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 natura boni	medieval Latin work
Legenda sanctorum	—
On the Difference between the Spirit and the Soul	medieval work
On the Benefits of the Parts of the Human Body	medieval work
On the Rectification of the Temperaments	medieval work
Summa Theologiae	medieval Latin text
Kakawin Smaradahana	Old Javanese literary work
Fourth Part of the General estoria	medieval historical work
English History	medieval Latin chronicle
De sacro altaris mysterio	medieval Latin work
Song of Amergin	Celtic literary work
Liber fundationis ecclesiae Sancti Bartholomei (Book of the Foundation of St Bartholomew's) surface form: Liber fundationis ecclesiae Sancti Bartholomei	medieval Latin narrative
Breton lai	medieval narrative poem
The Tale of Melibee	Canterbury Tales tale
Sequence of Saint Eulalia	—
chronicles of Fulcher of Chartres surface form: Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres	medieval Latin chronicle