Editing 1260 (section)

==== Arts and culture ====
* [[October 24]] – The [[Cathedral of Chartres]] is dedicated in the presence of King [[Louis IX of France]] (the cathedral is now a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]]).<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QcNViPYPgLQC&q=1260+Chartres+Cathedral&pg=PA54-IA2|title=High Gothic Sculpture at Chartres Cathedral, the Tomb of the Count of Joigny, and the Master of the Warrior Saints|last=Morganstern|first=Anne McGee|publisher=Pennsylvania State Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-271-04865-9|location=University Park, PA|pages=73|language=en|chapter=Chapter Five: The North Transept Porch of Chartres Cathedral}}</ref>
* [[Jacobus de Voragine]] compiles his work, the ''[[Golden Legend]]'', a late [[medieval]] best-seller.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQnm3sNf4MUC&q=1260+Jacobus+da+Varagine&pg=PP17|title=The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints|last=Ryan|first=William Granger|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=1995|isbn=978-0-691-00153-1|editor-last=Vorágine|editor-first=Jacobo de|location=Princeton, NJ|pages=xiii|language=en|orig-date=1993}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qmdjDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Jacobus+da+Varagine&pg=PA121|title=Solitudo: Spaces and Places of Solitude in Late Medieval and Early Modern Cultures|last=Delaure|first=Dominic E.|publisher=BRILL|year=2018|isbn=9789004367432|editor-last=Enenkel|editor-first=Karl A. E.|location=Leiden, Boston|pages=121|language=en|chapter=Chapter 4: Concepts of Solitude in Jacobus de Voragine's Legenda aurea|editor2-last=Göttler|editor2-first=Christine}}</ref>
* The [[mosaic]] ''Christ between the Virgin and St Minias'' is made on the facade of [[Florence]]'s [[Basilica di San Miniato al Monte]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oXi0BgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Christ+between+the+Virgin+and+St+Minias&pg=PA164|title=The Rough Guide to Florence & the best of Tuscany|last1=Buckley|first1=Jonathan|last2=Jepson|first2=Tim|publisher=Rough Guides UK|year=2009|isbn=978-1-84836-197-3|location=New York, London, Delhi|pages=160|language=en}}</ref>
* German [[Music theory|musical theorist]] [[Franco of Cologne]] publishes ''Ars Cantus Mensurabilis'', in which he advances a new theory of musical notation, in which the length of a musical note is denoted by the shape of that note, a system still used today.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uJFxDwAAQBAJ&q=1260+Ars+Cantus+Mensurabilis&pg=PA59|title=Music in the Middle Ages: A Reference Guide: A Reference Guide|last=Lord|first=Suzanne|publisher=Greenwood Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-313-08368-6|location=Westport, CT and London|pages=59|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ySQ49B5JyIgC&q=1260+Ars+Cantus+Mensurabilis&pg=PA89|title=Giving Voice to Love: Song and Self-Expression from the Troubadours to Guillaume de Machaut|last=Peraino|first=Judith A.|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-19-975724-4|location=Oxford, New York|pages=89|language=en}}</ref>
* Construction begins on the [[Dunkeld Cathedral]] in [[Perthshire]], Scotland.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-i8ZAQAAMAAJ&q=1260+Dunkeld+Cathedral|title=Scotland: An Encyclopedia of Places & Landscapes|last1=Munro|first1=David M.|last2=Gittings|first2=Bruce|publisher=Harper Collins|year=2006|isbn=978-0-00-472466-9|location=London and New York|pages=175|language=en}}</ref>
* Construction begins on the [[cathedral]]s at [[Meißen]] and [[Schwerin]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4DBAgAAQBAJ&q=1260+Meissen+Cathedral&pg=PA265|title=The Rise of Heritage: Preserving the Past in France, Germany and England, 1789–1914|last=Swenson|first=Astrid|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2013|isbn=978-1-107-46911-2|location=Cambridge and New York|pages=265|language=en}}</ref>
* [[Nicola Pisano]] sculpts the [[pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CurSh3Sh_KMC&q=1260+Pisa+pulpit+Pisano&pg=PA747|title=Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages|last1=Magill|first1=Frank Northen|last2=Aves|first2=Alison|publisher=Routledge|year=1998|isbn=978-1-57958-041-4|volume=II: The Middle Ages|location=London and New York|pages=747|language=en}}</ref>