11th century in literature

Events

• c. 1000–1025 – The only surviving manuscript of Beowulf is written.
• 1016 – The Icelandic skald Bersi Skáldtorfuson is captured at the naval Battle of Nesjar and imprisoned.
• c. 1022 – Nannayya, Aadi Kavi, begins work on Andhra Mahabharatam, a translation of the Mahabharata into Telugu and the first work of Telugu literature.
• 1029 – Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni orders the library of Rey in Persia to be burned and all books to be deemed as heretical.
• 1070
• *The Temple of Literature, Hanoi, is founded in the Vietnamese capital.
• *King Bleddyn ap Cynfyn enacts new laws regulating the activities of Welsh bards and musicians.
• 1080–1086 – The Chinese poet and polymath Su Shi is sent into internal exile for political reasons. During this period he writes the first and second Chibifu.
• 1086 – Poet-ruler of Al-Andalus, Al-Mu'tamid ibn Abbad, kills his fellow-poet, former lover and vizier Muhammad ibn Ammar.

  New works

• 1000
• *Al-Tasrif, by Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi
• *The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries, by Abū Rayḥān al-Bīrūnī
• c. 1000 – The Battle of Maldon
• c. 1008–10 – The Diary of Lady Murasaki, by Murasaki Shikibu
• 1010: March 8 – Shahnameh by Ferdowsi
• 1011 – Manual by Byrhtferth of Ramsey Abbey
• 1012–18 – Chronicon Thietmari by Thietmar of Merseburg
• By 1018 – Confessio Theologica by John of Fécamp
• 1019 – Legenda Sancti Goeznovii by 'William'
• By 1021 – The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu
• 1021 – Book of Optics by Alhazen
• 1025 – The Canon of Medicine by Avicenna
• 1027 – The Book of Healing by Avicenna
• 1026–46 – Historiarum libri quinque ab anno incarnationis DCCCC usque ad annum MXLIV by Rodulfus Glaber
• c. 1040–44 – Wujing Zongyao by Zeng Gongliang, Ding Du, Yang Weide and others
• c. 1040–53 – Mukhtar al-hikam wa mahasin al-kalim, by al-Mubashshir ibn Fatiq
• 1041–42 – Encomium Emmae Reginae probably by a Flemish monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer
• Mid-11th century – Sponsus
• After c. 1040 – Le Chanson de Roland , original version, perhaps by Turold
• c. 1049 – Chronicle of Nantes concludes
• c. 1054–76 – Cançó de Santa Fe by an anonymous clerk in a Catalan dialect of Old Occitan
• After 1056 – Liber precum variarum by John of Fécamp
• 1064 – Liniantu by Sima Guang
• 1066 – by Sima Guang
• *Leipian
• *Tongzhi
• 1070 – Kutadgu Bilig, by Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate
• c. 1070 – Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari, attributed to Takasue's Daughter
• 1073–76 – Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by Adam of Bremen
• c. 1075 – Vita sancta Servatii and Miracula sancta Servatii by Jocundus
• 1077 – Monologion by Anselm
• 1077–78 – Proslogion by Anselm
• 1084 –Zizhi Tongjian by Sima Guang
• 1086 – Domesday Book
• c. 1087 – Almanac by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī
• 1088 – Dream Pool Essays by Shen Kuo
• 1098 – Elucidarium by Honorius Augustodunensis
• Late 11th century
• *The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Al-Ghazali
• *Mabinogion
• *Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• *Siyasatnama by Nizam al-Mulk
• 11th or 12th century – Betha Meic Creiche
• c. 11th century – The Records of Origin on Things and Affairs, by Gao Cheng
• Heian period
• *Sarashina Nikki by Takasue's Daughter
• *Yoru no Nezame, attributed to Takasue's Daughter, but perhaps written after 1086

  Births

• c. 1001 – Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, al-Andalusian poet and princess
• c. 1003 – Ibn Zaydún, Arab poet
• c. 1033 – Anselm of Canterbury, Aosta-born scholastic philosopher, archbishop and saint
• 1037: January 8 – Su Shi, Chinese poet
• 1040: February 22 – Rashi, French rabbinical scholar
• 1048: May 18 – Omar Khayyám, Persian philosopher, scientist and presumed poet
• 1078: Ibn Quzman, al-Andalusian poet

  Deaths

• 1001 – Wang Yucheng, Chinese poet
• c. 1002 – Hrotsvitha, Saxon secular canoness and writer of Latin poetry and drama
• 1029 – Koshikibu no Naishi, Japanese waka poet
• 1037 – Avicenna, Persian polymath
• 1064: August 15 – Ibn Hazm, Andalusian polymath
• 1079: February 22 – John of Fécamp, Italian-born Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer