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Beowulf is an epic poem in Old English set in the pagan world of 6th-century Scandinavia. It was likely written in the early decades of the eleventh century.
The Beowulf poet, writing in the first decades of the eleventh century after Christianity had reached Britain, describes events set centuries before, involving Scandanavian pagans sometime between 700 – 800 CE.
Marie de France was an Anglo-French writer of tales, fables, and at least one hagiography.
"Lanval" is one of twelve extant Breton lais by Marie de France. The lais are chivalric tales written in Anglo Norman.
Francesco Petrarca (July 20, 1304 – July 18/19, 1374) was a key figure in the Italian Renaissance.
Il Canzoniere (Song Book), also known as the Rime Sparse (Scattered Rhymes).
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The anonymous author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is known variously as the Gawain Poet and the Pearl Poet, after The Pearl, one of the four poems bound together in the Cotton MS Nero A X: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience. The poems were likely composed towards the end of the fourteenth century but the Cotton MS, the only surviving manuscript, was written by a different scribe, probably early in the fifteenth century.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight was probably composed in the West-Midlands region of Britain at the end of the fourteenth century and written out early in the fifteenth.
