Table of Contents

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 History of the Franks
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 (866-890)
Letter to King Edward the Elder
Asser's Life of King Alfred
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
17. Theodore Penitential

The Carolingians

18. Einhard Life of Charles the Great
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

The Mendicants

31. The Rule of Saint Francis of Assisi
32. Claire 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

The Empire

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

Poland

45. The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles
46. The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg

France

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

England

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

The Iberian Peninsula

57. Fuero de Cuenca
58. Las Siete Partidas

Italy

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

Glossary

Sources

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About the Author

Patrick J. Geary, Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author and editor of numerous books on medieval history.