Books written in the Early Middle Ages
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Books written before the European Moveable Metal Type Printing Press was invented in Mainz, Germany, in 1450
Books written in the Middle Ages and Renaissance after the printing press
Kautilya - the Machiavelli of early first millennium India
354 - 430
St Colomba c523 - 597 (74)
The Venerable Bede 673 - 735, written in 731. Bede was based at Jarrow monastery and is buried in Durham Cathedral.
Bede, a Doctor of the Church, was also one of the earlier vocal Christian supporters of the spherical earth theory, though it had been around at least since Pythagoras 1250 years earlier
742 - 814
The defeat of Charlemagne's nephew Roland at Roncesvalles in 778 leads to an epic (and completely inaccurate) poem 200 years later
The glittering court of Sultan Harun al-Rashid 763 - 809
King Alfred the Great
871 - 899
Anselm of Canterbury 1033 - 1109
El Cid c1040 – 1099 (59)
The Ruba'iyat of
Omar Khayyam
1048 - 1123
Peter Abelard 1079 - 1142
Heloise 1101 - 1164
St Stephen Harding
1060 - 1133
1090 - 1153
St Aelred c1110 - 1167, third Abbot of Rievaulx
(Yorkshire, Cistercian Abbey)
Moses Maimonides
1135 - 1204
Cordoba born Jewish rabbi, physician and philosopher
Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
1207 - 1273
Saint Thomas Aquinas 1226 - 1274
Marco Polo, Friar Odoric, Jacob d'Ancona, Ibn Battuta, Sir John Mandeville
Dante Alighieri 1265 - 1321
1304 - 1374
1313 - 1375
1340 - 1400
1450 - The first European printed book produced in Mainz (Germany) - 1450
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