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
Second Series of Catholic Homilies	Old English prose work
Light of the Intellect	medieval Jewish philosophical work
Gesta Regum Anglorum	medieval historical work
Historia Novella	medieval Latin chronicle
work "Kakawin Arjunawijaya" surface form: Kakawin Arjunawijaya	Old Javanese literary work
Guthlac poems	Anglo-Saxon literature
Gesta Pontificum Anglorum	medieval Latin historical work
Exodus (Old English poem)	Anglo-Saxon literature
Vita nuova	—
Pseudo-Isidorean Decretals	medieval Latin text
The Song of Roland	Old French literary work
Abhangas of Namdev	medieval Indian literature
Ordinalia	medieval Cornish literary work
Pascon agan Arluth	medieval Cornish poem
Beunans Meriasek	medieval Cornish literary work
Beunans Ke	medieval Cornish literary work
Mabinogion	medieval Welsh prose collection
Welsh Triads	medieval Welsh literary work
Hilchot Teshuvah	medieval Jewish philosophical work
Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard	medieval Latin work
Legenda maior S. Francisci	medieval Latin text
Chronicon Æthelweardi	medieval Latin text
Ynglinga saga	—
Sefer ha-Mispar	medieval work
Vita Geraldi Auriliacensis	medieval Latin text
Sermones	medieval Latin work
Opus Tertium	medieval Latin work
Manasamangal	medieval Bengali narrative poem cycle
Dharmamangal	medieval Bengali narrative poetry
Vijayanagara literature	medieval Indian literature
Summa Logicae	medieval work
Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico	medieval Latin work
David of Sassoun cycle	medieval epic
Poetic Edda	—
Prose Edda	—
Queste del Saint Graal	—
Estoire del Saint Graal	—
Perceval, le Conte du Graal	Old French literary work
Book of Dede Korkut	—
Annales Hersfeldenses	medieval Latin chronicle
Origo Gentis Langobardorum	medieval Latin text
Laxdæla saga	medieval Icelandic saga
Grettis saga	Medieval literary work
Dalālat al-ḥāʾirīn	medieval Jewish philosophical work
Vita Merlini	—
Scotichronicon	medieval Latin chronicle
Orygynale Cronykil of Scotland	Middle Scots literature
Kokin Wakashū	Heian-period work
the Guillaume d’Orange epic cycle surface form: Guillaume d’Orange epic cycle	medieval French literary work
The Pillow Book	Heian-period literature