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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of '''14th century'''.
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==Events==
{{Medieval and Renaissance literature}}
[[File:Francesco Petrarca00.jpg|200px|thumb|[[Petrarch]] (1304-1374)]]
*1323 – The name ''[[La Pléiade|Pléiade]]'' is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in [[Toulouse]].
*1324: 3 May ([[Feast of the Cross#May 3|Holy Cross Day]]) – The [[Consistori del Gay Saber]], founded the previous year in [[Toulouse]] to revive and perpetuate the [[lyric poetry]] of the [[Old Occitan]] [[troubador]]s, holds its first contest. [[Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari]] wins the ''violeta d'or'' (golden violet) for a ''[[sirventes]]'' in praise of the [[Virgin Mary]]. At about this date, [[Raimon de Cornet]] writes ''Doctrinal de trobar'' in support of the aims of the Gay Saber.
*1327
**Between 20 January and 21 September – The deposed King [[Edward II of England]] perhaps writes the "[[Lament of Edward II]]".
**[[6 April]] ([[Good Friday]]) – [[Tuscany|Tuscan]] writer [[Petrarch]] sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'[[Avignon]], which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of [[sonnet]]s and other poems in [[Italian language|Italian]] dedicated to her up to about 1368, which are collected into ''[[Il Canzoniere]]'', an influential model for [[Renaissance]] culture.
**[[27 August]] – Death of [[Thomas Cobham]], [[Bishop of Worcester]] in England. His books are bequeathed to the [[University of Oxford]] where they are installed in the [[University Church of St Mary the Virgin]], forming the university's first library.
*1329: February – French poet and composer [[Guillaume de Machaut]] is brought to the [[Siege of Medvėgalis]] by [[John of Bohemia]] so the king's crusading deeds can be commemorated in song and poetry.
*c. 1330 – Production of the [[Macclesfield Psalter]] in [[East Anglia]].
*1331 – Production of the [[Nuremberg Mahzor]].
*1341: [[8 April]] – [[Petrarch]] becomes [[poet laureate]] at a ceremony in Rome.<ref>{{cite book|author=John Flood|title=Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire: A Bio-bibliographical Handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B1ujbUq3NOcC&pg=PA1531|date=8 September 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-091274-6|pages=1531}}</ref>
*1357 – The ''Polychronicon'' concludes, [[Ranulf Higden]] having ceased work on it at least a dozen years earlier.
*1360 – The future English writer [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] is captured by the French during the [[Reims campaign]] of the [[Hundred Years' War]] and ransomed by King [[Edward III of England]].<ref name=Chaucer>{{cite web |title=Geoffrey Chaucer {{!}} Biography, Poems, Canterbury Tales, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Geoffrey-Chaucer |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=12 January 2021 |language=en}}</ref>
*1362: September – [[Petrarch's library]] is donated to the [[Republic of Venice]], although subsequently dispersed.
*1368
**The new [[Hongwu Emperor]] in [[China]] halts government taxation on books.
**The [[Bibliothèque nationale de France]] (National Library of France) is founded as the Royal Library at the [[Louvre Palace]] in Paris by [[Charles V of France]].
[[File:Yoshida Kenko.jpg|thumb|[[Yoshida Kenkō]]]]
*1370–1398 – Approximate date of production of the earliest part of the [[Sankt Florian Psalter]], one of the earliest surviving texts to use the [[Polish language]].
*1372 – [[Old Permic alphabet]] introduced by [[Stephen of Perm]].
*1374
**[[23 April]]: English writer [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] is granted a gallon of wine a day for the rest of his life by order of King [[Edward III of England]] in recognition of his services.
**[[Ludolph of Saxony]] completes his ''[[Vita Christi]]'', which appears first in book form in 1474 and becomes an influence on St [[Ignatius Loyola]] in the early 16th century.
*1377 – Production of the earliest known copy of the [[Laurentian Codex]].
