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Scribe of Eadwine Psalter (mid-12th century, English) The 12th century in Western Europe saw an increase in the production of Latin texts and a proliferation of literate clerics from the multiplying cathedral schools. At the same time, vernacular literatures ranging from Provençal to Icelandic embodied in lyric and romance the values and worldview of an increasingly self-conscious and prosperous courtly aristocracy. These two trends contributed to a sweeping revival of letters with a lasting influence on the development of literature in the following centuries.
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1104: September 3 – St. Cuthbert is reburied in Durham Cathedral (England) and the St. Cuthbert Gospel of St. John removed from his tomb. 1170: Poet, politician and historian Lu You (陸游) travels on the Grand Canal (China) from Shaoxing to the river Yangtze , recording his progress in a diary. Before 1173: Copenhagen Psalter produced in northern England 1170: 29 December – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket is assassinated in Canterbury Cathedral , an event that inspires several plays, notably: Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's Becket (1884 ), T. S. Eliot 's Murder in the Cathedral (1935 ), Jean Anouilh 's Becket (Becket, ou l'honneur de Dieu , 1959 ) and Paul Webb's Four Nights in Knaresborough (1999 ). It also features in novels such as Conrad Ferdinand Meyer 's Der Heilige ("The Saint", 1879 ), Ken Follett 's The Pillars of the Earth (1989) and Sharon Kay Penman 's Time and Chance (2002). c. 1193 : The university and its libraries at Nalanda in India are sacked and burned by Turkic invader Ikhtiyar Uddin Muhammad bin Bakhtiyar Khilji ; the burning of the library is said to have continued for several months. Histories
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Fable/Allegory Drama Lyric Linguistics Topography Treatises Encyclopedias Authors Born 1100/1110: Geoffrey of Monmouth , Welsh chronicler (died 1155) Died 1101: August 24 Su Shi (蘇軾), Chinese poet (born 1037 ) Died 1105: July 13 Rashi , French rabbinical scholar (born 1040 ) Killed 1106: Máel Muire mac Céilechair , Irish monk and scribe Born 1109: April 21 – Anselm of Canterbury , Aostan -born archbishop and philosopher (born c. 1033 ) Born 1110: Aelred of Rievaulx , writer and abbot (died 1167) Born c. 1110: Wace , Jèrriais poet (died after 1174) Born c. 1110: Lawrence of Durham , English poet, hagiographer and bishop (died 1154) Died 1118: Florence (Florentius) of Worcester , English chronicler and monk Born 1121/2: Khaqani , Persian poet (died 1190) Born 1125: October 17 – Lu You (陸游), Chinese poet (died 1209 ) Died c. 1126 : Eadmer , English ecclesiastic and historian (born c. 1060 ) Born c. 1130 : Akka Mahadevi , female Indian Kannada language Vachana sahitya didactic poet (died 1160) Died 1131: December 4 Omar Khayyám , Persian philosopher, scientist and presumed poet (born 1048 ) Born c. 1141 : Nizami Ganjavi , Seljuk Empire Persian romantic epic poet (died 1209 ) Born c. 1146 : Gerald of Wales (Giraldus Cambrensis), Cambro-Norman churchman and topographer (died c. 1223 ) Died c. 1157 : Henry of Huntingdon , English historian writing in Latin Died 1160: Ibn Quzman , al-Andalusian poet (born 1078 ) Born 1162: Fujiwara no Teika (Fujiwara no Sadaie, 藤原定家) Japanese waka poet, calligrapher and scholar (died 1241 ) Died 1167: January 12 – Aelred of Rievaulx , writer and abbot (born 1100) Fl. 1180s: Joseph of Exeter , English poet writing in Latin Fl. 1180s: H[enry] of Saltrey, English Cistercian monk writing in Latin Born c. 1197 : Gonzalo de Berceo , Castilian poet (died by 1264 ) Fl. late 12th century: Chrétien de Troyes , Old French poet 12th or 13th century: Berechiah ha-Nakdan , Jewish exegete, poet and philosopher 12th century: Jocelyn de Brakelond , English chronicler and monk See also References
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