1200 in poetry

Events Sólarljóð (The Song of the Sun) an Old Norse poem, written in Iceland

Births Jehan Erart born 1200 or 1210 (died 1259), trouvère Ulrich von Liechtenstein (died 1278), German medieval nobleman, knight, politician, and Minnesänger possible Jayadeva (died unknown), Sanskrit poet known for the epic Gita Govinda

Deaths

Chand Bardai (born 1149), Hindu Brahmin and the court poet of the Indian king Prithviraj Chauhan Zhu Xi (born 1130), Confucian scholar, philosopher and writerLianbin Dai, “From Philology to Philosophy: Zhu Xi (1130–1200) as a Reader-Annotator.” In Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach, edited by Anthony Grafton and Glenn W. Most, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016, 136–163 (136).

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