an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, finished three years after Retired Emperor Go-Saga ordered it in 1248; consists of 20 volumes containing...
Year 1251 (MCCLI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. April – The first Shepherds' Crusade...
Guillaume de Puylaurens is present at the death of Raymond VII of Toulouse. 1251 – The carving is completed of the Tripitaka Koreana, a collection of Buddhist...
England, and James I of Aragon Arnaut Catalan and Alfonso X of Castile compose a tenso in which the former uses Occitan and the latter Galician-Portuguese...
Gautier de Metz wrote L'Image du monde (French, The Image of the world), a work in poem form about creation Henry Bate of Malines (died 1310), Flemish philosopher...
de joi ni de solatz in response to the loss of Jerusalem to the Mamelukes Guilhem Figueira writes Del preveire maior urging peace in Europe for a union...
the court of Theobald I of Navarre Amir Khusro (died 1325), Sufi, writing in Persian and Hindustani Fujiwara Toshinari no Musume died 1252 or 1253 (born...
assembled in Lombardy. It is one of the earliest of its kind, containing a wealth of Occitan lyric poetry. It is now in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena...
Peire Bremon Ricas Novas and Sordello attack each other in a string of sirventes Asukai Gayu (died 1301), Japanese waka poet September 26 – Fujiwara no...
Dutch woman mystic Cynddelw Brydydd Mawr, Welsh Ibn Sahl of Seville (1212/13–1251) John Peckham (d. 1292), Archbishop of Canterbury and probable author of...
of poetry, is completed by Saadi Cecco d'Ascoli (died 1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet Yuan Haowen (born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer...
Jordan was captured in battle by Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and never heard from again Ibn Sahl of Seville (died 1251), Arabic language Moorish...
literature but also these secular works. The Tibetan scholar Sakya Pandita (1182-1251) was a well known scholar of Sanskrit, and promoted the study of these secular...
Emperor Go-Saga orders a new imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry. It will be completed in 1265 by Fujiwara no Tameie, with assistance from Fujiwara no...