Emmae Reginae probably by a Flemish monk of the Abbey of Saint Bertin, Saint-Omer Mid-11th century – Sponsus After c. 1040 – Le Chanson de Roland (The Song of Roland), original version, perhaps by Turold c. 1049 – Chronicle of Nantes (Chronicon Namnetense) concludes c. 1054–76 – Cançó de Santa Fe by an anonymous clerk in a Catalan dialect of Old Occitan After 1056 – Liber precum variarum by John of Fécamp 1064 – Liniantu (歷年圖 "Chart of Successive Years") by Sima Guang 1066 – by Sima Guang Leipian (類篇 Classified Chapters; Chinese dictionary) Tongzhi (通志 Comprehensive Records (of Chinese history)) 1070 – Kutadgu Bilig (The Wisdom Which Brings Good Fortune), by Yusuf Khass Hajib of Balasagun in the Kara-Khanid Khanate (Uyghur language) c. 1070 – Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari (浜松中納言物語), attributed to Takasue's Daughter c. 1070 – Kathāsaritsāgara by Somadeva 1073–76 – Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum by Adam of Bremen c. 1075 – Vita sancta Servatii and Miracula sancta Servatii (life and miracles of Saint Servatius) by Jocundus 1077 – Monologion (Monologue) by Anselm 1077–78 – Proslogion (Address) by Anselm 1084 –Zizhi Tongjian (資治通鑑; Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government) by Sima Guang 1086 – Domesday Book c. 1087 – Almanac by Abū Ishāq Ibrāhīm al-Zarqālī (Arzachel) 1088 – Dream Pool Essays (夢溪筆談, Mèng Xī Bǐ Tán) by Shen Kuo 1098 – Elucidarium by Honorius Augustodunensis Late 11th century The Incoherence of the Philosophers (تهافت الفلاسفة, ) by Al-Ghazali Mabinogion (possible date) Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Persian) Siyasatnama (سياست نامه) by Nizam al-Mulk (Persian) 11th or 12th century – Betha Meic Creiche (Life of Mac Creiche, in Middle Irish) c. 11th century – The Records of Origin on Things and Affairs (事物纪原), by Gao Cheng Heian period Sarashina Nikki (更級日記, a travel diary) by Takasue's Daughter Yoru no Nezame (夜の寝覚, Wakefulness at Night), attributed to Takasue's Daughter, but perhaps written after 1086 Births c. 1001 – Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, al-Andalusian poet and princess (died 1091) c. 1003 – Ibn Zaydún, Arab poet (died 1071) c. 1033 – Anselm of Canterbury, Aosta-born scholastic philosopher, archbishop and saint (died 1109) 1037: January 8 – Su Shi, Chinese poet (died 1101) 1040: February 22 – Rashi, French rabbinical scholar (died 1105) 1048: May 18 – Omar Khayyám, Persian philosopher, scientist and presumed poet (died 1131) 1078: Ibn Quzman, al-Andalusian poet (died 1160) Deaths 1001 – Wang Yucheng, Chinese poet (born 954) c. 1002