The records of medieval Europe / Edited with an introd. by Carolly Erickson.

"This new collection of medieval documents spanning the years 300-1350 emphasizes the breadth and richness of the lives of medieval men. As the author is careful to point out, many familiar documents will be sought here in vain. Those chosen, far from being atypical or obscure, illustrate clear...

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Other Authors: Erickson, Carolly, 1943- (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Books, 1971.
Edition:[First edition].
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Table of Contents:
  • A Framework for Interpretation
  • Part 1. Christianity and the Early Middle Ages
  • The Channels of Public Life
  • Government, Commerce and Communications
  • Dio Cassius, Annals of Rome
  • Zosimus, The History
  • Imperial Weapons Factories in Fifth-Century Gaul
  • The Theodosian Code
  • Frankish Rule: The Chronicle of Fredegar
  • A Merovingian Fair
  • Charlemagne
  • A Capitulary on Military Service in the Host
  • A Capitulary on the Church
  • Carolingian Merchants
  • The Social Order
  • The Theodosian Code
  • The Burgundian Code
  • The Repositories of Thought
  • The Ascetic Life
  • The Dead Sea Scriptures
  • The Manual of Discipline
  • The New Testament: The Sermon on the Mount
  • Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
  • The Mystical Theology
  • The Celestial Hierarchies
  • Celtic Monasticism: St. Columban, The Communal Rule and Penitential
  • The Secular Clergy
  • Clement of Alexandria, Exhortation to the Greeks
  • Augustine, On Continence
  • Augustine, On the City of God, Against the Pagans
  • Vincent of Lerins, Against Heresy
  • A Merovingian Saint's Life: The Life of Bonitus, Bishop of Auvergne
  • The Letters of St. Columban
  • The Classical Tradition
  • Plotinus, The Enneads
  • The Veneration of Rome: Rutilius Namatianus
  • The Homecoming
  • Literature and the Popular Mind
  • The Christian Apocalypse: The Revelation of St. John the Divine
  • The Legend of Simon Magus
  • Germanic Christianity: The Heliand
  • Part 2
  • The Central Middle Ages
  • The Channels of Public Life
  • Government, Commerce and Communications
  • Regulations of the Royal Court at Pavia
  • The Decline and Fall of the Carolingian Empire: Nithard, History of the Sons of Louis the Pious
  • The Deeds of Conrad II
  • The Investiture Controversy: Letters of Henry IV to Pope Gregory
  • The Social Order
  • The Making of a Town: Ninth-Century Bruges
  • Manorial Records of the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries
  • The Blood Feud: Raoul Glaber, Histories
  • Feudal Obligations
  • The Repositories of Thought
  • The Monastery
  • The Letters of Lupus of Ferrieres
  • Eadmer, The Life of Saint Anselm
  • Defense of the Cluniac Ideal: The Letters of Peter the Venerable
  • The Secular Clergy
  • The Schism Between East and West: The Letter of Leo, Archbishop of Bulgaria, Sent to a Certain Roman Bishop
  • Wido of Osnabruck, Book of the Controversy Between Hildebrand and Henry
  • The Crusading Ideal: Bernard of Clairvaux, In Praise of the New Militia of the Temple
  • Literature
  • Dicuil, Book of the Measurement of the Earth
  • Bishop Patrick, On the Honor of the Human Condition
  • The Matter of Britain: Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain
  • The Universities
  • Abelard, Ethics, or Know Thyself
  • Gratian, The Concord of Discordant Canons
  • The Popular Mind
  • The Dispute of the Church and the Synagogue
  • A Traveler's Guide to Rome: William of Malmesbury, Chronicle of the Kings of England
  • A Western View of Islam: Peter the Venerable
  • Letter to Bernard
  • Part 3
  • The High Middle Ages
  • The Channels of Public Life
  • Government, Commerce and Communications
  • Guild Privileges: A Charter of Henry II to the Tanners of Rouen
  • A Thirteenth-Century Legal Proceeding
  • The Development of the French Parlement
  • The Church-State Dispute: The Chronicle of Bury St. Edmunds
  • Western Imperialism: Pierre Dubois, On the Retaking of the Holy Land
  • A Contract of Exchange
  • Francisco di Balduccio Pegolotti, The Practice of Commerce
  • Guild Regulations
  • Judgment Against a Draper
  • The Regulation of Apprenticeship
  • Navigation Rights of the Commune of Rouen
  • The Social Order
  • The Slave Trade
  • A Medieval University on Strike: Paris in the Thirteenth Century
  • Henry III Invites the Scholars of Paris to England
  • A Thirteenth-Century Ritual of Knighthood
  • A Marriage Case
  • Giovanni Villani, Chronicle of Florence
  • Change in the Feudal Order
  • A Fief-Rente Charter
  • A Thirteenth-Century Money Fief
  • Peasant Revolts: Froissart, Chronicles
  • The Repositories of Thought
  • The Monastic and Mendicant Orders
  • The Franciscan Vision: Ubertino da Casale, The Tree of Life of Christ Crucified
  • William of Ockham, Whether Princes May Tax the Goods of the Church
  • The Controversy Between the Philosophers and Theologians: John Duns Scotus, Prologue to the Ordinatio
  • The Secular Clergy
  • Bernard Gui, The Inquisitor's Handbook
  • Marsilius of Padua, The Defender of Peace
  • Mystical Religion: John Tauler, A Sermon
  • The Book of the Poor in Spirit by a Friend of God
  • Literature
  • Minnesinger Poetry: The Songs of Prince Wizlaw of Rugen
  • Liturgical Drama: The Three Marys
  • The Romance of the Rose
  • The Dance of Death
  • The Universities
  • The Law School of Bologna: Frederick Barbarossa's Authentic "Habita"
  • Academic Heresy: Giles of Rome, On the Errors of the Philosophers
  • The Reception of Aristotle: Roger Bacon, Compendium of the Study of Theology
  • Roger Bacon, Opus Maius
  • Thomas Bradwardine, Treatise on Proportions
  • Nicolaus of Autrecourt, First Letter to Bernard of Arezzo
  • The Popular Mind
  • Caesarius of Heisterbach, The Dialogue on Miracles
  • A Crusader's Letter: Ricoldo de Monte-Croce, Letter to Blessed Queen Mary
  • Henry of Lancaster, The Book of Holy Medicines.