The Portable Medieval Reader

by Various (Author); Ross, James Bruce (Editor); McLaughlin, Mary Martin (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780140150469
• ISBN10: 0140150463
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1977-05-01
• Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)

Summary

Sampling from 1050 to 1500, this anthology contains writings by more than a hundred writers including Chaucer, Dante, Petrach, Thomas Aquinas, Peter Abelard, Leonardo, Friar Bacon, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, John of Salisbury, William Langland and Nicholas of Cusa.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(29)
Chronological Table	30	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	38	(9)
PART ONE: THE BODY SOCIAL
The Body Social	47	(2)
John of Salisbury
The Orders of Men
The Clergy: The Prayers and Thinkers
The Monastic Ideal	49	(8)
Peter Damiani
The Cistercian Order	57	(2)
William of Malmesbury
How the Friars Came to Germany	59	(5)
Jordan of Giano
A Preacher and His Miracles	64	(3)
Salimbene
Monastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century	67	(4)
John Busch
Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury	71	(2)
Giraldus Cambrensis
A Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham	73	(2)
John Capgrave
An Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy	75	(3)
Ordericus Vitalis
The Habits of Priests in Normandy	78	(4)
Odo of Rigaud
Statutes for a College	82	(3)
Robert de Sorbonne
How the Student Should Behave	85	(5)
John of Garland
The Nobility: The Fighters
The Function of Knighthood	90	(1)
John of Salisbury
The Chivalric Ideal	91	(1)
Diaz de Gamez
The Murder of a Feudal Lord	92	(10)
Galbert of Bruges
The Battle of Poitiers	102	(10)
Geoffrey le Baker
A Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century	112	(3)
Jorg von Ehingen
The Rules of Courtly Love	115	(2)
Andreas Capellanus
A Noble Household	117	(3)
Jean Froissart
Offices in a Noble Household	120	(2)
John Russell
Private Lives of the English Gentry	122	(7)
Stonor Letters
The Peasants and Burghers: The Workers
The Feet of the Common-Wealth	129	(1)
John of Salisbury
The Duties of Manorial Officers	130	(6)
Seneschaucie
The Peasant's Life	136	(3)
William Langland
The Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale	139	(5)
Reginald of Durham
Advice to a Norwegian Merchant
The King's Mirror	144	(5)
The Successful Surgeon	149	(5)
John Arderne
The Good Wife
The Goodman of Paris	154	(7)
Life in London
Memorials of London	161	(6)
Fashions in Italy	167	(3)
Sacchetti
The Jews
Papal Protection of the Jews	170	(4)
Pope Gregory X
The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry	174	(3)
Jacob von Konigshofen
Conflict, Protest, and Catastrophe
A Revolt of the Commons in London	177	(2)
Roger of Wendover
The Peasant's Revolt in England	179	(15)
Anonimalle Chronicle
My Brother Man	194	(1)
Walther von der Vogelweide
Piers Plowman's Protest	195	(7)
William Langland
The Waldensian Heretics	202	(14)
Bernard Gui
The Impact of the Black Death	216	(6)
Henry Knighton
Paris during the Hundred Years' War	222	(11)
Journal d'un bourgeois
PART TWO: THE CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH
The Spiritual Authority
The Superiority of the Spiritual Authority	233	(3)
Pope Boniface VIII
The Election and Coronation of a Pope	236	(3)
Adam of Usk
The Creation of Cardinals	239	(2)
Pope Pius II
The Fourth Lateran Council	241	(3)
Roger of Wendover
A French Provincial Synod	244	(4)
Odo of Rigaud
Letter to King Henry II	248	(3)
Thomas Becket
The Temporal Authorities
The Nature of a True Prince	251	(8)
John of Salisbury
The Independence of the Temporal Authority	259	(3)
Frederick Barbarossa
The Election and Coronation of an Emperor	262	(3)
Otto of Freising
A German Poet's Attack on the Papacy	265	(1)
Walther von der Vogelweide
The Seven Electors	266	(1)
Adam of Usk
A Picture of a Good Feudal King: Louis VI of France	267	(6)
Suger
The Coronation of Richard Lion Heart	273	(3)
Roger of Wendover
The Deposition and Death of Richard II	276	(5)
Adam of Usk
An Imperialist View of the Lombard Communes	281	(2)
Otto of Freising
City Politics in Siena	283	(3)
Pope Pius II
A Petty Italian Tyrant	286	(2)
Anonymous
A Picture of a Tyrant	288	(2)
Pope Pius II
Renewal and Reform
The Recovery of the Holy Land: A Plan of Action and a Scheme for Reform	290	(13)
Pierre du Bois
On the Supremacy of General Councils in Church and Empire	303	(8)
Nicholas of Cusa
A Plea for the Reform of Germany
Die Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds	311	(8)
A Call for Common Action against the Turks	319	(6)
Pope Pius II
PART THREE: THE HOUSE OF FAME
Bohemond the Crusader	325	(1)
Anna Comnena
On the Fame of Abelard	326	(5)
Heloise
Heloise and Abelard: The Later Years	331	(7)
Peter the Venerable
