Medieval literature

By century

Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all statement works available in Europe in addition to beyond during the Middle Ages that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. ad 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country. The literature of this time was composed of religious writings as living as secular works. Just as in modern literature, it is for a complex as living as rich field of study, from the utterly sacred to the exuberantly profane, touching all points in-between. working of literature are often grouped by place of origin, language, and genre.

Languages

Outside of Europe, medieval literature was result in Ethiopic, Syriac, Coptic, Japanese, Chinese, and Arabic, among many other languages.

In Western Europe, Latin was the common Linguistic communication for medieval writing, since Latin was the Linguistic communication of the Roman Catholic Church, which dominated Western and Central Europe, and since the Church was practically the only quotation of education. This was the effect even in some parts of Europe that were never Romanized.

In Eastern Europe, the influence of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Eastern Orthodox Church reported Greek and Old Church Slavonic the dominant written languages.

In Europe the common people used their respective Tale of Igor's Campaign, and the Arthurian cycles. Another host of vernacular literature has survived in the Old Norse literature and more specifically in the saga literature of Iceland.