Middle Ages

Philosophy & Thought

• Boethius

  The Consolation of Philosophy

  c. 524 · From the Latin

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• Anselm of Canterbury

  Proslogion

  c. 1078 · From the Latin

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• Maimonides

  The Guide for the Perplexed (Selections)

  c. 1190 · From the Arabic

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• Thomas Aquinas

  On Kingship and the Summa Theologiae (Selections)

  c. 1265–1274 · From the Latin

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History

• Marco Polo

  The Travels of Marco Polo

  c. 1298 · From the Old French

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• Ibn Khaldun

  The Muqaddimah (Selections)

  1377 · From the Arabic

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Literature

• The Beowulf Poet

  Beowulf

  8th century AD · From the Old English

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• The Storytellers of the Thousand and One Nights

  The Thousand and One Nights (Selections)

  c. 900–1500 · From the Arabic

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• Turold

  The Song of Roland

  11th century AD · From the Old French

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• Abelard and Heloise

  The Letters of Abelard and Heloise

  c. 1132–1137 · From the Latin

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• Omar Khayyam

  The Rubaiyat

  12th century AD · From the Persian

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• The Nibelungenlied Poet

  The Nibelungenlied

  c. 1200 · From the Middle High German

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• Kamo no Chōmei

  An Account of My Hut

  1212 · From the Japanese

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• Rumi

  The Divan of Shams of Tabriz (Selections)

  1244–1273 · From the Persian

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• Saadi

  The Gulistan (The Rose Garden)

  1258 · From the Persian

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• Dante Alighieri

  La Vita Nuova (The New Life)

  c. 1294 · From the Italian

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• Dante Alighieri

  The Divine Comedy

  c. 1308–1321 · From the Italian

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• Yoshida Kenkō

  Essays in Idleness

  c. 1330–1332 · From the Japanese

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• Petrarch

  The Canzoniere (Selections) and The Ascent of Mont Ventoux

  1336–1374 · From the Italian

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• Giovanni Boccaccio

  The Decameron

  c. 1349–1353 · From the Italian

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• Luo Guanzhong

  Romance of the Three Kingdoms

  14th century AD · From the Chinese

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• Shi Nai'an

  The Water Margin

  14th century AD · From the Chinese

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• Hafez

  Poems of Hafez (Selections from the Divan)

  14th century AD · From the Persian

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• Geoffrey Chaucer

  The Canterbury Tales (Selections)

  c. 1387–1400 · From the Middle English

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Religion & Spirituality

• Huineng

  The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

  8th century AD · From the Classical Chinese

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• Rumi

  Discourses (Fihi Ma Fihi)

  13th century AD · From the Persian

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• Rumi

  The Masnavi

  1258–1273 · From the Persian

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• Thomas à Kempis

  The Imitation of Christ

  c. 1418–1427 · From the Latin

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