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
Literature:
Alcuin of York: The Debate between Pippin and Alcuin
Walafrid Stabo, Hortulus (My Little Garden): The Gourd
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
Illustrations: