14th century in literature

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This article is a list of literary events and publications in the 14th century.


Events

Petrarch (1304-1374)
Yoshida Kenkō

New works

Drama

Births

  • 1303 – Bridget of Sweden (Birgitta Birgersdotter), Swedish mystic, writer and saint (died 1373)
  • 1304 – Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) Tuscan poet (died 1374)
  • 1313 – Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer (died 1375)
  • c. 1315 or 1317 – Hafez, Persian poet (died 1390)
  • 1320 – Lalleshwari, Kashmiri Hindu poet (died 1392)
  • 1332: 27 May – Ibn Khaldun, North African historiographer and philosopher (died 1406)
  • c. 1332 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish mystic, writer and saint (died 1381)
  • 1333 – Kan'ami (Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (観阿弥 清次), Japanese Noh actor (died 1384)
  • c. 1340–45 – Walter Hilton, English mystic writing in Latin and English (died 1396)
  • c. November 1342 – Julian of Norwich, English religious writer and mystic (died c. 1416)
  • 1343 – Geoffrey Chaucer, English poet (died 1400)
  • 1347 – Catherine of Siena, Italian theologian and saint (died 1380)
  • 1348 – Jan of JenÅ¡tejn, Archbishop of Prague, writer, composer and poet (died 1400)
  • c. 1363 – Zeami Motokiyo (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and playwright (died c. 1443)
  • September 1364 – Christine de Pizan, Venetian-born Middle French court poet and writer (died c. 1430)
  • c. 1368 – Thomas Hoccleve, English poet and clerk (died 1426)
  • c. 1373 – Margery Kempe, English mystic and autobiographer (died c. 1440)
  • 1378 – Zhu Quan (朱權), Prince of Ning, Chinese military commander, feudal lord, historian and playwright (died 1448)
  • 1384 – Enrique de Villena, Spanish writer, theologian and poet (died 1434)
  • 1393 – John Capgrave, English historian and scholastic theologian (died 1464)
  • 1398 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Castilian politician and poet (died 1458)

Deaths

See also

References

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