- 12th century in poetry
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Events
* Emergence of the
troubadour ,trouvère andminnesänger traditions, in theOccitan ,Langues d'oïl andMiddle High German vernaculars respectivelyMajor works
* 1180 to 1210 -
Nibelunglied
*The Tale of Igor's Campaign inOld East Slavic , dated near the end of the century
*Ormulum inMiddle English
*Chanson d'Antioche and other crusader tales at the beginning of the century.Poets
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Chrétien de Troyes flourishes in the 1170s and 1180s.
*Marie de France flourishes from approximately 1170 through 1205/1210.
*Jean Bodel
* Undatedtroubadors :*Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1130s - c. 1190s):*Cercamon (fl. 1130s and 1140s):*Marcabru (fl. 1140s and 1150s):*Arnaut de Mareuil (fl. late 12th c.)
*Goliard poets, writing in Latin, flourish in European universities
*Nigel de Longchamps , writing in Latin in England
*John of Hauville , writing in Latin, probably in France
*Walter of Châtillon , writing in Latin in France
*Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr , fl. in the last half of the century in Wales
*Joseph ben Isaac Bekhor Shor , writing in Hebrew in France in the last half of the centuryMiddle East
Events
* Emergence of Turkic poetry
Poets
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Michael Glycas , ByzantinePersia
Poets
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Nizami Aruzi
*Mahsati , a woman poet fromAzerbaijan
*Rashid al-Din Muhammad al-Umari Vatvat outh Asia
Poets
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Akka Mahadevi , in Kannada
*Allama Prabhu , in Kannada
*Nagavarma II , in Kannada
*Rudrabhatta , in Kannada
*Chand Bardai in Hindi
*Fariduddin Ganjshakar in Punjabioutheast Asia
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Kakawin Hariwangsa authored mid-century inJava Decades and years
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