6. The Middle Ages
Adler, Elkan Nathan, ed. Jewish Travellers in the Middle Ages: 19 Firsthand Accounts. New York: Dover, 1987. (Documents cover period, 801-1755. Writers include scholars, merchants, pilgrims, and ambassadors, among others. Information on life in Europe, the Near East, and Africa. ) NRG: G 277 .O88213 198
Amt, Emilie, ed. Women’s Lives in Medieval Europe: A Sourcebook. New York: Routledge, 1993. RVS HQ 1143 .W65 1993
Andre, le Chapelain. The Art of Courtly Love. (Milestones of Thought in the History of Ideas.) New York: F. Ungar Publ. Co., 1957. RGC: HQ 461 .A58 1957
Bede. A History of the English Church and People. Translated by Leo Sherley-Price. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993. (Reprint of 1968 edition. Author, often called “The Venerable Bede,” was an eighth-century historian and Benedictine monk. This chronicle provides a picture of Saxon England and Celtic Britain. Mostly deals with seventh and eighth centuries. Emphasis on religious matters. Technically a secondary source, but is one of the few works about its subject and period, the so-called “Dark Ages” in England.) RVS: BR 746 .B5 1993
Beowulf. (Varous editions. See ACC LRS Catalog for complete citations. This poem, the oldest surviving work of English literature [composed in the Anglo-Saxon or Old English of the Early Middle Ages], reveals values, beliefs, behavior, and other aspects of the culture of the Anglo-Saxons and other northern European Germanic peoples of the time.) CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS. (There is also a videorecording, Beowulf, which introduces the viewer to the origins of the English language by examining Beowulf. Covers old English lyrics and the oral epic tradition. The videorecording is at NRG, in the Audiovisual Area. The call number is PR 1581 .B46 1980z. C.1 VH.)
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. (Written in mid fourteenth-century Italy. One historian has called it “both a stinging social commentary [especially in its exposé of sexual and economic misconduct] and a sympathetic look at human behavior.”) Various editions. (See ACC LRS Catalog for details.) NRG, RGC, RVS
Brentano, Robert, ed. The Early Middle Ages, 500-1000. (Sources in Western Civilization.) New York: Free Press, 1964. RVS: D 113.5 .B7 1964
Cantor, Norman F., ed. The Medieval Reader: First-Hand Accounts of the Middle Ages Including Letters, Essays, State and Church Documents, Poetry and Ballads. New York: HarperCollins, 1994. NRG, RGC, RVS: D 113 .M42 1994
Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. (This long poem is a primary source for attitudes, beliefs, behaviors, etc. of persons of various social classes, occupations, in late medieval England.) (Various editions, some complete, others selections. Some are in the original Middle English with modern English translations. (See ACC LRS Catalog for details.) CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS.
Columbia College. Introduction to Contemporary Civilization in the West. 3d ed. Vol. 1. New York: Columbia University Press, 1960. (Contents: Vol. I: From the medieval heritage through the Enlightenment.) RVS: CB 5 .C575 1960
Coulton, G. G., comp. and trans. Life in the Middle Ages. Combined volume, consisting of Vol. 3, Men and Manners, and Vol. 4, Monks, Friars, and Nuns. Cambridge: The University Press, 1967. NRG, RGC: D 127 .C6 1967. (Note: UT’s Undergraduate Library has all four volumes in one combined volume. Vol. 1 is Religion, Folklore and Superstition. Vol. 2 is Chronicles, Science, and Art. The Undergraduate Library call number is 940.1 C832L 1954)
Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy. (According to one historian, “In the Divine Comedy, Dante synthesized the various elements of the medieval outlook and summed up, with immense feeling, the medieval understanding of the purpose of life.) Various editions. (See ACC LRS Catalog for details.) CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC.
