medieval literary work

C12780 concept

A medieval literary work is a written or orally transmitted text from roughly the 5th to the 15th century that reflects the cultural, religious, and social contexts of the Middle Ages through genres such as epics, romances, hagiographies, chronicles, and lyric poetry.

Observed surface forms (9)

  • Heian-period literature ×1
  • Heian-period work ×1
  • Medieval literary work ×1
  • Old Javanese literary work ×1
  • medieval Icelandic saga ×1
  • medieval Jewish philosophical work ×1
  • medieval Latin chronicle ×1
  • medieval Latin text ×1
  • medieval Latin work ×1

Instances (13)