Ancient

to 
A.D. 100

A.D. 100 to 
A.D. 200

A.D. 200 to 
A.D. 300

A.D. 300 to 
A.D. 400

A.D. 400 to 
A.D. 500

A.D. 500 to 
A.D. 600

A.D. 600 to 
A.D. 700

A.D. 700 to 
A.D. 800

A.D. 800 to 
A.D. 900

England, Ireland, etc.

Soldiers of Christ

De Excidio Britanniae

Soldiers of Christ

Anglo-Saxon Poems

Anglo-Saxon Prose

Soldiers of Christ

Anglo-Saxon Poems

Anglo-Saxon Prose

Beowulf

Early Irish Myths & Sagas

Old English Poetry

The Venerable Bede

Soldiers of Christ

Anglo-Saxon Poems

Anglo-Saxon Prose

Early Irish Myths & Sagas

Life of King Alfred (893)

Soldiers of Christ

France

Italy (including Roman)

Aesop's Fables

Avianus

Herodotus

The Homeric Epics

Comedies of Plautus

The Aeneid

The Golden Ass

Ovid's Metamorphoses

A Clutch of Vampires

Lives of the Caesars

A Clutch of Vampires

Germany, Austria, and Eastern Europe

Soldiers of Christ

Soldiers of Christ

Soldiers of Christ

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Soldiers of Christ

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Soldiers of Christ

Russia

Scandanavia

China and Japan

Japanese Tales Japanese Tales

Spain

The Middle East, Persia, and India

Mahabharata Mahabharata The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

Religious Sources

The Aggadah The Koran The Koran The Koran

 
 

900-1000

1000-1100

1100-1200

1200-1300

1300-1400

1400-1500

1500-1600

Undated

England, Ireland, etc.

Anglo-Saxon Poems

Anglo-Saxon Prose

Early Irish Myths & Sagas

The Exeter Book Riddles

Gesta Guillelmi (1072)

The Portable Medieval Reader

Acts of King Arthur

Ars Versificatoria

A Clutch of Vampires

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Gesta Herewardi

The Legend of Tristram

Mac Datho's Pig

The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Portable Medieval Reader

Acts of King Arthur

Adam Bell

The Chronicle of Jean Froissart

Chronicles of Matthew Paris

Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn

The Fabliau in English

Mabinogion

Medieval English Verse and Prose

The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Portable Medieval Reader

Valentine and Orson

Acts of King Arthur

Adam Bell

Arthur & Gorlagon

The Canterbury Tales

Early English Romances in Verse

Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn

Five Middle English Arthurian Romances

Gawaine & The Green Knight

Gesta Romanorum

The Legend of Tristram

Medieval English Verse and Prose

The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Portable Medieval Reader

Robin Hood

The Shorter Poems of Chaucer

Valentine and Orson

Acts of King Arthur

Adam Bell published in English 1484

Aesop's Fables

The Canterbury Tales

Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn

Five Middle English Arthurian Romances

Gesta Romanorum

A Legend of Holy Women

Le Morte Darthur first printed in 1485

The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Portable Medieval Reader

Robin Hood

Valentine and Orson

Acts of King Arthur

Adam Bell

Amadis de Gaula

The Canterbury Tales

The Decameron published in English 1527

Eustace the Monk and Fouke Fitz Waryn

Gesta Romanorum

The Oxford Book of English Verse

Kalila wa Dimna

Orlando Furioso

A pleasant disport of divers Noble Personages published in English 1567

The Renaissance in England

Robin Hood

Valentine and Orson

Bibliographies of Medieval Writings in English Translation

Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

Folktales From Around the World

Medieval Comic Tales

Medieval Song

Scudder's Book of Legends

The World of Storytelling

World Tales

France

 

The Song of Roland

Songs of the Troubadours

The Alexandreis

Dolopathos

Erec & Enide

Floire and Blanchefleur

The Lais of Marie de France

Perceval

Reynard the Fox

Songs of the Troubadours

Ami & Amile

Aucassin and Nicolette

The Fabliau in English

The Lais of Marie de France

Le Pèlerinage de Charlemagne

Robin Hood

Songs of the Troubadours

The Travels of Marco Polo (1298)

The Chronicle of Jean Froissart

Gesta Romanorum

Robin Hood

The Seven Sages of Rome

Valentine and Orson

Gesta Romanorum

The One Hundred New Tales

Poems of Francois Villon

Ambrose Paré's Journal

Gargantua and Pantagruel

Gesta Romanorum

Heptameron (1558)

Montaigne, Essays and Travel Journal

Poems of Joachim Du Bellay

The Poems of Pierre de Ronsard

French Folktales

Harlequin

Medieval Comic Tales

Medieval Song

Italy

The Golden Legend

The Travels of Marco Polo

The Decameron

A pleasant disport of divers Noble Personages (1336)

The Novellino of Masuccio

Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini

The Book of the Courtier

Orlando Furioso

The Pentameron

Scenarios of the Commedia dell Arté

The Facetious Nights of Straparola

Medieval Comic Tales

Medieval Song

Germany, Austria, Hungary and Eastern Europe

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

The Alexiad

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Gesta Hungarorum

Gregorius

Nibelungenlied

Parzival

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Gesta Hungarorum

The Legend of Tristram

Parzival

The Rat-catcher of Hamelin

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Gesta Romanorum

The Rat-catcher of Hamelin

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Gesta Romanorum

The Rat-catcher of Hamelin

The Anthology of Medieval German Literature

Gesta Romanorum

The Rat-catcher of Hamelin

Medieval Comic Tales

Medieval Song

Russia

Medieval Russia: a sourcebook Medieval Russia: a sourcebook

Medieval Russia's Epics

Kitezh

The Lay of Prince Igor

Medieval Russia: a sourcebook

Medieval Russia's Epics

The Russian Primary Chronicle

The Lord of the Panther-Skin

Medieval Russia: a sourcebook

Medieval Russia's Epics

The Russian Primary Chronicle

Eymund's Saga

Medieval Russia: a sourcebook

Medieval Russia's Epics

The Russian Primary Chronicle

The Bugarstica (late 1400s)

Medieval Russia: a sourcebook

Medieval Russia's Epics

The Russian Primary Chronicle

Medieval Russia: a sourcebook

Medieval Russia's Epics

The Russian Primary Chronicle

Folktales of the Amur

Folk Tales of the Soviet Union

Heroes, Monsters, and Other Worlds

Medieval Slavic ManuscriptsRussian Fairy Tales

Tales from Tartary

Scandanavia

Laxdaela Saga

The North American Book of Icelandic Verse

King Harald's Saga The Elder Edda

The Vinland Sagas

Egil's Saga

Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus

Njal's Saga

The Saga of Gunnlaugur Snake's Tongue

The Vinland Sagas

Yngvar's Saga

Eymund's Saga

The Vinland Sagas

Forty Old Icelandic Tales

The Kalevala

Scandinavian Folk & Fairy Tales

China and Japan

Japanese Tales

Tale of Genji

Japanese Tales Japanese Tales Japanese Tales

The Travels of Marco Polo (1298)

Japanese Tales Japanese Tales

Hsi Yu Chi

Japanese Tales

Chinese Mythology

A Clutch of Vampires

Spain

Poems of Arab Andalusia Poems of Arab Andalusia El Cid

Disciplina Clericalis

Poems of Arab Andalusia

The Pennants

Poems of Arab Andalusia

Amadis de Gaula Amadis de Gaula

Tirant lo Blanc

Amadis de Gaula

El Cid

The History of the Mohammedan Dynasties in Spain

Medieval Comic Tales

The Middle-East, Persia and India

The Arabian Nights

The Book of Dede Korkut

Mahabharata

The Shah-Nama

The Table Talk of a Mesopotamian Judge

The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

The Shah-Nama

The Arabian Nights

The Conference of Birds

Haft Paykar (1197)

The Hand of Poetry

The Ilahi-nama

Layla wa Majnun

Mahabharata

Mirror of the Invisible World

Muslim saints and mystics

Rubbaiyyat

The Arabian Nights

Bostan of Saadi

Gulistan of Saadi

Mahabharata

The Hand of Poetry

The Arabian Nights

The Hand of Poetry

Kalila wa Dimna

Mahabharata

Odes of Hafiz

The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

The Perfumed Garden

Yusuf and Zuleikha

The Arabian Nights

Mahabharata

Arab Folktales

The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin

Religious Sources

The Koran The Koran The Koran The Koran The Koran The Koran Deuteronomistic History

The Koran

The Diamond Tree (Jewish)

Goddess

Lilith's Cave (Jewish)

Lives of the Saints


 
 

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