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Froissart’s Chronicles, the lay of roland or any other chanson de geste, piers plowman, the canterbury tales, de rea metallica, on divers arts, gawain and the g
by hprotagonist 4y ago
Froissart’s Chronicles, the lay of roland or any other chanson de geste, piers plowman, the canterbury tales, de rea metallica, on divers arts, gawain and the green knight, …
possibly too early, late, or religious: beowulf, the anglo-saxon chronicle, the chronicles of matthew paris, shakespeare…
- tpmx 4y agoBrilliant. This is going to take some time to go through, but after 20 minutes of Googling and reading bits and pieces it looks like pretty much exactly what I was thinking about.
- hprotagonist 4y agooh, and of course https://www.pepysdiary.com/ https://www.pepysdiary.com/ which is also post-medieval, but great.
- B1FF_PSUVM 4y agoBefore Canterbury: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Decameron There's a book somewhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cid Further north: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edda
- kjellsbells 4y agodecameron is always a fun read. the divine comedy too, but is religiously inspired, if not strictly religious.