Davis, Norman, ed. The Paston Letters. (The World’s Classics.) New York: Oxford University Press, 1983. (Paston family of Norfolk County, England, “left behind them, in the earliest great collection of family letters in English, an incomparable picture of life in fifteenth-century England.” Includes information on family life, business matters, leisure pursuits, education. This is a selection in modern spelling.) RVS: DA 240 .P32 1983
Davis-Weyer, Caecilia. Early Medieval Art, 300-1150: Sources and Documents. Toronto: Published by University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America, 1986. RVS: N 5975 .D3 1986
Dmytryshyn, Basil, ed. Medieval Russia: A Source Book, 850-1700. 3rd ed. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace Javanovich, 1991. NRG: DK 3 .D56 1991
Dockray, Keith. Henry VI, Margaret of Anjou and the Wars of the Roses: A Source Book. Stroud, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2000. “Combining a framework of interpretation and a rich selection of passages from contemporary and near-contemporary sources, ” the compilation show why the rule of England;s Henry VI led to the Wars of the Roses and the end of the House of Lancaster.) RGC: DA 257 .D635 2000
Downs, Norton, ed. Basic Documents in Medieval History. (Anvil Series.) Malabar, Fla.: Krieger, 1992 (c. 1959). RVS: D 113.5 .B37 1992
Dutton, Paul Edward, ed. Carolingian Civilization: A Reader. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview, 1993. NRG: DC 70 .A1 C37 1993
Einhard. Life of Charlemagne. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960. NRG, PIN, RVS: DC 73.32 .T813 1960
Einhard and Notker the Stammerer. Two Lives of Charlesmagne. Translated by Lewis Thorpe,London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1969b. (Consists of Einhard’s Life of Charlemagne and Notker the Staammer’s Charlemagne. Einhard was advisor and personal friend to Charlemagne. Notker the Stammerer was a monk who wrote his book between 884 and 887 for Charlemagne’s great-grandson, Emperor Charles the Fat.) RGC: DC 73.32 .T45 1969b
Ericson, Donald E. Abelard and Heloise: Their Lives, Their Love, Their Letters. Miami, Fla.: Bennett-Edwards, 1990.(Only the letters are primary sources.) RVS: B 765 .A24 E75 1990
Fairweather, Eugene Rathbone, ed. A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham. Ichthus Edition. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1981. (Reprint of 1956 ed.) RVS BX 880 .S37 1981
Francis, of Assisi, Saint. Francis and Clare: The Complete Works. Edited by Regis J. Armstrong and Ignatius C. Brady. (The Classics of Western Spirituality.) New York: Paulist Press, 1982. NRG: BX 890 .F665 1982
Froissart, Jean. Chronicles. New York: Modern Library, 1968. (Subjects covered include the Hundred Years’ War and other aspects of the history of France and of England during the fourteenth century.) NRG: D 113 .F77 1968.
Gregory of Tours. The History of the Franks. Translated by Lewis Thorpe. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1974. (Author was Bishop of Tours [in Gaul] in the sixth century. First mentiion of the Franks is on p. 120. Books IV-X deal with Gregory’s own time in Frankish Gaul in the sixth century.) RGC: DC 64 .G8 P46 1974
Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy. Self and Society in Medieval France: The Memoirs of Abbot Guibert of Nogent. Edited with an introduction and notes by John F. Benton. Toronto, Ont.: University of Toronto Press, 1984. (Author lived 1053 to about 1124 in northern France. Useful material on monastic life, medieval religious beliefs and attitudes. Use with caution, especially with respect to factual accuracy. Read introduction, especially pp. 31-33.) NRG: DC 83 .G813 19840
Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. The Plantagenet Chronicles. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1986. RGC: DA 225 .P53 1986
Hallam, Elizabeth, ed. The Wars of the Roses. New York: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988. RVS: DA 250 .W37 1988
Herlihy, David, ed. The History of Feudalism. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities, 1979. RVS: JC 111 .H45 1979
Hillgarth, J. N., ed. Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe. Rev, ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. RVS: BR 200 .C47 1986
Hopper, Vincent F., and Gerald B. Lahey, eds. Medieval Mystery Plays. (Theatre Classics for the Modern Reader.) Woodbury, N.Y.: Barrons Educational Series, Inc., 1962. (Texts of seven dramatic works. Also includes morality plays and interludes.) RGC: PR 1260 .H6 1962
Kirshner, Julius, and Karl F. Morrison, eds. Medieval Europe (Readings in Western Civilization, No. 4.) Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. RVS: CB 351 .M43 1986
Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters, eds. Witchcraft in Europe 400-1700: A Documentary History. (Sources in Medieval History.) 2nd ed. Revised by Edward Peters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. CYP, RVS: BF 1566 .W739 2001
Kors, Alan Charles, and Edward Peters, eds. Witchcraft in Europe, 1100-1700: A Documentary History. (Sources in Medieval History.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1972. RVS: BF 1566 .K67 1972
Lopez, Robert S., and Irving W. Raymond, translators. Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents. (Records of Western Civilization.) New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. RVS: HF 395 .M43 1990
Lyon, Bryce Dale, ed. The High Middle Ages: 1000-1300. (Sources in Western Civilization.) New York: Free Press, 1964. RVS: D 113 .L9 1964
McKeon, Richard Peter, ed. Selections from Medieval Philosophers. 2 vols. (The Modern Student’s Library.) New York: Scribner’s sons, 1929. RGC: B 720 .M3 75-290. (There is another set at RGC with the publication date of 1957 and a set at NRG with the publication date of 1957. Call number is B 720 .M3 1957.)
