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The portable medieval reader
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Part one: The body social / John of Salisbury
The orders of men: The clergy: the prayers and thinkers
The monastic ideal / Peter Damiani
The cistercian order / William of Malmesbury
How the friars came to Germany / Jordan of Giano
A preacher and his miracles / Salimbene
Monastic reform in the fifteenth century / John Busch
Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury / Giraldus Cambrensis
A model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham / John Capgrave
An attempt to enforce clerical celibacy / Ordericus Vitalus.
The habits of priests in Normandy / Odo of Rigaud
Statutes for a college / Robert de Sorbonne
How the student should behave / John of Garland
The nobility: The fighters
The function of knighthood / John of Salisbury
The chivalric ideal / Diaz de Gamez
The murder of a feudal lord / Galbert of Bruges
The battle of Poitiers / Geoffrey le Baker
A knight-errant of the fifteenth century / Jorg von Ehingen
The rules of courtly love / Andreas Capellanus
A noble household / Jean Froissart
Offices in a noble household / John Russell
Private lives of the English gentry / Stonor letters.
The peasants and Burghers: the workers
The feet of the commonwealth / John of Salisbury
The duties of manorial officers / Seneschaucie
The peasant's life / William Langland
The making of a merchant: St. Godric of Finchale
Reginald of Durham
Advice to a Norwegian Merchant / The kings's mirror
The successful surgeon / John Arderne
The good wife / The goodman of Paris
Life in London / Memorials of London
Fashions in Italy / Sacchetti
The jews
Papal protection of the jews / Pope Gregory X
The cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry / Jacob von Konigshofen.
Conflict, protest, and catastrohphe: A revolt of the commons in London / Roger of Wendover
The peasants' revolt in England / Anonimalle Chronicle
My brother man / Walther von der Vogelweide
Piers Plowman's protest / William Langland
The Waldensian heretics / Bernard Gui
The impact of the black death / Henry Knighton
Paris during the hundred year's war / Journal d'un bourgeois.
Part two: The Christian commonwealth
The spiritual authority: The superiority of the spriritual authority / Pope Boniface VIII
The election and coronation of a Pope / Adam of Usk
The creation of Cardinals / Pope Pius II
The fourth Lateran Council / Roger of Wendover
A french provincial synod / Odo of Rigaud
Letter to King Henry II / Thomas Becket.
The Temporal authorities: The nature of a true prince / John of Salisbury
The independence of the Temporal authority / Barbarossa
The election and coronation of an emperor
Otto of Freising
A german poet's attack on the papacy / Walther von der Vogelweide
The seven electors / Adam of Usk
A picture of a good feudal king: Louis VI of France / Suger
The coronation of Richard Lion Heart / Roger of Wendover
The deposition and death of Richard II / Adam of Usk
An imperialist view of the Lombard Communes / Otto of Freising
City politics of Siena / Pope Pius II
A petty Italian Tyrant / Anonymous
A picture of a tyrant / Pope Pius II.
Renewal and reform: The recovery of the holy land: a plan of action and a scheme for reform / Pierre du Bois
On the supremacy of general councils in church and empire
Nicholas of Cusa
A plea for the reform of Germany / Die reformation, Kaiser Sigmunds
A call for common action against the Turks / Pope Pius II.
Part three: The house of fame: Bohemond the Crusader / Anna Commena
On the fame of Abelard
Heloise
Heloise and Abelard: The later years / Peter the venerable
Arnold of Brescia, a twelfth-century revolutionary / John of Salisbury
Arnold of Brescia / Anonymous
His own deeds / Giraldus Cambrensis.
Henry II, King of England / Giraldus Cambrenis
The emperor Frederick II / Salimbene
A saintly king / Jean de Joinville
Pope Boniface VIII / Giovanni Villani
Dante Alighieri / Giovanni Villani
Inscription for a portrait of Dante / Giovanni Boccaccio
Giotto / Lorenzo Ghiberti
Letter to Posterity / Francesco Petrarca
Charles the bold and the fall of the House of Burgundy / Philippe de Commines.
