Portal:Medieval texts
This is an index of books or other texts from the Middle Ages (in English versions that may be linked to their original sources on other language wikis).
Medieval Texts covers all works originally written during the Middle Ages and early Renaissance; we can roughly define the period covered by this category to be about 600-1500 A.D. Texts written before that belong in Portal:Ancient and Classical texts.
Sometimes it is unclear whether a text should be considered "classical" or "medieval," especially because some texts continued to be revised, redacted and expanded over the course of many centuries, such that dating them becomes impossible. In case of doubt, upload the book in the category you think most readers would be most likely to look for it. This is no harm in listing it in both categories, if justified.
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- Beatrijs (mid-13th century) (Dutch original)
- Beowulf (ca. 700) Old English original
- Blow northerne wynd! – 14th century Middle English poem
- Cantar del Mío Cid, original Spanish
- Egils Saga – Icelandic original
- Five Middle English poems – 13th–14th century
- The High History of the Holy Graal – translated from Old French into English
- Hildebrandslied (ca. 800) Bavarian original and modern German
- A Hymn to the Virgin – 14th century poem
- The Laxdaela Saga – English translation of Old Icelandic
- Lines from Love Letters – 14th century poem, macaronic in Middle English, Middle French, and Latin
- Merseburger Zaubersprüche – 9th or 10th century Old High German spell
- Pangur Bán - An Old Irish poem about a monk and his cat
- Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet – The first story of the Mabinogion, in Middle Welsh
- Scél Mucci Mic Dathó – The Story of Mac Dathó's Pig, Middle Irish legend
- Stilfrid and Brunswik – 14th century Czech stories, translated 1879
- St. Patrick's Breastplate – Old Irish
- Three Old Irish poems – Verses in the St. Gall Priscian manuscript
- Versus de scachis – 997
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- Dante Alighieri
- De vulgari eloquentia
- De monarchia
- Il Convivio
- Vita Nuova
- The Divine Comedy
- Inferno
- Purgatorio
- Paradiso
- The Divine Comedy in the original Italian
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- Desiderius Erasmus
- Moriae encomium The Praise of Folly (Latin original)
- Meister Eckhart
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- Judah Halevi
- Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari)
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- Ballade des pendus by François Villon
- Ballade du bon conseil by François Villon
- La ballata degli impiccati by François Villon
- The Battle of Ross na Ríg - anonymous Irish legend, circa 1160
- Beatrijs (mid-13th century) (Dutch original)
- Beowulf (ca. 700) Old English original
- Blow northerne wynd! - anonymous 14th century Middle English poem
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- Cædmon's Hymn, Old English original
- Cantar del Mío Cid, original Spanish
- Cantico de Frate Sole by Francis of Assisi
- Canzoniere by Petrarch
- Catena aurea by Thomas Aquinas
- Carter Caritatis, by Stephen Harding, Translation into English
- Cligès by Chrétien de Troyes
- Commentaire de la logique d'Aristote by Thomas Aquinas
- Il Convivio by Dante Alighieri
- Coplas a la muerte de su padre by Jorge Manrique
- Corpus Christi Carol, Original Middle English
- Crist by Cynewulf
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- The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
- De fato by Albertus Magnus
- De l'unité de l'intellect by Thomas Aquinas
- De monarchia by Dante Alighieri
- De vulgari eloquentia by Dante Alighieri
- Dialogus inter philosophum, iudaeum et christianum by Peter Abelard
- The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri
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- Edda
- Egils Saga - Icelandic original
- Erec and Enide by Chrétien de Troyes
- L'être et l'essence by Thomas Aquinas
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- Five Middle English poems - anonymous poems of the 13th-14th centuries
- Fredome by John Barbour
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- The High History of the Holy Graal - translated from Old French into English
- Hildebrandslied (ca. 800) Bavarian original and modern German
- A Hymn to the Virgin, anonymous
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- I Sing of a Maiden, Original Middle English
- Íslendingabók (The Book of Icelanders) ca. 1200
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- Kitab al Khazari (Kuzari) - translated from the Judeo-Arabic into English by Hartwig Hirschfeld.
- Kuzari - see Kitab al Khazari.
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- Lancelot by Chrétien de Troyes
- The Laxdaela Saga - English translation of Old Icelandic
- Lines from Love Letters - anonymous 14th century poem, macaronic in Middle English, Middle French, and Latin
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- Mabinogion - Old Welsh original
- Merseburger Zaubersprüche - 9th or 10th century Old High German spell
- Milione by Marco Polo
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- Pangur Bán - An Old Irish poem about a monk and his cat
- Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Perceval, the Story of the Grail by Chrétien de Troyes
- Perlesvaus - anonymous French poem of Percival
- Piers Plowman by William Langland
- Premier traité sur les universaux by Thomas Aquinas
- Pwyll Pendeuic Dyuet - The first story of the Mabinogion, in Middle Welsh
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- Scél Mucci Mic Dathó - The Story of Mac Dathó's Pig, Middle Irish legend
- Sermons by Meister Eckhart
- Shah Nameh by Hakīm Abol-Qāsem Firdawsī Ṭūsī
- St. Edmund, King and Martyr by Aelfric
- St. Patrick's Breastplate - Old Irish
- Somme théologique by Thomas Aquinas
- Summis desiderantes by Pope Innocent VIII
- Sunset on Calvary, Original Middle English
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- Theologia by Peter Abelard
- Theologia scholarium by Peter Abelard
- Three Old Irish poems - Verses in the St. Gall Priscian manuscript
- Tractatus de intellectibus by Peter Abelard
- Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas
- Treatise on Habits by Thomas Aquinas
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- Ursprinc bluomen by Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Utopia by Thomas More, translated into English.
- Thomas More's Utopia, in the original Latin.
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- Versus de scachis - 997
- Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri