I. THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
Religion and piety:
Hypatia of Alexandria (d. AD 415): Three accounts of her life and murder
Venantius Fortunatus (d. 609): Life of St. Radegund (d. 587)
The Qur’an: Extracts from Surahs 4 and 2, on women, Moses, Jesus, and righteousness
The Hadith (extracts): On the 5 pillars of Islam; on trade
Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – the database and the manuscripts
Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – death and burial
Anglo-Saxon Penitentials – paganism, superstition, and cultic practices
Literature:
Alcuin of York: The Debate between Pippin and Alcuin
Walahfrid Strabo, Hortulus (My Little Garden), translated by Raef Payne, with commentary by Wilfrid Blunt (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Hunt Botanical Library, 1966). Includes the full poem in the original Latin, with Payne’s English translation on the facing pages.
Walafrid (or Walahfrid) Stabo, Hortulus (My Little Garden): The Gourd (This extract comes from pp. 35 and 37 of Raef Payne’s English translation, which face the corresponding Latin text on pp. 34 and 36.)
Aelfric’s Colloquy, c. 1000 (complete text, translated by Ann E. Watkins)
War and violence:
Accounts of Viking attacks, 789 and 793
Artifacts:
Coins of Alfred the Great’s successors
II. THE LATER MIDDLE AGES
Maps and images:
Map of English royal castles ordered to be securely held, 13C
Medieval correspondence:
Selected correspondence of Ralph de Neville
Extra correspondence of Ralph de Neville
Selections from Roger of Wendover (d. 1236), Flowers of History:
The instant cult of St. Hugh of Lincoln, 1200
King John’s Loss of Normany, 1203-4
King John taxes the clergy; the arrival of the friars in England; the Interdict, 1207-8
Aristocratic life:
The feudal compact: homages paid by the counts of Champagne, 1143-1226
A poor knight’s household, from Chrétien de Troyes, Eric et Enide, vv. 342-546
John of Toul’s homage to the Count of Champagne, 13th cent.
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, On the Properties of Things: man and wife (c. 1245)
Household Expenses of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, 1313-14
Christine de Pisan, The Treasure of the City of Ladies (1405): A lady’s duties
Edward, Duke of York, The Master of Game, Chaps. 33-34 (c. 1406 x 1413)
An aristocratic education, from John Harding’s Chronicle (c. 1457)
Life on the manor:
Walter of Henley, treatise on husbandry and manorial administration (late 13th cent.)
Seneschaucie (“Stewardship”), treatise on manorial administration (late 13th cent.)
Husbandry, treatise on manorial administration and yields (end 13th-beg. 14th cent.)
Account of the Manor of Cuxham, 1316-17
Pierce the Plowman’s Crede, late 14th century: peasant life
“Ballad of a Tyrannical Husband”: a farmer exchanges chores with his wife (English, 15th cent.)
Hans Brask, Calendarium Oeconomicum: seasonal household menus and monthly tasks (Swedish, 1513-27?)
Hans Brask, Calendarium Oeconomicum: menus for New Year’s week (Swedish, 1513-27?)
Hans Brask, Calendarium Oeconomicum: servants’ rations (Swedish, 1513-27?)
Hans Brask, Calendarium Oeconomicum: description of seasonal menus and tasks (Swedish, 1513-27?)
Thomas Tusser, A hundreth good pointes of husbandrie (English, 1557)
Urban life:
Guillaume de la Villeneuve, Les crieries de Paris (French, 13th cent.)
The Ménagier of Paris: The art of gardening (c. 1393)
Journal of a Bourgeois of Paris, 1405-1449: Death, 1418; Poverty, 1420
The Church:
Plan of a Benedictine Monastery (St. Antimo)
Raoul Glaber, Histories: Church-building and the cult of relics around the year 1000
Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida excommunicates the Patriarch of Constantinople (1054)
Innocent III (r. 1198-1216): On papal power
The development of the Inquisition: Decree of the Council of Toulouse (1229)
Gregory IX sends Domincan friars as Inquisitors to France (1233)
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen: Visitation of monastic and parish clergy, 1248-9
St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-75), Summa theologica: Justification for the Inquisition
King Philip IV (“the Fair”) of France vs. Pope Boniface VIII, 1297-1303
Heresy & Inquisition (early 14th century)
Petrarch’s invectives against Avignon
St. Catherine of Siena beseeches Gregory IX to return to Rome
Jean Petit, “The Complaint of Lady Church,” 1393: Satire on the multiple popes of the Great Schism
Jan Hus: Reply to the synod of Prague, 1413; and last words at the stake, 1415
Technology, health and beauty:
New technologies of later medieval Europe
L’ornement des dames: collection of English beauty recipes, 13th century
Report of the medical faculty of the University of Paris, October 1348
Some medieval English medical recipes, 14th-15th cent.
War and violence:
Gesta francorum (“The Deeds of the Franks”), The siege of Jerusalem, 1099
Two Muslim accounts of the conquest of Jerusalem by the Franks, AH 492 [AD 1099]
Letter from Alexander de Balliol to Edward I concerning spies, 1301
Journal of a Bourgeois of Paris, 1405-1449,: War, 1419; Joan of Arc, 1429-31
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