Talk:Medieval literature

message: When I put this together, I struggled over whether to add Islamic literature or not.  I don't want to seem as though I'm snubbing the major contributions of writers like Ibn Khaldun and Alhazen; on the contrary, it's because of my respect for Islamic literature in the Middle Ages that I wonder if it doesn't deserve its own seperate treatment--after all, the term "medieval" refers very specifically to Europe proper.  Any thoughts? Jwrosenzweig 20:03, 7 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old talk 

message: Nice article. Just a few points: I think the paragraph on courtly love really ought to link to Troubadour and I'd question the designation of the Divine Comedy as an epic. More an allegory, really. Layamon's Brut is a better second example of an epic from this period. Also, I'd suggest including the Mystery Plays. Apart from that, it's a matter of the red links turning blue. BTW, I agree with your decision not to include Islamic literature. Bmills 12:54, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Re Peer Review

message: I've added a picture.  Two questions: is it a good choice, and have I left it too big?  Any advice would be great. Jwrosenzweig 21:56, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: picture added

message: Shouldn't the featured article blurb be on the article itself rather than talk?Brooklyn Nellie (Nricardo) 05:43, Mar 26, 2004 (UTC)
:I don't know why, but apparently marking featured articles occurs in talk (I looked at some others).  Curious.  But apparently this is policy. Jwrosenzweig 16:40, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: featured article blurb placement

message: One point that this article overlooks is that a good chunk of medieval literature literature is anonymous. The folk literature -- Beowulf, the Mabinogion, the Song of Roland -- lack one author's name, & are understood as the creation of a class of storytellers who made their living retelling these stories. It was with the waning of this folk culture that they came to be attached to certain poets or authors, & even then generations passed before much was recorded of these people beyond their names.
(The above is just a quick impression; please do not copy it into the article without verifying my facts first.) -- llywrch 19:18, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding something about anonymity is a great idea (though to my limited knowledge no authorship has ever been ascribed for either Beowulf or Roland...don't know about Mabinogion).  Do you think it should be an independent section?  And what should it focus on, beyond simply stating that numerous important works arose anonymously from a class of storytellers? Jwrosenzweig 21:13, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: anonymity in this stuff

message: Great article. I enjoyed it. :) --User:Jenmoa 19:38, 7 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praise 

message: Slavic literature is generally how it is categorized by Medieval scholars. To call it by its national origins is kinda out of place considering the time frame of "medieval". Stbalbach 23:50, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Slavic literature

message: I notice that the Early Medieval literature article includes works from outside the Greco-Roman-Judeo-Christian tradition--Sanskrit, Arabic, even Chinese. So I'm wondering if this article should either include non-Western texts (recognizing the problems with the term "Medieval" -- just as History of modern literature does in its lead) or change its name to specify that only Europe is being covered. Thoughts? Aristophanes68 (talk) 19:19, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, Early Medieval literature is more of a list than an article; but this question is one that has come up repeatedly with regard to articles on medieval topics—see Talk:European science in the Middle Ages/Archive 1#Is "Middle Ages" European? (and related discussions elsewhere on that article's talk page), for instance. My view is that "Middle Ages" and "medieval" refer specifically to a period of European history, so that the scope and title of this article are OK as they stand. That position is reflected in the scope of WikiProject Middle Ages and that of the article Middle Ages itself. Deor (talk) 21:33, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope: World or just Europe? 

message: Given the amount of time covered in this article, would it make more sense to organize the list of notable works chronologically rather than alphabetically? They could at least be grouped by centuries. It could give readers a better sense of the historical development. Also, I note that some titles are translated while many others are not--should everything be left in its original language? Aristophanes68 (talk) 06:52, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of works section 

message: The Irish had an extremely rich literature, as did the Icelanders. Why are they almost entirely overlooked?
Dvergrinn (talk) 23:25, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks to me like you'd do best to add links to the relevant articles in the "By region or language" and "Notable literature" sections and then to add examples to other sections as relevant. But this article isn't set up for a separate section on any individual traditions. Be BOLD! Aristophanes68 (talk) 00:13, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the Irish? 

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message: I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature#Article_review. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at  Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome. 
Posting message here too for neutrality sake
Thanks and greetings
Bookku (talk) 07:26, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Requesting wider attention

message: I wonder if we might want to revise the scope of this article to include non-European literature: it looks like the usage of "medieval" on Wikipedia might not reflect the usage of that word in scholarly contexts - for example, Google Scholar shows that terms like Medieval chinese literature, Medieval islamic literature, and medieval indian literature are commonly used to describe those periods. Additionally, it looks like this article is listed under Vital Articles along with Ancient literature, Early modern literature, etc. so there's a need for some sort of article that fills that gap and covers the broader scope of world literature. 
User:Deor, I noticed you reverted my last change - what are your thoughts on this?  - car chasm (talk) 19:05, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: My thoughts are as I gave them in the "Scope: World or just Europe?" thread above: This article rightly deals with the European Middle Ages. If you look at the Google searches you linked above, you'll see that "medieval" in Chinese and Indian contexts, for example, refers to historical periods different from the one treated here. It's just not very profitable to make this a mish-mash of different periodizations in different cultures, when a focus on medieval Europe produces a more coherent account. We have other articles that deal with non-European literatures. Deor (talk) 19:28, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisiting Article Scope