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.

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All labels observed (62)

Label	Occurrences
medieval literary work canonical	24
medieval work	14
medieval Latin work	12
medieval Latin text	10
medieval Latin chronicle	8
medieval historical work	6
medieval literature work	5
medieval narrative	5
Anglo-Saxon literature	4
Old Javanese literary work	4
medieval Jewish philosophical work	4
Heian-period literature	3
Heian-period work	3
Old English prose work	3
Old French literary work	3
medieval Cornish literary work	3
medieval Indian literature	3
Canterbury Tales tale	2
Middle Scots literature	2
Old English literature	2
medieval Arabic literature	2
medieval Icelandic saga	2
medieval Latin narrative	2
medieval Serbian literary work	2
medieval historiographical work	2
medieval philosophical work	2
medieval religious work	2
Celtic literary work	1
Medieval literary work	1
Middle Cornish literature	1
Middle High German literature	1
Old English homiletic work	1
Old English prose treatise	1
Old French literature	1
Old Russian literary work	1
Slavic literary monument	1
medieval Anglo-Norman verse narrative	1
medieval Arabic epic romance	1
medieval Armenian literary work	1
medieval Bengali narrative poem cycle	1
medieval Bengali narrative poetry	1
medieval Cornish poem	1
medieval French literary work	1
medieval Icelandic literary genre	1
medieval Kannada literature work	1
medieval Korean literature	1
medieval Latin historical work	1
medieval Latin literature	1
medieval Latin poetry	1
medieval Spanish literature	1
medieval Welsh chronicle	1
medieval Welsh literary work	1
medieval Welsh prose collection	1
medieval devotional genre	1
medieval epic	1
medieval epic poem	1
medieval grammatical treatise	1
medieval lexicographical work	1
medieval narrative poem	1
medieval narrative poetry	1
medieval play	1
medieval prophetic text	1

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Class: medieval literary work

Generated description

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.

Instances (166)

Instance	Via concept surface
De rhetorica et virtutibus	medieval Latin work
De dialectica	medieval work
Saga of the Greenlanders	medieval literature work
Adversus Judaeos	medieval Latin text
Carmina (poems)	medieval Latin poetry
Saga of Erik the Red	—
Annales Mettenses priores	medieval Latin chronicle
History of the Lombards	medieval historiographical work
Historia Langobardorum	medieval Latin work
Gesta Episcoporum Mettensium	medieval Latin chronicle
Pouchenie Vladimira Monomakha	Old Russian literary work
Íslendingasögur	medieval Icelandic literary genre
Saga of Harald Fairhair	—
Saga of Olaf Tryggvason	medieval narrative
Saga of Magnus the Good	—
Saga of Inge, Son of Harald	—
The Circle of the World	—
The Saga of the People of Laxardal	—
The Great Book of Music	medieval work
Cantar de mio Cid	medieval Spanish literature
Life of Saint Sava (self-hagiography attributed)	medieval Serbian literary work
Kanli Koca Oglu Kan Turali Boyu	medieval narrative
Saga of Harald Hardrada	medieval narrative
Saga of Hákon the Good	medieval narrative
Saga of Hákon Herdebrei	medieval Icelandic saga
Saga of Magnus Erlingsson	medieval literature work
Njáls saga	—
The Wars of the Lord	medieval Jewish philosophical work
Egils saga Skalla-Grímssonar	medieval literature work
Yamato Monogatari	Heian-period literature
Tosa Nikki	Heian-period work
Makura no Sōshi	Heian-period literature
Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal	Old French literary work
Peter Lombard’s Sentences	medieval Latin work
La Vita Nuova	—
La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri surface form: La Vita Nuova	—
Kitab al-Jamahir fi Ma’rifat al-Jawahir	medieval work
Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana by Ralph of Caen surface form: Gesta Tancredi in expeditione Hierosolymitana	medieval historiographical work
Historia Ierosolimitana by Robert the Monk surface form: Historia Ierosolimitana	medieval Latin chronicle
Historia Hierosolymitana by Baldric of Dol surface form: Historia Hierosolymitana	medieval historical work
Liber ad Almansorem	medieval work
De variolis et morbillis	medieval work
Arjunawiwaha	Old Javanese literary work
Anselm's Proslogion	medieval Latin text
The Chronicle	medieval historical work
"Tawq al-Hamama" (The Ring of the Dove) surface form: Tawq al-Hamama	medieval Arabic literature
Samguk Yusa	medieval Korean literature
The Wonders of the East	—
Ælfric’s Glossary	medieval lexicographical work
Showings	medieval religious work