*1381: [[30 May]]–November – [[Peasants' Revolt]] in England. Preacher [[John Ball (priest)|John Ball]] apparently cites the poem ''[[Piers Plowman]]'' (which is revised during this decade) and [[John Gower]] includes an account of the events in his ''[[Vox Clamantis]]''. On 15 June, the [[University of Cambridge]]'s library and archives are burnt in the centre of the town, with one Margery Starre leading the mob in a dance to the rallying cry "[[Away with the learning of clerks, away with it!]]".<ref>{{cite book|last=Dunn|first=Alastair|year=2002|title=The Great Rising of 1381: the Peasants' Revolt and England's Failed Revolution|publisher=Tempus|location=Stroud|isbn=978-0-7524-2323-4|pages=128–129}}</ref> The events inspire the late 16th century play ''[[The Life and Death of Jack Straw]]'',<ref>{{cite book | author = anonymous | year = 1593 | title = The Life and Death of Iacke Straw, A notable Rebell in England Who was kild in Smithfield by the Lord Maior of London | location = London | others = STC (2nd ed.), 23356 | ref = 23356}}</ref> [[Robert Southey]]'s dramatic poem ''Wat Tyler'' ([[1794 in literature|1794]]),<ref>{{cite book|author1=Horace Walpole|author2=Robert Southey|author3=Joanna Baillie|title=Five Romantic Plays, 1768-1821|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZVffYKxmZMIC&pg=PR14|year=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-283316-7|pages=14}}</ref> and novels such as [[Pierce Egan the Younger]]'s ''Wat Tyler'' ([[1841 in literature|1841]]),<ref>{{cite book|author=Chris R. Vanden Bossche|title=Reform Acts: Chartism, Social Agency, and the Victorian Novel, 1832–1867|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9e-VAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA35|date=1 February 2014|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=978-1-4214-1209-2|pages=35}}</ref> [[William Harrison Ainsworth]]'s ''Merry England'' ([[1874 in literature|1874]])<ref>{{cite book|author=William Harrison Ainsworth|title=Merry England: Or, Nobles and Serfs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cP4BAAAAQAAJ|year=1874|publisher=B. Tauchnitz}}</ref> and [[William Morris]]'s ''[[A Dream of John Ball]]'' ([[1886 in literature|1886]]).<ref>{{cite book|author=William Morris|title=A Dream of John Ball: And A King's Lesson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_hkh5_aft6EC&pg=PA31|year=1888|publisher=Reeves & Turner|pages=31}}</ref>
*1382 – Earliest recorded appearance of [[Wycliffe's Bible]].
*1384 – [[Henry of Langenstein]] writes his letter, ''De scismate'', to [[Echard von Dersch]], Bishop of Worms.<ref>Sommerfeldt, ''Historisches Jahrbuch'' (Munich, 1909), XXX, 46–61</ref>
*1386: October – [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] is obliged to give up most of his official offices in London and retires to [[Kent]] where he may work on ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the year that made the Canterbury Tales|first=Paul|last=Strohm|location=London|publisher=Profile Books|year=2014|isbn=978-178125-059-4}}</ref>
*1388 – Revision of [[Wycliffe's Bible]] is completed by [[John Purvey]], and Wyclif's followers, known as [[Lollards]], begin to be persecuted in England.
*1390–1 – Production of the [[Book of Ballymote]] in [[Ireland]].
*1390s – Production of the [[Yellow Book of Lecan]] in Ireland.
*1397 – Production of the [[Kiev Psalter of 1397|Kiev Psalter]] in [[Kiev Rus]].
*1398 – The early 13th century carved wooden text of the ''[[Tripitaka Koreana]]'' is moved to the [[Haeinsa]] [[Buddhist]] temple in modern-day [[South Korea]], where it will remain into the 21st century.
*''unknown dates''
**The prose original of the ''[[Amadis de Gaula]]'' is produced (or perhaps translated into [[Old Spanish language|Old Spanish]] from an earlier 14th-century version), perhaps by the knight [[Vasco de Lobeira]] or the troubador [[João de Lobeira]].
**[[Madhava Kandali]] produces the ''[[Saptakanda Ramayana]]'' (a retelling of the ''[[Ramayana]]''), one of the earliest written examples of the [[Assamese language]] and the first translation from [[Sanskrit]] into one of the modern regional [[Indo-Aryan languages]].
**The ''[[Bardo Thodol]]'' is revealed to the [[tertön]] [[Karma Lingpa]].

==New works==
*c. 1300
**Anonymous – ''[[Gesta Romanorum]]''
**[[Taliesin]] – ''[[Book of Taliesin]]'', [[Middle Welsh]]. Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599) is a Brythonic [[bard]] of [[Sub-Roman Britain]] believed to have sung at the courts of at least three [[Britons (historical)|Celtic British]] kings.
