– Hrotsvitha, Saxon secular canoness and writer of Latin poetry and drama (born c. 935) 1029 – Koshikibu no Naishi (小式部内侍), Japanese waka poet 1037 – Avicenna (Ibn-Sīnā), Persian polymath 1064: August 15 – Ibn Hazm (al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī), Andalusian polymath (born 994) 1079: February 22 – John of Fécamp, Italian-born Benedictine abbot and spiritual writer In literature Paul Kingsnorth's novel The Wake (2014) is set around the Norman conquest of England. See also 11th century in poetry 10th century in literature 12th century in literature list of years in literature References Medieval literature History of literature