Barbour's 'Brus' (In Our Time)
1375 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss John Barbour's epic poem The Brus, or Bruce, which he wrote c1375. The Brus is the earliest surviving poem in Older Scots and the only source of many of the stories of King Robert I of Scotland (1274-1329), popularly known as Robert the Bruce, and his victory over the English at Bannockburn in 1314.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1375
- Peasants' Revolt in England (1381)
- Black Death (1346)
- Hundred Years' War (1337)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Age of Exploration (1418)