Arnold of Brescia, a Twelfth-Century Revolutionary	338	(3)
John of Salisbury
Arnold of Brescia	341	(3)
Anonymous
His Own Deeds	344	(12)
Giraldus Cambrensis
Henry II, King of England	356	(6)
Giraldus Cambrensis
The Emperor Frederick II	362	(7)
Salimbene
A Saintly King	369	(9)
Jean de Joinville
Pope Boniface VIII	378	(6)
Giovanni Villani
Dante Alighieri	384	(2)
Giovanni Villani
Inscription for a Portrait of Dante	386	(1)
Giovanni Boccaccio
Giotto	387	(3)
Lorenzo Ghiberti
Letter to Posterity	390	(9)
Francesco Petrarca
Charles the Bold and the Fall of the House of Burgundy	399	(8)
Philippe de Commines
PART FOUR: THE WORLD PICTURE
The Frontiers of Europe: Conquest and Assimilation of Peoples
Anglo-Saxons and Normans	407	(3)
William of Malmesbury
The Character and Customs of the Irish	410	(5)
Giraldus Cambrensis
The Conversion and Subjugation of the Slavs	415	(6)
Helmold
The German Push to the East	421	(9)
Ordensritter und Kirchenfursten
The Near East: Pilgrimage and Crusade
The Great German Pilgrimage	430	(7)
Lambert of Hersfeld
The First Contact of Crusaders and Turks	437	(7)
Histoire anonyme de la premiere croisade
A Greek View of the Crusaders	444	(3)
Anna Comnena
An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders	447	(5)
Usamah
A Crusader's Criticism of the Greeks	452	(3)
Odo of Deuil
Why the Crusaders Failed	455	(3)
William of Tyre
The Expedition of the Grand Company to Constantinople	458	(7)
Ramon Muntaner
The Far East: Missionaries and Merchants
The Tartar Menace to Europe	465	(1)
Matthew Paris
A Mission to the Great Khan	466	(10)
William of Rubruck
The Labours of a Friar in Cathay	476	(5)
John of Monte Corvino
A Last Mission to Cathay	481	(6)
John of Marignolli
Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay	487	(4)
Francesco Pegolotti
Henry the Navigator's Search for New Lands	491	(6)
Gomes de Azurara
PART FIVE: THE NOBLE CASTLE
The Makers
Poets and Story-Tellers
The Vision of Viands	497	(3)
Aniar MacConglinne
Hymn for Good Friday	500	(1)
Peter Abelard
David's Lament for Jonathan	501	(1)
Peter Abelard
Let's Away with Study	502	(1)
Anonymous
When Diana Lighteth	503	(2)
Anonymous
To Bel Vezer on Her Dismissal of the Poet	505	(1)
Bernart de Ventadorn
Dawn Song	506	(1)
Anonymous
The Pretty Fruits of Love	507	(2)
Anonymous
This Song Wants Drink	509	(1)
Anonymous
The Love of Tristan and Iseult	510	(2)
Gottfried von Strassburg
Of the Churl Who Won Paradise	512	(4)
Anonymous
Gather Ye Rosebuds
Romance of the Rose	516	(1)
The Canticle of the Sun	517	(2)
Saint Francis of Assisi
Of the Gentle Heart	519	(2)
Guido Guinicelli
My Lady Looks So Gentle	521	(1)
Dante Alighieri
Beauty in Women	522	(1)
Guido Cavalcanti
Of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Sinner	523	(1)
Jacopone da Todi
Merciless Beauty: A Triple Roundel	524	(2)
Geoffrey Chaucer
Roundel	526	(1)
Christine de Pisan
Miracles of the Virgin	527	(3)
Johannes Herolt
Painters and Builders
Of Pictures and Images	530	(4)
William Durandus
How to Represent the Arts and Sciences	534	(4)
Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte
The Identity of Individual Artists	538	(2)
Recueil de textes
Abbots as Builders	540	(6)
Gesta abbatum sancti Albani
A Painter on His Craft	546	(4)
Cennino Cennini
Nature as the Supreme Authority	550	(2)
Leonardo da Vinci
Musicians
Celtic Music and Music in General	552	(4)
Giraldus Cambrensis
Two Musical Friars	556	(4)
Salimbene
An Orchestra of the Fourteenth Century	560	(2)
Guillaume de Machaut
The Mirror, of History
A Philosophy of History	562	(6)
Otto of Freising
The Problems and Motives of the Historian	568	(5)
William of Tyre
The Seven Liberal Arts
On Study and Teaching	573	(17)
Hugh of St. Victor
The Battle of the Arts	590	(4)
Henri d'Andeli
Rules of the University of Paris
Chartulary of the University of Paris	594	(2)
Fernando of Cordova, the Boy Wonder	596	(2)
Launoy
The Problems of a Christian Humanist	598	(4)
John of Salisbury
The Ancients and the Moderns	602	(2)
Walter Map
A Plea for the Study of Languages	604	(5)
Roger Bacon
Statute of the Council of Vienne on Languages	609	(1)
Chartulary
An English Humanist	610	(3)
Richard de Bury
In Defence of Liberal Studies	613	(5)
Coluccio Salutati
In Praise of Greek	618	(2)
Leonardo Bruni
The Mirror of Nature
Questions on Nature	620	(6)
Adelard of Bath
Experimental Science	626	(9)
Roger Bacon
The Case of a Woman Doctor in Paris
Chartulary of the University of Paris	635	(5)
The History of Surgery	640	(10)
Gui de Chauliac
The Mirror of Wisdom
The Place of Logic in Philosophy	650	(4)
Peter Abelard
The End of Man	654	(13)
Saint Thomas Aquinas
On Learned Ignorance	667	(9)
Nicholas of Cusa
The Vision of God
The Soul Complains to God	676	(3)
Jacopone da Todi
A Crying Mystic	679	(3)
Margery Kempe
The Vision of God	682	(7)
Nicholas of Cusa
Acknowledgments	689