KingdomKingdom of PortugalGrand Duchy of MoscowMamluk SultanateKingdom of AksumFatimid CaliphateGaelic IrelandCatharismDelhi SultanatePeriod sometimes called LATE ANTIQUITYENGLISH MIDDLE AGESThe period generally called CLASSICAL ANTIQUITYThe First CrusadeThe "Migration Period" and "Viking Age" of EuropeThe Iron Age of European regionsThe "Black Death" first ravages Western EuropeWaves of plagueInvestiture ContestHoly Roman EmpireOral circulation of "Poetic Edda" materialByzantine (Eastern Roman) EmpireOttoman EmpireNorth Sea EmpireNorman England and IrelandPlantagenet EnglandHundred Years WarDanelaw in Angle-landAenglisc KingdomsTudor EnglandKingdom of France (Capetian Dynasty)Carolingian EmpireMerovingian Dynasty(Western) Roman EmpireRoman RepublicOstrogothic Kingdom of ItalyHunnic EmpireSeljuk EmpireSassanid EmpireKingdom of Denmark"Viking" settlement of IcelandMongol EmpireKamakura ShogunateHeian Period of Classical JapanImperial House of Japan (皇室)Ashikaga ShogunateNorthern and Southern Dynasties (China)Khitan Empire (Liao Dynasty)Song DynastyTang DynastyYuan (Mongol) DynastyMing DynastyJin DynastyGupta EmpireMaya Civilization (Classic Period)Aztec EmpireLeague of MayapanToltec EmpireMississippian Civilization and ChiefdomsHaudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy)Inca EmpireHuari EmpireMarajoaran cultureClassic Hohokam CultureAncestral Puebloan CultureTimurid EmpireUmmayad DynastyWar of the RosesAbbasid CaliphateGolden Horde (Mongol)Volga BulgariaMedieval Inquisition(s)Mongol Il-Khanate(Mongol) Chagatai KhanateJunius MS copiedExeter Book MS copied"Genesis B" translated from Old Saxon"Judith" writtenBernard of Clairvaux writes "Sermones super Cantica CanticorumPetrarch writes "Canzoniere"Chaucer writes "The Canterbury Tales"Brigitte of Sweden confesses "RevelationsYork Cycle PlaysBéroul writes "TristanHadewijch's "Visions"
Comments