Readings in Medieval History, Fifth Edition

by Patrick Geary (Editor)

Overview

Patrick J. Geary's highly acclaimed collection of source materials on the Western medieval world is well-known for offering an excellent selection of substantial excerpts—or entire documents wherever possible—from the most widely studied historical texts.

This much-anticipated fifth edition features a larger format, as well as enlarged type, to make the collection more reader-friendly. Study questions have been added at the end of each section to help students focus on key points in the text. New documents on the Black Death, William of Rubruck, and Marco Polo are included, as well as a new selection from St. Benedict's Rule for Monasteries and a new translation of Einhard's The Life of Charlemagne. Two color photo sections have been added, introducing students to fascinating medieval art such as a fifth-century ivory from Constantinople, the two earliest images of Joan of Arc, the Sachsenspiegel, and a shirt that belonged to Queen Bathild.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781442634411
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press
Publication date:	11/02/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	736
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Patrick J. Geary is Professor of Medieval History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He is the author and editor of numerous books on medieval history.

Table of Contents

Color Plates
Preface

Late Antiquity
1. Theodosian Code
2. Augustine of Hippo
On Christian Doctrine
City of God
3. St. Perpetua The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas

The Barbarian World
4. Tacitus Germania
5. Jordanes History of the Goths
6. Hildebrandslied

The Early Franks
7. The Tomb of Childeric, Father of Clovis
8. Salic Law
9. Bishops Remigius of Reims and Avitus of Vienne Letters to Clovis
10. Gregory of Tours The Ten Books of Histories
11. Life of Saint Balthild

Early Italy
12. Saint Benedict Rule for Monasteries
13. Gregory the Great Dialogues

Anglo-Saxon England
14. Laws of Ethelbert
15. Bede History of the English Church and People
16. King Alfred
Dooms
The Treaty between Alfred and Guthrum (886–890)
Letter to King Edward the Elder
Asser's Life of King Alfred
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
17. Theodore Penitential

The Carolingians
18. Einhard The Life of Charlemagne
19. Selected Capitularies
20. Dhuoda's Handbook for her Son (Liber Manualis)

Monasticism
21. Cluniac Charters
The Foundation Charter of Cluny
Charters of the Grossi Family
22. Miracles of Saint Foy
23. Anselm Proslogion
24. Bernard of Clairvaux Sermons on the Song of Songs
25. Guibert of Nogent Memoirs

Lords and Vassals
26. Fulbert of Chartres Letter to William of Aquitaine
27. Hugh of Lusignan Agreement between Lord and Vassal
28. Galbert of Bruges the Murder of Charles the Good

The First Crusade
29. Four Accounts
Fulcher of Chartres
Solomon Bar Simson
Ibn Al-Athir
Anna Comnena

The Fourth Lateran Council
30. Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215

The Mendicants
31. The Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi
32. Clare of Assisi Testament
33. Canonization Process of St. Dominic
34. Thomas of Cantimpré Defense of the Mendicants
35. St. Thomas Aquinas On the Proofs of God's Existence

Church and Society in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
36. Jacques Fournier Inquisition Records
37. Marsilius of Padua Discourses
38. The Book of Margery Kempe
39. The Black Death
Gabriele de' Mussis
Ralph of Shrewsbury
Flores Temporum
Ordinance of Laborers

The Empire
40. Liudprand of Cremona A Chronicle of Otto's Reign
41. Pope Gregory VII and King Henry IV the Investiture Controversy
42. The Concordat of Worms
43. Otto of Freising The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa
44. The Saxon Mirror (Sachsenspiegel)
45. Emperor Charles IV Autobiography

Poland
46. The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles
47. The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg

France
48. Joinville Life of St. Louis
49. Enquêts of King Louis IX
50. Jean Froissart Chronicles
51. The Trial of Joan of Arc

England
52. Domesday Book
53. Richard fitz Nigel Dialogue of the Exchequer
54. Accounts of the Exchequer: An Example
55. Magna Carta
TheArticles of the Barons, June 15, 1215
Magna Carta, 1215
Pope Innocent III declares Magna Carta null and void, August 24, 1215
Magna Carta, 1216
56. Royal Courts of England: The Huntingdonshire Eyre of 1286
57. A Medieval English Village: Plans of Wharram Percy

The Iberian Peninsula
58. Fuero de Cuenca
59. Las Siete Partidas

Italy
60. Giovanni Scriba Notary Book
61. Dialogues of Catherine of Siena
62. Florence: Catasto of 1427
63. Gregorio Dati Diary

Western Europe and the Mongols
64. The Journey of William of Rubruck
65. The Travels of Marco Polo

Glossary
Sources

What People are Saying About This

Richard M. Pollard

This new edition is extremely welcome. Geary's collection was my favourite as an undergraduate, and I now use it in my own classes. Rather than the tiny and one-dimensional snippets found in other readers, this volume offers generous portions of sources, or even their entirety. In reading these sources, students learn the craft of the historian: to piece together the meaning of text, to understand the author's 'voice' and motives, and to be surprised (and delighted) by a text's many details and idiosyncrasies.

Nicholas Everett

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.

A.J. Andrea

The best collection of medieval documents in print.

Rosamond 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.