6 April (Good Friday) – Tuscan writer Petrarch sees a woman he names Laura in the church of Sainte-Claire d'Avignon, which awakes in him a lasting passion. He writes a series of sonnets and other poems in Italian dedicated to her up to about 1368, which are collected into Il Canzoniere, an influential model for Renaissance culture.
1370–1398 – Approximate date of production of the earliest part of the Sankt Florian Psalter, one of the earliest surviving texts to use the Polish language.
1384 – Henry of Langenstein writes his letter, De scismate, to Echard von Dersch, Bishop of Worms.[9]
1386: October – Geoffrey Chaucer is obliged to give up most of his official offices in London and retires to Kent where he may work on The Canterbury Tales.[10]
1388 – Revision of Wycliffe's Bible is completed by John Purvey, and Wyclif's followers, known as Lollards, begin to be persecuted in England.
1398 – The early 13th century carved wooden text of the Tripitaka Koreana is moved to the HaeinsaBuddhist temple in modern-day South Korea, where it will remain into the 21st century.
Ibn Marzuq – The Correct and Fine Traditions About the Glorious Deeds of our Master Abu 'l-Hasan (Musnad as-sahid al-hasan fi maʿathir mawlana Abi 'l Hasan)
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^William Morris (1888). A Dream of John Ball: And A King's Lesson. Reeves & Turner. p. 31.
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^Francesc Eiximenis. Història de la nostra gastronomia Article by Juan A. FernándezSóller, 29 May 2010, p. 18 (in Catalan)
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^Giovanni Boccaccio (1893). The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Lawrence and Bullen. p. 23.
^Reetzke, James. Biographical Sketches: A Brief History of the Lord's Recovery. Chicago: Chicago Bibles and Books, 2003: 29. Print.