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...
Year 1259 (MCCLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. September – Battle of Pelagonia:...
Masnavi 1259 – Bonaventure – Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum (Journey of the Mind to God) c. 1259–1265 – Thomas Aquinas – Summa contra Gentiles c. 1259–1266 –...
Folquet de Lunel, Dalfinet, and Cerverí de Girona in the paid service of Peter the Great Estat aurai lonc temps en pessamen by Olivier lo Templier, celebrating...
Ollamh Síl Muireadaigh Paviot, Jacques (2006). "Odo of Burgundy (d. 1266)". In Murray, Alan V. (ed.). The Crusades: An Encyclopedia. Vol. 2. ABC-CLIO. p...
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...
des Baux Manuscript "V", one of the earliest preserved chansonniers, is compiled in Catalonia. Now in the Biblioteca Marciana, Venice, fr. App. cod. XI....
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...
of poetry, is completed by Saadi Cecco d'Ascoli (died 1327), Italian encyclopaedist, physician and poet Yuan Haowen (born 1190), Chinese Sanqu poetry writer...
an imperial anthology of Japanese waka poetry, finished three years after Retired Emperor Go-Saga ordered it in 1248; consists of 20 volumes containing...
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...
Theologiae (1265–1274), the Disputed Questions on Truth (1256–1259) and the Summa contra Gentiles (1259–1265). His commentaries on Christian Scripture and on...
in traditional English poetry and verse drama. The term describes the rhythm, or meter, established by the words in each line. Rhythm is measured in small...
twenty-volume imperial anthology consisting of 1,925 Japanese waka ordered in1259 by the Retired Emperor Go-Saga. Book of Aneirin (Welsh) written (or more...
1250 and 1259 – August 1300) was an Italian poet. He was also a friend and intellectual influence on Dante Alighieri. Cavalcanti was born in Florence...
history, exciting a renewed interest in Classical civilisation. The Sofia Psalter is produced in Bulgaria. The famine in China, which had lasted since 1332...
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