**[[Marguerite Porete]] – ''[[The Mirror of Simple Souls]]''
**[[Rustichello da Pisa]] – ''[[The Travels of Marco Polo]]''
*c. 1300–10
**[[Gona Budda Reddy]] – ''[[Ranganatha ramayan]]'' (శ్రీ రంగనాథ రామాయణం) ([[Telugu language]])
*Early to mid-14th century
**Shihāb al-Dīn Ahmad bin 'Abd al-Wahhāb [[al-Nuwayri]] – ''The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition'' (encyclopedia of Muslim knowledge)
**Anonymous [[Middle English]] writer from southern England (possible author of all following)
***''[[King Alisaunder]]''
***''[[Of Arthour and of Merlin]]''
***''[[Richard Coer de Lyon]]''
***''[[The Seven Sages of Rome]]''
**[[Pseudo-Bonaventure]] – ''[[Meditations on the Life of Christ]]''
**''[[Der Busant]]''
**''[[Long Life of Saint Gerard]]'' (''Legenda maior S. Gerardi'', compiled)
*1307
**[[John of Gaddesden]] – ''Rosa Medicinæ''
**[[Rashid al-Din Hamadani]] – ''[[Jami' al-Tawarikh]]'' ("Compendium of Chronicles", often referred to as The Universal History or History of the World, published in [[Tabriz]], [[Persia]])
**[[Svit se konča]] ("World is Ending"), poem in Croatian, [[Glagolithic]] manuscript

*c. 1308–21
**[[Dante Alighieri]] – ''[[Divine Comedy]]'' (''Comedia'')
*c. 1309–24
**''[[Speculum Humanae Salvationis]]''
**The ''[[Book of Dede Korkut]]''
*1310
**[[Amir Khusrow]] – ''Khazain-ul-Futuh''
*1310–1320
**[[Queen Mary Psalter]]
*1312
**[[Jacques de Longuyon]] – ''[[Les Voeux du paon]]'' (The Vows of the Peacock)
*1315–16
**[[Amir Khusrow]] – ''Duval Rani–Khizr Khan'' (Romance of Duval Rani and Khizr Khan; [[Masnavi (poetic form)|masnavi]])
*c. 1315–25
**[[Rochefoucauld Grail]]
*1316–18
**[[Amir Khusrow]] – ''Noh-Sepehr'' (Nine Skies; 3masnavi)
*1318
**[[Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari]] – ''Guilhem de la Barra''
*c. 1320–35
**''[[Erikskrönikan]]''
*c. 1320–30
**[[Jacob of Liège]] – ''Speculum musicae''
*1320
**[[Dante Alighieri]] – ''Quaestio de Aqua et Terra''
**[[Amir Khusrow]] – ''Tughluq Nama'' (Book of the Tughluqs; prose)
*1320–23
**[[William of Pagula]] – ''[[Oculus Sacerdotis]]'' (Priest's Eye, a manual for priests)
*c. 1321
**''Liber Legum Regum Antiquorum'' (attributed to [[Andrew Horn]])
*c. 1321–23
**''[[Sanguozhi Pinghua]]'' (三國志平話, Sānguózhì Pínghuà) ''Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language'')
*1326
**[[Ibn Abi Zar]] – ''[[Rawd al-Qirtas]]''
*1328
**[[Ramon Muntaner]] - ''[[Chronicle of Muntaner|Chronicle]] (Crònica)'', the longest of [[The Four Great Catalan Chronicles]]
*c. 1329–32
**[[Yoshida Kenkō]] (吉田 兼好) – ''[[Tsurezuregusa]]'' (Essays in Idleness)
*1330
**Robert of Basevorn – ''[[The Form of Preaching]]'' (date of first known MS)
**'Michael' – [[Kildare Poems]] (MS of about this date)
*c. 1330–40
**''[[Perceforest]]''
*1330–43
**[[Juan Ruiz]], Archpriest of Hita – ''[[The Book of Good Love]]'' (''El Libro de Buen Amor'')
*c. 1330–1400
**[[Luo Guanzhong]] (attributed) – ''[[Romance of the Three Kingdoms]]'' (三國演義)
*1335
**[[Matthew Blastares]] (compiler) – ''[[Syntagma Canonum]]''
**Lê Tắc – ''[[An Nam chí lược]]'' (安南志略)
**[[Don Juan Manuel]] – ''[[Tales of Count Lucanor]]''
*1335–40
**[[Giovanni Boccaccio]] – ''[[Il Filostrato]]''
*1338–14 (first published 1396–1397)
**[[Petrarch]] – ''[[Africa (Petrarch)|Africa]]''
*1340
**Michael of Northgate (translator) – ''[[Ayenbite of Inwyt]]''
*c. 1340
** Anonymous - ''[[The Ointment Seller]]''
*c. 1340–41
**[[Giovanni Boccaccio]] – ''[[Teseida]]''
*c. 1340–1349
**Dafydd ap Gwilym – ''[[The Girls of Llanbadarn]]'', ''[[The Dream (Dafydd ap Gwilym poem)|The Dream]]'' and ''[[The Seagull (poem)|The Seagull]]''
*1345
**[[Richard de Bury]] – ''[[The Philobiblon]]''
*1346
**[[Toqto'a (Yuan dynasty)]] (editor) – ''[[History of Song (Yuan dynasty)|History of Song]]'' (宋史, ''Sòng Shǐ'')
*c. 1350
**''[[Baudouin de Sebourc]]'' (probably from [[County of Hainaut|Hainaut]])
**''Prick of Conscience'' ([[Yorkshire]])
**[[White Book of Rhydderch]]
**''[[The Tale of Gamelyn]]'' (anonymous)
**'William' – ''[[William of Palerne]]'' (English translation)
*c. 1352
**Bahubali Pandita of Sringeri – ''Dharmanathapuranam''
**''[[Wynnere and Wastoure]]'' (anonymous)
*1353
**[[Giovanni Boccaccio]] – ''[[The Decameron]]''
*c. 1355
**[[Giovanni Boccaccio]] – ''[[Corbaccio]]''
*c. 1360–84
**[[John of Fordun]] – ''[[Chronica Gentis Scotorum]]''
*1365
**[[Mpu Prapanca]] – ''[[Nagarakretagama]]''
*c. 1367
**[[William Langland]] (presumed author) – ''[[Piers Plowman]]'' (earliest likely date)
*1368–71
**[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] – ''[[The Book of the Duchess]]''
*1370
**Bureau of History of the [[Ming dynasty]], under direction of [[Song Lian]] – ''[[History of Yuan]]'' (元史, ''Yuán Shǐ'')
*1371
**''[[The Travels of Sir John Mandeville]]'' (anonymous)
**[[Geoffroy IV de la Tour Landry]] – ''[[The Book of the Knight of the Tower]]''
**Kakuichi (compiler) – ''[[The Tale of the Heike]]'' (平家物語, ''Heike Monogatari'')
**[[Ibn Marzuq]] – ''The Correct and Fine Traditions About the Glorious Deeds of our Master Abu 'l-Hasan'' (''Musnad as-sahid al-hasan fi maʿathir mawlana Abi 'l Hasan'')
*c. 1374
**''[[Beatrijs]]''
*1375
**[[John Barbour (poet)|John Barbour]] – ''[[The Brus]]''
*1376
**[[John Wycliffe]] – ''De civili dominio (On Civil Dominion)''<ref>''History Today'', Vol. 65/5, May 2015 [http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/john-wycliffe-condemned-heretic?mc_cid=817a895eb7&mc_eid=3765fee9b9 Retrieved 4 May 2017.]</ref>
*1377
**[[Ibn Khaldun]] – ''[[Muqaddimah]]'' (Prolegomena)
*1378
**[[Qu You]] – ''[[Jiandeng Xinhua]]'' (剪灯新话, "New stories told while trimming the wick")
*1381
**''Amarkosh'' (अमरकोश, [[Sanskrit]]-[[Nepal Bhasa]] dictionary)
*1382
**[[Jacobus de Teramo]] – ''[[Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Luciferi contra Jesum Christum]]''
**[[Red Book of Hergest]] (soon after this date)
*c. 1383
**[[Sofonii of Razan]] – ''[[Zadonshchina]]''
*1384
**''Terç del Crestià'', volume 3 of ''[[Lo Crestià]]''<ref>[http://www.cuinant.com/pdf/29%20maig.pdf Francesc Eiximenis. Història de la nostra gastronomia] Article by Juan A. Fernández''Sóller'', 29 May 2010, p. 18 {{in lang|ca}}</ref>
*Late 1380s
**[[Walter Hilton]] – ''The Scale of Perfection''
*1387
**[[John Trevisa]] – translation of [[Ranulf Higden]]'s ''Polychronicon'', including "[[Dialogue on Translation Between a Lord and a Clerk]]"
*1389
**''Gopalraj Vamshavali'' (गोपालराज वंशावली, a history of Nepal)
*c. 1390
**Anonymous – ''[[The Forme of Cury]]'' (earliest cookbook in the English language)
*1390
**[[John Gower]] – ''[[Confessio Amantis]]''
*1390s
**[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] – ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''
*1395
**Lady [[Julian of Norwich]] – ''[[Revelations of Divine Love]]'', first published book in [[English language]] to be written by a woman.<ref name=unesco10>{{cite web|url=http://www.unesco.org.uk/uploads/Norwich%20UNESCO%20City%20of%20Literature%2010%20things.pdf|title=10 things to know about Norwich|publisher=UNESCO|date=November 2012|access-date=11 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302125621/http://www.unesco.org.uk/uploads/Norwich%20UNESCO%20City%20of%20Literature%2010%20things.pdf|archive-date=2 March 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
