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| c. 1300 |
| | | Duns Scotus, known as the Subtle Doctor in medieval times, later provides humanists with the name Dunsman or dunce | |
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| c. 1340 |
| | | William of Ockham advocates paring down arguments to their essentials, an approach later known as Ockham's Razor | |
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| c. 1367 |
| | | A narrator who calls himself Will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman | |
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| 1367 |
| | | One of four new yeomen of the chamber in Edward III's household is Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| c. 1375 |
| | | The courtly poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight tells of a mysterious visitor to the round table of King Arthur | |
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| 1385 |
| | | Chaucer completes Troilus and Criseyde, his long poem about a legendary love affair in ancient Troy | |
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| c. 1387 |
| | | Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death | |
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| 1469 |
| | | Thomas Malory, in gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur – an English account of the French tales of King Arthur | |
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| 1510 |
| | | Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism | |
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| 1524 |
| | | William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English | |
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