14th century in literature

This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 14th century. TOC 1323 – The name Pléiade is adopted by a group of fourteen poets (seven men and seven women) in Toulouse. 1324: 3 May (Holy Cross Day) – The Consistori del Gay Saber, founded the previous year in Toulouse to revive and perpetuate the lyric poetry of the Old Occitan troubadors, holds its first contest. Arnaut Vidal de Castelnou d'Ari wins the violeta d'or (golden violet) for a sirventes in praise of the Virgin Mary. At about this date, Raimon de Cornet writes Doctrinal de trobar in support of the aims of the Gay Saber. 1327 Between 20 January and 21 September – The deposed King Edward II of England perhaps writes the "Lament of Edward II". 6 April (Good Friday) – Tuscan writer Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her up to about 1368, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture. 27 August – Death of Thomas Cobham, Bishop of Worcester in England. His books are bequeathed to the University of Oxford where they are installed in the University Church of St Mary the Virgin, forming the university's first library. 1329: February – French poet and composer Guillaume de Machaut is brought to the Siege of Medvėgalis by John of Bohemia so the king's crusading deeds can be commemorated in song and poetry. c. 1330 – Production of the Macclesfield Psalter in East Anglia. 1331 – Production of the Nuremberg Mahzor. 1341: 8 April – Petrarch becomes poet laureate at a ceremony in Rome. 1357 – The Polychronicon concludes, Ranulf Higden having ceased work on it at least a dozen years earlier. 1360 – The future English writer Geoffrey Chaucer is captured by the French during the Reims campaign of the Hundred Years' War and ransomed by King Edward III of England. 1362: September – Petrarch's library is donated to the Republic of Venice, although subsequently dispersed.