II. Medieval Period
- The New Testament
- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur
- Gottfried, Tristan
- Eschenbach, Parzival
- Saint Augustine, The Confessions
- Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queen
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Cressida
- Boccaccio, Decameron
- The Thousand and One Nights
- Jataka Tales
- Niccolò Macchiavelli, The Prince
- Song of Roland
- François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Wu Cheng-en, Journey to the West: Monkey
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote