Readings in medieval history
By: edited by Patrick J. Geary
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781442601208; 9781442601161; 9781442601178
Subjects: Sources; Middeleeuwen; Moyen Age; Middle Ages
Description: ""Instructors of medieval history are fortunate to have at their disposal a new edition of the best selection of medieval primary sources 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" ""Geary's careful and wise selection of texts in his reader provides the best balance between range and depth necessary for a successful source book. Students are introduced to the richness of medieval evidence and can engage with the personalities who produced it in a way that encourages further study and reflection on the Middle Ages."--Nicholas Everett, University of Toronto" ""Provides an excellent selection of complete texts or substantial extracts from key primary sources, helpfully grouped thematically and illustrating many current issues in modern historical study ... an invaluable introduction."--Rosamond McKitterick, Newnham College, University of Cambridge" ""The best collection of medieval documents in print."--A.J. Andrea, University of Vermont" "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Early Middle Ages; title: Late Antiquity:; title: 1. Theodosian Code; title: 2. Augustine of Hippo On Christian Doctrine City of God; title: 3. St. Perpetua The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas; title: The Barbarian World:; title: 4. Tacitus Germania; title: 5. Jordanes History of the Goths; title: 6. Hildebrandslied; title: The Early Franks:; title: 7. The Tomb of Childeric, Father of Clovis; title: 8. Salic Law; title: 9. Bishops Remigius of Reims and Avitus of Vienne Letters to Clovis; title: 10. Gregory of Tours History of the Franks; title: 11. Life of Saint Balthild; title: Early Italy:; title: 12. Saint Benedict Rule for Monasteries; title: 13. Gregory the Great Dialogues; title: Anglo-Saxon England:; title: 14. Laws of Ethelbert; title: 15. Bede History of the English Church and People; title: 16. King Alfred Dooms ; The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum (866-890) ; Letter to King Edward the Elder ; Asser's Life of King Alfred ; Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; title: 17. Theodore Penitential; title: The Carolingians:; title: 18. Einhard Life of Charles the Great; title: 19. Selected Capitularies; title: 20. Dhuoda's Handbook for her Son (Liber Manualis); title: The Tenth Century:; title: 21. Liudprand of Cremona A Chronicle of Otto's Reign; title: 22. Cluniac Charters The Foundation Charter Of Cluny ; Charters of the Grossi Family.; title: The Later Middle Ages; title: Monasticism:; title: 22. Cluniac Charters The Foundation Charter of Cluny ; Charters of the Grossi Family; title: 23. Miracles of Saint Foy; title: 24. Anselm Proslogion; title: 25. Bernard of Clairvaux Sermons on the Song of Songs; title: 26. Guibert of Nogent Memoirs; title: Lords and Vassals:; title: 27. Fulbert of Chartres Letter to William of Aquitaine; title: 28. Hugh of Lusignan Agreement between Lord and Vassal; title: 29. Galbert of Bruges The Murder of Charles the Good; title: The First Crusade:; title: 30. Four Accounts ; Fulcher of Chartres ; Solomon Bar Simson ; Ibn Al-Athir ; Anna Comnena; title: The Fourth Lateran Council:; title: 31. Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council; title: The Mendicants:; title: 32. The Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi 33. Claire of Assisi Testament; title: 34. Canonization Process of St. Dominic; title: 35. Thomas of Cantimpre Defense of the Mendicants; title: 36. St. Thomas Aquinas On the Proofs of God's Existence; title: Church and Society in the Fourteenth and FIfteenth Centuries:; title: 37. Jacques Fournier Inquisition Records; title: 38. Marsilius of Padua Discourses; title: 39. The Book of Margery Kempe; title: The Empire:; title: 40. Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV The Investiture Controversy; title: 41. The Concordat of Worms; title: 42. Otto of Freising The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa; title: 43. The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel); title: 44. Emperor Charles IV Autobiography ; The Golden Bull; title: Poland:; title: 45. The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles; title: 46. The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg; title: France:; title: 47. Joinville Life of St. Louis; title: 48. Enquets of King Louis; title: 49. Jean Froissart Chronicles; title: 50. The Trial of Joan of Arc; title: England:; title: 51. Domesday Book; title: 52. Richard fitz Nigel Dialogue of the Exchequer; title: 53. Accounts of the Exchequer: An Example; title: 54. Magna Carta ; The Articles of the Barons, 15 June 1215 ; Magna Carta, 1215 ; Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta null and void, August 24, 1215 ; Magna Carta, 1216; title: 55. Royal Courts of England The Huntingdonshire Eyre of 1286; title: 56. A Medieval English Village: Plans of Wharram Percy; title: The Iberian Peninsula:; title: 57. Fuero de Cuenca; title: 58. Las Siete Partidas; title: Italy:; title: 59. Giovanni Scriba Notary Book; title: 60. Dialogues of Catherine of Siena; title: 61. Florence: Catasto of 1427; title: 62. Gregorio Dati Diary.