Readings in Medieval History

by Geary, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781442601208
• ISBN10: 1442601205
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education

Summary

For this new edition, Patrick J. Geary has incorporated more bibliographical information into the introductions to the readings. Five texts have been added to better reflect legal, religious, Polish, and women's history.

A glossary is provided to help with unfamiliar terms. For students who want to dig deeper into the primary sources, secondary readings about the primary sources are listed.

‘’Instructors of medieval history are fortunate to have at their disposal a new edition of the best selection of medieval primary courses in English translation available today. Like its predecessors, this fourth edition fulfills the promise expressed in the author's preface: to introduce us and our students to documents representing a great variety of genres, subjects, and places throughout medieval Europe and to present those documents in their entirety or in substantial portions. The documents allow us, the teachers, and more importantly, our students, the freedom to read in depth, select, and analyze—to practice history at its best, right in the classroom.’’ - Piotr Gorecki, University of California, Riverside

Author Biography

Patrick J. Geary, Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author and editor of numerous books on medieval history.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Late Antiquity
Theodosian Code	p. 1
Augustine of Hippo On Christian Doctrine	p. 28
City of God	p. 46
St. Perpetua The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas	p. 58
The Barbarian World
Tacitus Germania	p. 65
Jordanes History of the Goths	p. 78
Hildebrandslied	p. 111
The Early Franks
The Tomb of Childeric, Father of Clovis	p. 113
Salic Law	p. 122
Bishops Remigius of Reims and Avitus of Vienne Letters to Clovis	p. 129
Gregory of Tours History of the Franks	p. 131
Life of Saint Balthild	p. 153
Early Italy
Saint Benedict Rule for Monasteries	p. 159
Gregory the Great Dialogues	p. 189
Anglo-Saxon England
Laws of Ethelbert	p. 209
Bede History of the English Church and People	p. 212
King Alfred Dooms	p. 223
The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum (886-890)	p. 228
Letter to King Edward the Elder	p. 228
Asser's Life of King Alfred	p. 230
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle	p. 239
Theodore Penitential	p. 247
The Carolingians
Einhard Life of Charles the Great	p. 266
Selected Capitularies	p. 280
Dhuoda's Handbook for her Son (Liber Manualis)	p. 302
Monasticism
Cluniac Charters The Foundation Charter of Cluny	p. 315
Charters of the Grossi Family	p. 317
Miracles of Saint Foy	p. 322
Anselm Proslogion	p. 329
Bernard of Clairvaux Sermons on the Song of Songs	p. 342
Guibert of Nogent Memoirs	p. 351
Lords and Vassals
Fulbert of Chartres Letter to William of Aquitaine	p. 376
Hugh of Lusignan Agreement between Lord and Vassal	p. 377
Galbert of Bruges the Murder of Charles the Good	p. 382
The First Crusade
Four Accounts Fulcher of Chartres	p. 394
Solomon Bar Simson	p. 406
Ibn Al-Athir	p. 413
Anna Comnena	p. 418
The Fourth Lateran Council
Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215	p. 430
The Mendicants
The Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi	p. 456
Clare of Assisi Testament	p. 460
Canonization Process of St. Dominic	p. 464
Thomas of Cantimpré Defense of the Mendicants	p. 475
St. Thomas Aquinas On the Proofs of God's Existence	p. 478
Church and Society in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
Jacques Fournier Inquisition Records	p. 482
Marsilius of Padua Discourses	p. 502
The Book of Margery Kempe	p. 523
The Empire
Liudprand of Cremona A Chronicle of Otto's Reign	p. 554
Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV the Investiture Controversy	p. 562
The Concordat of Worms	p. 587
Otto of Freising The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa	p. 588
The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel)	p. 598
Emperor Charles IV Autobiography	p. 603
The Golden Bull	p. 618
Poland
The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles	p. 639
The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg	p. 647
France
Joinville Life of St. Louis	p. 649
Enquêts of King Louis	p. 667
Jean Froissart Chronicles	p. 677
The Trial of Joan of Arc	p. 701
England
Domesday Book	p. 716
Richard fitz Nigel Dialogue of the Exchequer	p. 724
Accounts of the Exchequer: An Example	p. 730
Magna Carta	p. 735
The Articles of the Barons, June 15, 1215	p. 735
Magna Carta, 1215	p. 739
Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta null and void, August 24,1215	p. 746
Magna Carta, 1216	p. 747
Royal Courts of England the Huntingdonshire Eyre of 1286	p. 752
A Medieval English Village: Plans of Wharram Percy	p. 756
The Iberian Peninsula
Fuero de Cuenca	p. 759
Las Siete Partidas	p. 761
Italy
Giovanni Scriba Notary Book	p. 770
Dialogues of Catherine of Siena	p. 772
Florence: Catasto of 1427	p. 781
Gregorio Dati Diary	p. 793
Glossary	p. 808
Sources	p. 811
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