1377 - Arts and Literature

1377 - Arts and Literature. May 10 – A deputy is appointed to take charge of Chaucer’s duties at customs, Chaucer being busy with diplomatic business. Geoffrey Chaucer makes two trips to France this year. Nicholas Oresme is elected bishop of Lisieux. Oresme's French translations from Latin versions of Aristotle are an important contribution to the development of the French language. Al-Jurjani returns to Shiraz from Constantinople to become a teacher. ...

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The political unification of the region into the state called Kievan Rus, from which modern Belarus, Russia and Ukraine trace their origins, occurred approximately a century before the adoption of Christianity in 988 and the establishment of the South Slavic Old Church Slavonic as the liturgical and literary language. Documentation of the language of this period is scanty, making it difficult at best fully to deter ...

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Old East Slavic language, Old East Slavic language - General considerations, Old East Slavic language - Literary language of Kievan Rus, Old East Slavic language - Primary Chronicle, Old East Slavic language - Tale of Igor's Campaign, Old East Slavic language - Old East Slavic Literature, Old East Slavic language - Notable texts

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