McNamara, Jo Ann, and John E. Halborg, eds. Sainted Women of the Dark Ages. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1992. (Biographies of sixteen sixth- and seventh-century women who lived in what had been the Roman province of Gaul. Most were written by contemporaries. They belong to that literary genre called hagiography, i.e., church-sponsored writings about the lives of Christian saints. The subjects lived at the time that the Germanic Franks were conquering the Gallo-Roman people and in the years of Frankish consolidation that followed.) RVS: BX 4656 .S28 1992
Menagier de Paris. A Medieval Home Companion: Housekeeping in the Fourteenth Century. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. (Author, an elderly Parisian, wrote book of moral and domestic instruction for his wife in 1394. Covers everything from how to manage servants, plant a garden, remove stains, plan menus, and cure toothaches.) RGC: TX 17 .M3913 1991
Pernoud, Régine, and Marie Véronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story. Tramslated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998. (Technically, a secondary source. May be counted as a primary source as there are many documents [most excerpts] within the narrative. Also, few translated primary source documents are available on the subject. Focus is on subject’s imprisonment and trial.) NRG, RVS: DC 103 .P37813 1998
Peters, Edward, ed. Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229: Sources in Translation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971. NRG: D 151 .P47 1971
Peters, Edward, ed.The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other Source Materials. (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995 (copyright 1971). (Includes many sources about the Crusades other than Fulcher’s Chronicle.) NRG: D 161 .P47 1971
Peters, Edward, ed.The First Crusade: The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other Source Materials. 2nd ed. (Middle Ages Series.) Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. (Includes many sources about the Crusades other than Fulcher’s Chronicle. This edition retains most of the texts from the first edition. New material comes chiefly from texts originally in Hebrew and Arabic. The material in Section VI in the first edition, on the evolution of crusading privileges, has been omitted. Replaced by a new Section X, consisting of texts having to do with the ways in which ideas relating to war against infidels were represented in three different literary genres.) RGC, RVS: D 161 .P47 1971
Peters, Edward. Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe: Documents in Translation. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. (Scope: second through fifteenth centuries. Authors include Tertullian, St. Augustine, Alcuin, Peter Abelard, St. Bernard, St. Thomas Aquinas, Innocent III, Gregory IX, Petrarch, Wyclif, John Hus.) NRG: BT 1319 .P47 1980
Petry, Ray C., ed. Late Medieval Mysticism. Ichthus Edition. (The Library of Christian Classics.) Westminister Press, 1957. (Collection of sources “marking the culmination of mystical thought within medieval Christianity.” Authors: Bernard of Clairvaux, the Victorines [Hugh, Richard, Adam], Francis of Assisi, Bonaventure, Ramon Lull, John Eckhart, Richard Rolle, Henry Suso, Catherine of Siena, Jan Van Ruysbroeck, Tauler, Nicholas of Cusa, and Catherine of Genoa.) RVS: BV 5072 .P4 1957
Polo, Marco. The Travels of Marco Polo. Translated and with an introduction by Ronald Latham. (Penguin Classics.) London: Penguin Books, 1958. RVS: G 370 .P813 1982
Ross, James Bruce, ed. The Portable Medieval Reader. New York: Viking Press, 1949. RGC: PN 667 .R6 1949
Shaw, Margaret, transl. Chronicles of the Crusades. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1963. (Contents: Villehardouin, The Conquest of Constantinople; Joinville, The Life of St. Louis.) RVS: D 151 .S513 1963
Strayer, Joseph Reese. Feudalism. Huntington, N.Y.: R. E. Krieger, 1979. RVS: JC 111 .S7 1979
Swanson, R. N.,.ed. and transl. Catholic England: Faith, Religion and Observance before the Reformation. (Manchester Medieval Sources.) New York: Manchester University Press, 1993. RVS: BR 750 .C38 1993
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. Selected Political Writings, 1225?-1274. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981. NRG: JC 121 .T43 1981
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. Summa Theologica. 2 vols. Chicago: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1955. RGC: BX 1749 .T48 1955 73-363
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint. Treatise on Man. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1962. NRG: BT 700 .T513 1962
Tierney, Brian. The Crisis of Church and State, 1050-1300: With Selected Documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1988. (If you use documents, count as a primary source. If you use the narrative section only, count as a secondary source.) RVS: BR 270 .T53 1988
Tierney, Brian, comp. The Middle Ages. Vol. 1: Sources of Medieval History. 5th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992- . RVS: D 113 .M49 1992 V.1
Wakefield, Walter L., and Austin P. Evans, eds. Heresies of the High Middle Ages. (Records of Western Civilization: Sources and Studies.) Reprint. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991. RVS: BT 1315.2 .W32 1991
(See also Document Collections on Specialized Subjects Covering All or Part of the Time Span of this Course.)