13th century in literature

See also: 13th century in poetry, 12th century in literature, other events of the 13th century, 14th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

 * 1211 - Hélinand of Froidmont begins compiling his Chronicon.
 * 1240 - Albert of Stade joins the Franciscan order and begins his chronicle.
 * 1249 - September 27: Chronicler Guillaume de Puylaurens is present at the death of Raymond VII of Toulouse.

New books

 * 13th c. Huon of Bordeaux
 * ca. 1200 Nibelungenlied
 * 1205 Lancelot-Grail
 * early 13th c.
 * Ancrene Wisse
 * Farid al-Din Attar - Mantiqu 't-Tayr (The Conference of the Birds)
 * Codex Gigas
 * Guido delle Colonne - Historia destructionis Troiae
 * Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival
 * ca. 1215 - Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube: Girard de Vienne
 * Rumi - diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi, masnavi in Persian
 * 1220 Ibn Hammad, Akhbar muluk bani Ubayd
 * ca. 1220s - Snorri Sturlusson: Prose Edda
 * ca. 1230
 * La Mort le roi Artu, French prose romance
 * Guillaume de Lorris: First section of Romance of the Rose
 * ca. 1230s - Post-Vulgate Cycle
 * ca. 1240 - Rudolf von Ems: Alexanderroman
 * mid 13th c. - Doön de Mayence
 * 1259 - Bonaventure: Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum (Journey of the Mind to God)
 * ca. 1260 - Thomas Aquinas: Summa contra Gentiles
 * Sa'di - Gulistan, Bustan poets and texts in Persian
 * 1263 - Bonaventure: Life of St. Francis of Assisi
 * ca. 1270 - Ibn al-Nafis: Theologus Autodidactus
 * ca. 1275 - Second section of Romance of the Rose - Jean de Meun
 * ca. 1280 - Heinrich der Vogler: Dietrichs Flucht
 * ca. 1280s - The Owl and the Nightingale
 * 1283 - Ramon Llull: Blanquerna
 * 1293 - Dante Alighieri: La Vita Nuova
 * ca. 1295 - Mathieu of Boulogne: Liber lamentationum Matheoluli (The Lamentations of Matheolus)
 * 1299 - Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo
 * ca. 1300 - Gesta Romanorum

Births

 * 1266 (probable) - Duns Scotus, philosopher and theologian (died 1308)

Deaths

 * 1212 : Adam of Dryburgh, Anglo-Scots theologian (born c. 1140)
 * 1228 (probable): Gervase of Tilbury, lawyer, statesman and writer (born c. 1150)
 * 1251 (probable): Albertanus of Brescia, Latin prose writer (born c. 1195)
 * 1252 (probable): Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Cistercian chronicler
 * 1253 : Robert Grosseteste
 * 1268 : Henry of Bracton
 * 1274
 * March 7 : Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian
 * July 12 : Bonaventure, philosopher and theologian
 * 1285 : Rutebeuf
 * 1294 : Roger Bacon