See also: 12th century in literature, other events of the 13th century, 14th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Events

• 1211 - Hélinand of Froidmont begins compiling his Chronicon.
• 1240 - Albert of Stade joins the Franciscan order and begins his chronicle.
• 1249 - September 27: Chronicler Guillaume de Puylaurens is present at the death of Raymond VII of Toulouse.

New books

• 13th c. Huon of Bordeaux
• ca. 1200 Nibelungenlied
• 1205 Lancelot-Grail
• early 13th c.
• Ancrene Wisse
• Farid al-Din Attarpoet :confrence of birds,Mosibatname(the book of sufferings)in persian
• Codex Gigas
• Guido delle Colonne - Historia destructionis Troiae
• Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival
• ca. 1215 - Bertrand de Bar-sur-Aube: Girard de Vienne
• Rumi - diwan-e Shams-e Tabrizi,masnavi in Persian
• ca. 1220s - Snorri Sturlusson: Prose Edda
• ca. 1230
• La Mort le roi Artu, French prose romance
• Guillaume de Lorris: First section of Romance of the Rose
• ca. 1230s - Post-Vulgate Cycle
• mid 13th c. - Doön de Mayence
• 1259 - Bonaventure: Itinerarium Mentis ad Deum (Journey of the Mind to God)
• ca. 1260 - Thomas Aquinas: Summa contra Gentiles
• sadi - Gulistan,Bustan poets and texts in Persian
• 1263 - Bonaventure: Life of St. Francis of Assisi
• ca. 1275 - Second section of Romance of the Rose - Jean de Meun
• ca. 1280s - The Owl and the Nightingale
• 1283 - Ramon Llull: Blanquerna
• 1293 - Dante Alighieri: La Vita Nuova
• ca. 1295 - Mathieu of Boulogne: Liber lamentationum Matheoluli (The Lamentations of Matheolus)
• 1298 - Marco Polo: The Travels of Marco Polo
• ca. 1300 - Gesta Romanorum

Births

• 1266 (probable) - Duns Scotus, philosopher and theologian (died 1308)

Deaths

• 1212 : Adam of Dryburgh, Anglo-Scots theologian (born c. 1140)
• 1228 (probable): Gervase of Tilbury, lawyer, statesman and writer (born c. 1150)
• 1251 (probable): Albertanus of Brescia, Latin prose writer (born c. 1195)
• 1252 (probable): Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Cistercian chronicler
• 1253 : Robert Grosseteste
• 1268 : Henry of Bracton
• 1274
• March 7 : Thomas Aquinas, philosopher and theologian
• July 12 : Bonaventure, philosopher and theologian
• 1285 : Rutebeuf
• 1294 : Roger Bacon