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Also Known As Laghamon • Layamon
Flourished 1101 - 1200
Notable Works “Brut”
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John Barbour
Scottish author
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Robert Mannyng
English poet
Geoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer
English writer
Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
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Geoffrey Of Monmouth
English bishop and chronicler
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John Gower
English poet
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William Langland
English poet
Original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley for an 1893–94 edition of Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory.
Thomas Malory
English writer
Lydgate, detail from a manuscript, 15th century; in the British Library (Harley Ms. 4826)
John Lydgate
English writer
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Osbern Bokenam
English author
Hoccleve, detail of an illumination from the manuscript of De regimine principum, early 15th century; in the British Library (MS. Royal 17 D VI)
Thomas Hoccleve
English poet
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Chrétien de Troyes
French poet
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Nicephorus Callistus Xanthopoulos
Byzantine historian
Medieval illuminated painting by Loyset Liedet showing the Battle of Sluys with armored soldiers fighting on crowded wooden ships, some falling into the water, with banners and sails overhead.
Jean Froissart
French poet and historian
Schubart, Christian Friedrich Daniel
Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart
German poet
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Hartmann von Aue
German poet
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Wace
Anglo-Norman author
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Garcia de Resende
Portuguese poet
Chastellain, Georges
Georges Chastellain
Burgundian author
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John Gardner
American author

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