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See also: Ancient literature, 10th century in literature, list of years in literature.

Literature of the 6th to 9th centuries (Early Middle Ages).

The bulk of literature in Classical Sanskrit dates to the Early Medieval period, but in most cases cannot be dated to a specific century.

Texts

• 6th century:
  • Aryabhatiya
  • Brihat-Samhita
  • Chronicle of Fredegar
  • Commentary on Job by Pope Gregory I
  • Etymologiae by Isidore of Seville
  • Historia Francorum by Gregory of Tours
  • The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes
  • Secret History by Procopius
  • writer listed, rather than text:
    • Agathias (writer)
    • Dandi (poet) (writer)
    • Evagrius Scholasticus
    • Virahanka (writer)

• 7th century:
  • Chronicon Paschale
  • Qur'an
  • Origo Gentis Langobardorum
  • writer listed, rather than text:
    • Bhartrihari (writer)
    • Bhāskara I (writer)
    • Brahmagupta (writer)
    • Yan Shigu (writer)

• 8th century:
  • Dream of the Rood
  • Hildebrandslied
  • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum by Bede
  • Historia gentis Langobardorum by Paulus Diaconus
  • writer listed, rather than text:
    • Ibn Ishaq (writer)
    • John of Damascus (writer)
    • Khalil ibn Ahmad (writer)
    • Lalla (writer)
    • Wahb ibn Munabbih (writer)

• 9th century:
  • Al-Kitāb al-muḫtaṣar fī ḥisāb al-ğabr wa-l-muqābala
  • De bellis Parisiacae urbis (The Wars of the City of Paris), in Latin, by Abbo Cernuus (890s)
  • The Book of One Thousand and One Nights compiled by Abu abd-Allah Muhammed el-Gahshigar
  • Heliand
  • Liber Pontificalis
  • Muspilli
  • Ragnarsdrápa by Bragi Boddason
  • Ynglingatal, Haustlöng by Þjóðólfr of Hvinir
  • Waldere
  • writer listed, rather than text:
    • Ahmad Ibn Yahya al-Baladhuri (writer)
    • Al-Waqidi (writer)
    • Ya'qubi (writer)
    • Govindsvamin (writer)

See also

• Byzantine literature
• Medieval Bulgarian literature
• Centuries in poetry: 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th
• Puranas

References

• Contreni, John J. (1991). "The Carolingian renaissance: education and literary culture", in Rosamond McKitterick: The New Cambridge Medieval History: II. c. 700 - c. 900. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-36292-X. 
• Mango, Cyril (2002). "The Revival of Learning", in Cyril Mango: The Oxford History of Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-814098-3. 

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