11th Century In Literature

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

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Events

*c. 1000–1025 – The only surviving manuscript of ''Beowulf'' is written.
*1007 – The Book of Kells is probably stolen from the Abbey of Kells in Ireland for several months.
*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.
*1070
**The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is founded in the Vietnamese capital.
**King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians.
*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'' ( "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)
*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
*c. 1070 – '' Kathāsaritsāgara'' by Somadeva
*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
**''The Incoherence of the Philosophers'' (تهافت الفلاسفة, ) by Al-Ghazali
**''Lebor Gabála Érenn''
**'' Siyasatnama'' (سياست نامه) by Nizam al-Mulk (Persian)
*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

*c. 1001 – Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, al-Andalusian poet and princess (died 1091)
*c. 1003 – Ibn Zaydún, Arab poet (died 1071)
*c. 1033 – Anselm of Canterbury, Aosta-born scholastic philosopher, archbishop and saint (died 1109)
*1037: January 8 – Su Shi, Chinese poet (died 1101)
*1040: February 22 – Rashi, French rabbinical scholar (died 1105)
*1048: May 18 – Omar Khayyám, Persian philosopher, scientist and presumed poet (died 1131)
*1078: Ibn Quzman, al-Andalusian poet (died 1160)
*1079: Peter Abelard, French philosopher, theologian, and poet (died 1142)

Deaths

*1001 – Wang Yucheng, Chinese poet (born 954)
*c. 1002 – Hrotsvitha, Saxon secular canoness and writer of Latin poetry and drama (born c. 935)
*c. 1010 – Ælfric of Eynsham, abbot and religious writer in Old English (born c. 955)
*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

* 11th century in poetry
* 10th century in literature
* 12th century in literature
* list of years in literature

References

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Medieval literature
History of literature