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| 731 |
| | | The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people | |
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| c. 800 |
| | | Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy | |
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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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