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For this new edition, Patrick J. Geary has incorporated more bibliographical information into the introductions to the readings. Five texts have been added to better reflect legal, religious, Polish, and women's history. A glossary is provided to help with unfamiliar terms. For students who want to dig deeper into the primary sources, secondary readings about the primary sources are listed.
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Piotr Gorecki
Instructors of medieval history are fortunate to have at their disposal a new edition of the best selection of medieval primary courses in English translation available today. Like its predecessors, this fourth edition fulfills the promise expressed in the author's preface: to introduce us and our students to documents representing a great variety of genres, subjects, and places throughout medieval Europe and to present those documents in their entirety or in substantial portions. The documents allow us, the teachers, and more importantly, our students, the freedom to read in depth, select, and analyze—to practice history at its best, right in the classroom.
— Piotr Gorecki, University of California, Riverside
Nicholas Everett
Geary's careful and wise selection of texts in his reader provides the best balance between range and depth necessary for a successful source book. Students are introduced to the richness of medieval evidence and can engage with the personalities who produced it in a way that encourages further study and reflection on the Middle Ages.
— Nicholas Everett, University of Toronto
Rosamund McKitterick
Provides an excellent selection of complete texts or substantial extracts from key primary sources, helpfully grouped thematically and illustrating many current issues in modern historical study... an invaluable introduction.
— Rosamund McKitterick, Newnham College, University of Cambridge
A.J. Andrea
The best collection of medieval documents in print.
— A.J. Andrea, University of Vermont
Piotr Gorecki
Instructors of medieval history are fortunate to have at their disposal a new edition of the best selection of medieval primary courses in English translation available today. Like its predecessors, this fourth edition fulfills the promise expressed in the author's preface: to introduce us and our students to documents representing a great variety of genres, subjects, and places throughout medieval Europe and to present those documents in their entirety or in substantial portions. The documents allow us, the teachers, and more importantly, our students, the freedom to read in depth, select, and analyze—to practice history at its best, right in the classroom.Nicholas Everett
Geary's careful and wise selection of texts in his reader provides the best balance between range and depth necessary for a successful source book. Students are introduced to the richness of medieval evidence and can engage with the personalities who produced it in a way that encourages further study and reflection on the Middle Ages.Rosamund McKitterick
Provides an excellent selection of complete texts or substantial extracts from key primary sources, helpfully grouped thematically and illustrating many current issues in modern historical study... an invaluable introduction.A.J. Andrea
The best collection of medieval documents in print.John Shinners
Finally, a reader that doesn't condescend to its audience. Giving students a generous selection of unedited texts allows them to appreciate the riches of medieval texts. A treasure house!Richard C. Hoffman
Outstanding coverage and depth.David Routt
An outstanding, eclectic collection of documents.Product Details
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Table of Contents
Preface xi
Late Antiquity
1 Theodosian Code 1
2 Augustine of Hippo On Christian Doctrine 28
City of God 46
3 St. Perpetua The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas 58
The Barbarian World
4 Tacitus Germania 65
5 Jordanes History of the Goths 78
6 Hildebrandslied 111
The Early Franks
7 The Tomb of Childeric, Father of Clovis 113
8 Salic Law 122
9 Bishops Remigius of Reims and Avitus of Vienne Letters to Clovis 129
10 Gregory of Tours History of the Franks 131
11 Life of Saint Balthild 153
Early Italy
12 Saint Benedict Rule for Monasteries 159
13 Gregory the Great Dialogues 189
Anglo-Saxon England
14 Laws of Ethelbert 209
15 Bede History of the English Church and People 212
16 King Alfred Dooms 223
The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum (886-890) 228
Letter to King Edward the Elder 228
Asser's Life of King Alfred 230
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 239
17 Theodore Penitential 247
The Carolingians
18 Einhard Life of Charles the Great 266
19 Selected Capitularies 280
20 Dhuoda's Handbook for her Son (Liber Manualis) 302
Monasticism
21 Cluniac Charters The Foundation Charter of Cluny 315
Charters of the Grossi Family 317
22 Miracles of Saint Foy 322
23 Anselm Proslogion 329
24 Bernard of Clairvaux Sermons on the Song of Songs 342
25 Guibert of Nogent Memoirs 351
Lords and Vassals
26 Fulbert of Chartres Letter to William of Aquitaine 376
27 Hugh of Lusignan Agreement between Lord and Vassal 377
28 Galbert of Bruges the Murder of Charles the Good 382
The First Crusade
29 Four Accounts Fulcher of Chartres 394
Solomon Bar Simson 406
Ibn Al-Athir 413
Anna Comnena 418
The Fourth Lateran Council
30 Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 430
The Mendicants
31 The Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi 456
32 Clare of Assisi Testament 460
33 Canonization Process of St. Dominic 464
34 Thomas of Cantimpré Defense of the Mendicants 475
35 St. Thomas Aquinas On the Proofs of God's Existence 478
Church and Society in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
36 Jacques Fournier Inquisition Records 482
37 Marsilius of Padua Discourses 502
38 The Book of Margery Kempe 523
The Empire
39 Liudprand of Cremona A Chronicle of Otto's Reign 554
40 Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV the Investiture Controversy 562
41 The Concordat of Worms 587
42 Otto of Freising The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa 588
43 The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel) 598
44 Emperor Charles IV Autobiography 603
The Golden Bull 618
Poland
45 The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles 639
46 The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg 647
France
47 Joinville Life of St. Louis 649
48 Enquêts of King Louis 667
49 Jean Froissart Chronicles 677
50 The Trial of Joan of Arc 701
England
51 Domesday Book 716
52 Richard fitz Nigel Dialogue of the Exchequer 724
53 Accounts of the Exchequer: An Example 730
54 Magna Carta 735
The Articles of the Barons, June 15, 1215 735
Magna Carta, 1215 739
Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta null and void, August 24,1215 746
Magna Carta, 1216 747
55 Royal Courts of England the Huntingdonshire Eyre of 1286 752
56 A Medieval English Village: Plans of Wharram Percy 756
The Iberian Peninsula
57 Fuero de Cuenca 759
58 Las Siete Partidas 761
Italy
59 Giovanni Scriba Notary Book 770
60 Dialogues of Catherine of Siena 772
61 Florence: Catasto of 1427 781
62 Gregorio Dati Diary 793
Glossary 808
Sources 811