medieval texts
Illuminated monastery documents
Medieval texts are writings produced during the Middle Ages, roughly the 5th through 15th centuries.
The term encompasses manuscripts, chronicles, religious works, legal documents, and literary compositions from this period.
Scholars study medieval texts for insights into history, language, and culture: The library's collection of medieval texts includes illuminated manuscripts and monastic records.
The phrase often implies handwritten documents predating the printing press.
- Torah scrollsHandwritten Pentateuch manuscripts
- biblical textsSacred Judeo-Christian writings
- parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
- hagiographyIdealized biographical writing
- chronicleOrdered historical record
Crusades · chivalry · monastic orders · palimpsest · Old English · vernacular · Canterbury Tales · Norman Conquest · codex · feudalism · Gothic script · folklore · incunabula · morality plays · knight errant · illuminated manuscript · gilded · psalter
- Judeo-Frenchglosses
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- DutchDutch, Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Rotterdam
- English LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen, Bronte, Chaucer
- Literary traditionsmythology, folklore, fairy tales, fables, legends
- ancient textsscrolls, scroll, Euclid's Elements, Epic of Gilgamesh, codex
medieval textscontemporary literature
Recent era's published works
ancient texts · classical texts · Victorian literature · digital publications · postmodern literature
medieval textsprinted books
Published physical reading material
e-books · web content · audiobooks · digital publications · electronic documents