information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Death years link to the corresponding "[year] inpoetry" article. There are...
works in the northern dialects of France. The first known trouvère was Chrétien de Troyes (fl. 1160s–80s). The dominant form of German lyric poetryin the...
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poetry (French: Poésie française) is a category of French literature. It may include Francophone poetry composed outside France and poetry written in...
Goliardic poetry by Hugh Primas of Orléans c. 1151–54 Waka anthology Shika Wakashū (Collection of Word Blossom) compiled by Fujiwara no Akisue (藤原 顕季) 1160s Goliardic...
century Hartmann von Aue (c. 1160 - 1210s), writing in Middle High German Emergence of Turkic poetry Michael Glykas Theodore Prodromos (c. 1100 - c. 1165/70)...
Early Chinese music and poetry was influenced by the Classic of Poetry, Confucius and the Chinese poet and statesman Qu Yuan. In early imperial China, porcelain...
only eight supernovae in the Milky Way observed in recorded history. It appears in the constellation Cassiopeia and is visible in the night sky for about...
Saxon and Bavarian duchies and all his imperial fiefs at an Imperial Diet in Würzburg for having breached the king's peace. Emperor Frederick I (Barbarossa)...
office) until her death in 1213. May 20 – Diet of Pentecost: Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, organises a conference in Mainz. During the diet...
treaty. Autumn – William IV, count of Nevers, arrives in Palestine with a contingent of elite knights. In Jerusalem he is present during a council with Amalric...
"national painter" in Georgia as he produced the classic illustrations that have been frequently used in editions of Rustaveli's poetry. A sculpture and...
place after a year of foreshocks. Its name is taken from the city of Hama, in west-central Syria (then under Seljuk rule), where the most casualties are...
(Erlingsson) defeat the 15-year-old King Haakon II (Sigurdsson), who is killed in battle in Romsdal after a 5-year reign. July 15 – Ladislaus II, duke of Bosnia...
approaches the city. Zengi raises the siege after hearing rumours of trouble in Mosul. He rushes back with his army to take control. There, Zengi is praised...
I (Komnenos) orders the arrest of all Venetians in his empire, and seizes their ships and goods. In September, Doge Vitale II Michiel leads a Venetian...
tries to delimit spiritual and royal jurisdictions in the Constitutions of Clarendon, written in large part by his councilor Richard de Luci. November...
wild boar on Mount Taurus in Cilicia. He is succeeded by his 24-year-old son Manuel I, who is chosen as his successor, in preference to his elder surviving...
calendar. Spring – Andronikos I Komnenos, son of Isaac Komnenos, is imprisoned in the imperial palace for conspiring against his uncle, Emperor Manuel I (Komenenos)...
the obverse of Crusader coins, e.g. in coins of the County of Tripoli minted under Raymond II or III c. 1140s–1160s show an "eight-rayed star with pellets...
of Goliardic poetry and one of the stellar poets of the Latin Middle Ages. Knowledge about him comes essentially from his poems found in manuscripts:...
strife between him and his wife, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, in order that he may dally in western Herefordshire with his mistress, Rosamund Clifford,...
(Barbarossa) is crowned King of Burgundy at Arles. He will repeat the ceremony in 1186. Returning to Germany, he begins proceedings against Henry III (the Lion)...
rebellion in Lombardy (Northern Italy). The Diet of Roncaglia is convoked by Frederick I. He mobilises an army of 100,000 men and leaves in June for a...
led by King Baldwin IV (the Leper) is ambushed by Muslim forces in a narrow valley in the forest of Banyas. Baldwin is only able to extricate his forces...
Murcia. His army is routed at a place called the "merchant field" near Alhama, in the valley of the Guadalentín. Benjamin of Tudela, Spanish Jewish traveler...
so, she would not appoint him the title. The first nunnery is inaugurated in Iceland, the Kirkjubæjar Abbey. Caliph al-Nasir marries Princess Seljuki....
Kara Arslan – who has made an alliance with Joscelin II, count of Edessa. In support of the alliance Joscelin marches out of Edessa with a Crusader army...
supplies, to make Manuel's march more difficult, and harass the Byzantine army, in order to force it into the Meander Valley. Kilij Arslan II, ruler of the Sultanate...
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