Part four: the world picture: The frontiers of Europe: Conquest and assimilation of peoples
Anglo-Saxons and Normans / William of Malmesbury
The character and customs of the Irish / Giraldus Cambrensis
The conversion and subjugation of the Slavs / Helmold
The German push to the east / Ordensritter und Kirchenfursten.
The near east: Pilgrimage and crusade: The great German pilgrimage / Lambert of Hersfeld
The first contact of Crusaders and Turks / Histoire anonyme de la premiere croisade
A Greek view of the crusaders / Anna Comnena
An Arab opinion of the crusaders / Usamah
A crusader's criticism of the Greeks / Odo of Deuil
Why the crusaders failed / William of Tyre
The expedition of the grand company of Constantinople / Ramon Muntaner.
The far east: Missionaries and mechants: The Tartar Menace to Europe / Matthew Paris
A mission to the Great Khan / William of Rubruck
The labours of a friar in Cathay / John of Monte Corvino
Advice to merchants bound for Cathay / Francesco Pegolotti
Henry the navigator's search for new lands / Gomes de Azurara
A last mission to Cathay / John of Marignolli.
Part five: The noble castle: The makers: The vision of Viands / Aniar MacConglinne
Hymn for Good Friday / Peter Abelard
David's lament for Jonathan / Peter Abelard
Let's away with study
When Diana Lighteth
To Bel Vezer on her dismissal of the poet / Bernart de Ventadorn
Dawn song
The pretty fruits of love
This song wants drink
The love of Tristan and Iseult / Gottfried von Strassburg
Of the churl who won paradise
Gather ye rosebuds / Romance of the rose
The canticle of the sun / Saint Francis of Assisi.
Of the gentle heart / Guido Guinicelli
My lady looks so gentle / Dante Alighieri
Beauty in women / Guido Cavalcanti
Of the blessed Virgin Mary, and of the sinner / Jacopone da Todi
Merciless Beauty: a triple roundel / Geoffrey Chaucer
Roundel / Christine de Pisan
Miracles of the Virgin / Johannes Herolt.
Painters and builders: Of pictures and images / William Durandus
How to represent the arts and sciences / Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte
The identity of individual artists / Recueil de textes relatifs a l'hisoire de l'architecture.
Abbots a builders / Gesta abbatum sancti Albani
A painter on his craft / Cennino Cennini
Nature as the supreme authority / Leonardo da Vinci
Musicians: Celtic music and music in general / Giraldus Cambrensis
Two musical friars / Salimbene
An orchestra of the fourteenth century / Guillaume de Machaut.
The mirror, of history: A philosophy of history / Otto of Freising
The problems and motives of the historian / William of Tyre
The seven liberal arts: On study and teaching / Hugh of St. Victor
The battle of the arts / Henri d'Andeli
Rules of the University of Paris / Chartulary of the University of Paris
Fernando of Cordova, the boy wonder / Launoy
The problems of a Christian humanist / John of Salisbury
The ancients and the moderns / Walter Map
A plea for the study of languages / Roger Bacon
Statute of the Council of Vienne on Languages / Chartulary of the University of Paris
An English humanist / Richard de Bury
In defence of liberal studies / Coluccio Salutati
In praise of Greek / Leonardo Bruni.
The mirror of nature: Questions on nature / Adelard of Bath
Experimental science / Roger Bacon
The case of a woman doctor in Paris / Chartulary of the University of Paris
The history of surgery / Gui de Chauliac
The mirror of wisdom: The place of logic in philosophy / Peter Abelard
The end of man / Saint Thomas Aquinas
On learned ignorance / Nicholas of Cusa
The vision of God: The soul complains to God / Jacopone da Todi
A crying mystic / Margery Kempe
The vision of God / Nicholas of Cusa.
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