Early Medieval literature

Early Medieval literature

"See also:" Ancient literature, 10th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Literature of the 6th to 9th centuries (Early Middle Ages).

The bulk of literature in Classical Sanskrit dates to the Early Medieval period, but in most cases cannot be dated to a specific century.

Texts

*6th century:
**"Aryabhatiya"
**"Brihat-Samhita"
**"Chronicle of Fredegar"
**"Commentary on Job" by Pope Gregory I
**"Etymologiae" by Isidore of Seville
**"Historia Francorum" by Gregory of Tours
**"The Origin and Deeds of the Goths" by Jordanes
**"Secret History" by Procopius
** "writer listed, rather than text:"
***Agathias (writer)
***Dandi (poet) (writer)
***Evagrius Scholasticus
***Virahanka (writer)

*7th century:
**"Chronicon Paschale"
**"Qur'an"
**"Origo Gentis Langobardorum"
**"writer listed, rather than text:"
***Bhartrihari (writer)
***Bhāskara I (writer)
***Brahmagupta (writer)
***Yan Shigu (writer)

*8th century:
**"Dream of the Rood"
**"Hildebrandslied"
**"Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum" by Bede
**"Historia gentis Langobardorum" by Paulus Diaconus
** "writer listed, rather than text:"
***Ibn Ishaq (writer)
***John of Damascus (writer)
***Khalil ibn Ahmad (writer)
***Lalla (writer)
***Wahb ibn Munabbih (writer)

*9th century:
**"Al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala"
** "De bellis Parisiacae urbis" (The Wars of the City of Paris), in Latin, by Abbo Cernuus (890s)
**"The Book of One Thousand and One Nights" compiled by Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar
**"Heliand"
**"Liber Pontificalis"
**"Muspilli"
**"Ragnarsdrápa" by Bragi Boddason
**"Ynglingatal", "Haustlöng" by Þjóðólfr of Hvinir
**"Waldere"
** "writer listed, rather than text:"
***Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (writer)
***Al-Waqidi (writer)
***Ya'qubi (writer)
***Govindsvamin (writer)

ee also

*Byzantine literature
*Medieval Bulgarian literature
*Centuries in poetry: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th
*Puranas

References

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