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| c. 750 |
| | | The professional bards of the Germanic tribes give lasting life to Norse legend | |
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| c. 800 |
| | | Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons | |
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| c. 1180 |
| | | The shared memories and legends of Nordic peoples are brought together in a great German epic, the Nibelungenlied | |
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| c. 1205 |
| | | The story of Parsifal and the Holy Grail becomes the subject of a courtly epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach | |
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| c. 1250 |
| | | Tannhäuser is one of the Minnesinger, the German equivalents of the French troubadours | |
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| 1524 |
| | | William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English | |
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| 1714 |
| | | In his Monadology Leibniz describes a universe consisting of forceful interactive parts that he calls 'monads' | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's romantic novel, The Sorrows of Young Werther, brings him an immediate European reputation | |
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| 1774 |
| | | Goethe's play Götz von Berlichingen, a definitive work of Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress), has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1781 |
| | | German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes the first of his three 'critiques', The Critique of Pure Reason | |
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