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12th Century In Poetry

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EUROPE

Events

Emergence of the Troubadour , Trouvère and Minnesänger traditions, in the Occitan , Langues D'oïl and Middle High German vernaculars respectively

Major works

1180 to 1210 - Nibelunglied

The Tale Of Igor's Campaign in Old East Slavic , dated near the end of the century

Ormulum in Middle English

Chanson D'Antioche and other crusader tales at the beginning of the century.

Poets

Chrétien De Troyes flourishes in the 1170s and 1180s.

Marie De France flourishes from approximately 1170 through 1205/1210.

Jean Bodel

Undated Troubadors

Bernart De Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s)

Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s)

Marcabru (fl. 1140s and 1150s)

Arnaut De Mareuil (fl. late 12th c.)

Goliard poets, writing in Latin, flourish in European universities

Nigel De Longchamps , writing in Latin in England

John Of Hauville , writing in Latin, probably in France

Walter Of Châtillon , writing in Latin in France

Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr , fl. in the last half of the century in Wales

Joseph Ben Isaac Bekhor Shor , writing in Hebrew in France in the last half of the century

MIDDLE EAST

Events

Emergence of Turkic poetry

Poets

Michael Glycas , Byzantine

PERSIA

Poets

Nizami Aruzi

Mahsati , a woman poet from Azerbaijan

Rashid Al-Din Muhammad Al-Umari Vatvat

SOUTH ASIA

Poets

Akka Mahadevi , in Kannada

Allama Prabhu , in Kannada

Nagavarma II , in Kannada

Rudrabhatta , in Kannada

Chand Bardai in Hindi

Fariduddin Ganjshakar in Punjabi

SOUTHEAST ASIA

Kakawin Hariwangsa authored mid-century in Java

DECADES AND YEARS