Romansch literature

Literature written in the Romansch language of eastern Switzerland. Apart from one 12th-century fragment, it dates from the time of the Reformation, in the 16th century. There are a number of religious texts, mainly Protestant but some Roman Catholic, from the 16th and 17th centuries. Secular literature begins with the Romantic movement (see Romanticism) in the 19th century. In recent times literature of every sort has been written in the language.