**Mangaraja II – ''Mangaraja Nighantu'' (lexicon, 1398)
**'[[Pearl Poet]]'
***''[[Sir Gawain and the Green Knight]]''
***''[[Pearl (poem)|Pearl]]''
***''[[Cleanness]]''
***''[[Patience (poem)|Patience]]''
**[[Sayana]] – commentary on the Vedas.
**''[[Ipomadon]]'' ([[Middle English]] tail-rhyme verse version; earliest likely date)
**''[[South English Legendary]]''
**''[[Völsunga saga]]'' (approximate date of written version)
**''[[Water Margin]]'' (水浒传, ''Shui Hu Zhuan''; approximate date of earliest components known)
*c. 1399
**[[Bernat Metge]] - ''The Dream (Lo Somni)'', first humanist work in Catalan.
**[[Christine de Pizan]]
***''Cent Ballades d'Amant et de Dame, Virelyas, Rondeaux''
***''L'Épistre au Dieu d'amours''
***''L'Épistre de Othéa a Hector''
*Unknown 
**''[[Egils saga einhenda ok Ásmundar berserkjabana]]''
**[[Epic of Sundiata]]
**''[[Grettis saga]]'' (approximate date)
**Kavi Malla – ''Manmathavijaya''
**[[Peterborough Psalter]]

===Drama===
*[[Li Qianfu]] – ''[[Circle of Chalk]]'' ({{zh|c=灰闌記|p=huīlán jì}})
*c. 1350 – ''Misteri d'Elx'' ([[Valencian language|Valencian]])
*1358–76 – [[Katherine of Sutton]] (adaptations) – ''Depositio'', ''Descensus Christi'', ''Elevatio'' and ''Visitatio''
*Late 14th century – ''[[Ordinalia]]'' ([[Cornish language|Middle Cornish]])

==Births==
*1303 – [[Bridget of Sweden]] (Birgitta Birgersdotter), Swedish mystic, writer and saint (died 1373)
*1304 – [[Petrarch]] (Francesco Petrarca) Tuscan poet (died 1374)
*1313 – [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], Italian writer (died 1375)
*c. 1315 or 1317 – [[Hafez]], Persian poet (died 1390)
*1320 – [[Lalleshwari]], Kashmiri Hindu poet (died 1392)
*1332: [[27 May]] – [[Ibn Khaldun]], North African historiographer and philosopher (died 1406)
*c. 1332 – [[Catherine of Vadstena]], Swedish mystic, writer and saint (died 1381)
*1333 – [[Kan'ami]] (Kan'ami Kiyotsugu (観阿弥 清次), Japanese [[Noh]] actor (died 1384)
*c. 1340–45 – [[Walter Hilton]], English mystic writing in Latin and English (died 1396)
*c. November 1342 – [[Julian of Norwich]], English religious writer and mystic (died c. 1416)
*1343 – [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], English poet (died 1400)
*1347 – [[Catherine of Siena]], Italian theologian and saint (died 1380)
*1348 – [[Jan of Jenštejn]], Archbishop of Prague, writer, composer and poet (died 1400)
*c. 1363 – [[Zeami Motokiyo]] (世阿弥 元清), Japanese Noh actor and playwright (died c. 1443)
*1364 – [[Christine de Pizan]], Venetian-born Middle French court poet and writer (died c. 1430)
*c. 1368 – [[Thomas Hoccleve]], English poet and clerk (died 1426)
*c. 1373 – [[Margery Kempe]], English mystic and autobiographer (died c. 1440)
*1378 – [[Zhu Quan]] (朱權), Prince of Ning, Chinese military commander, feudal lord, historian and playwright (died 1448)
*1384 – [[Enrique de Villena]], Spanish writer, theologian and poet (died 1434)
*1393 – [[John Capgrave]], English historian and scholastic theologian (died 1464)
*1398 – [[Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana]], Castilian politician and poet (died 1458)

==Deaths==
*After 1306 – [[Adam de la Halle]], French [[trouvère]] poet (born c. 1237)
*1308 – [[Duns Scotus]], Scottish philosopher and theologian (born c. 1266)
*1309 – [[Angela of Foligno]], Italian mystic and saint (born [[13th century in literature|1248]])
*1310: [[1 June]] – [[Marguerite Porete]], French mystic (burnt as heretic, year of birth unknown)
*1315: [[10 March]] – [[Agnes Blannbekin]], Austrian [[Beguine]] and Christian mystic (born c. 1244)
*c. 1315 – [[Ramon Llull]], Majorcan polymath and novelist in Catalan (born c. 1232)
*1321: [[14 September]] – [[Dante Alighieri]], Italian poet (born c. 1265)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/jun/09/dantealighieri|title=Dante Alighieri|website=The Guardian|access-date=1 July 2017}}</ref>
*1325:
**[[7 January]] – King [[Denis of Portugal]], poet
**October – [[Amir Khusrow]], Sufi poet
*1345: [[14 April]] – [[Richard de Bury]], English bishop and bibliophile (born 1287) 
*1349: September – [[Richard Rolle]], English hermit, mystic and religious writer (probably born between 1390 and 1400)
*c. 1350 – [[Yoshida Kenkō]] (吉田 兼好), Japanese author and Buddhist monk (probably born 1283)
*1364: [[12 March]] – [[Ranulf Higden]], English chronicler
*1373: [[23 July]] – [[Bridget of Sweden]] (Birgitta Birgersdotter), Swedish mystic, writer and saint<ref>{{cite book|author=Fr. Paolo O. Pirlo, SHMI|title=My First Book of Saints|year=1997|publisher=Sons of Holy Mary Immaculate – Quality Catholic Publications|isbn=971-91595-4-5|pages=158–159|chapter=St. Bridget}}</ref>
*1374: [[19 July]] – [[Petrarch]], Italian poet<ref>{{cite book|author=Richard K. Emmerson|title=Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BhyOAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA522|date=18 October 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-77519-2|pages=522}}</ref>
*1375: [[21 December]] – [[Giovanni Boccaccio]], Italian poet<ref>{{cite book|author=Giovanni Boccaccio|title=The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=33oV6WJA73wC&pg=PR23|year=1893|publisher=Lawrence and Bullen|pages=23}}</ref>
*1377: April – [[Guillaume de Machaut]], French poet and composer
*1380:
**[[29 April]] – [[Catherine of Siena]], Italian theologian and saint
**[[2 December]] – [[John of Ruysbroeck]] (Jan van Ruysbroeck), Flemish mystic (born 1293 or 1294)
*1381: [[24 March]] – [[Catherine of Vadstena]], Swedish mystic, writer and saint
*1384:
** [[8 June]] – [[Kan'ami]] (Kan'ami Kiyotsugu, 観阿弥 清次), Japanese Noh playwright and actor (born 1333);
** December – [[John Wycliffe]], philosopher, translator and theologian (born c.1320);<ref>Reetzke, James. ''Biographical Sketches: A Brief History of the Lord's Recovery.'' Chicago: Chicago Bibles and Books, 2003: 29. Print.</ref>
** [[Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani]], Persian [[Sufism|Sūfī]], poet scholar.<ref>[http://www.al-islam.org/ Al-islam.org] [http://www.al-islam.org/encyclopedia/chapter3/4.html]</ref>
*1392 – [[Lalleshwari]], Kashmiri Shaivite poet and mystic
*1395: [[13 March]] – [[John Barbour (poet)|John Barbour]], Scottish poet
*1396: [[24 March]] – [[Walter Hilton]], English Augustinian mystic writing in Latin and English (born c. 1340–45)
*1400: [[25 October]] – [[Geoffrey Chaucer]], English poet (born c. 1343)<ref name=Chaucer />

==See also==
* [[14th century in poetry]]
* [[13th century in literature]]
* [[15th century in literature]]
* [[List of works of fiction set in the 14th century]]
* [[List of years in literature]]

== References ==
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