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- The defeat of the Muslims at Tours, France, in 732 is
the subject of the Song of Roland, covered in "The
Formation of a Western Literature" (see
pages 1702–1767 in volume B).
- One possible source for the chain-tale format of the
Thousand and One Nights is Somadeva's Kathasaritsagara
(Sanskrit), covered in "India's Classical Age"
(see pages 1342–1352 in volume
B).
- The Thousand and One Nights was a source for
European chain-tales such as Boccaccio's the Decameron
(Italian), Marguerite de Navarre's the Heptameron
(French), and Chaucer's English-language the Canterbury
Tales (see pages 1963–1991
and 2045–2119 in volume B and pages 2564–2591
in volume C).
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