Alfred J. Andrea - The Medieval Record: Sources of Medieval History

The Medieval Record

Sources of Medieval History

Second Revised Edition

The Medieval Record

Sources of Medieval History

Second Revised Edition

Alfred J. Andrea
University of Vermont

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Marco Polo, The Description of the World . Translated, with an Introduction and Annotations, by Sharon Kinoshita.

Seven Myths of the Crusades . Edited, with an Introduction and Epilogue, by Alfred J. Andrea and Andrew Holt.

The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck . Translated by Peter Jackson, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices by Peter Jackson and David Morgan.

The Book of John Mandeville . Edited and translated, with an Introduction, by Iain Macleod Higgins.

Ingenia et artes maxime fovit.

To the Memory of William M. Daly (19202005)

Professor Emeritus, Boston College

Who introduced several generations of students

To the challenge and pleasures

Of analyzing medieval sources

Contents

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Part One
The Collapse of Roman Unity and the Emergence of Three Successor Civilizations: 1001050 C.E.

1. Aelius Aristides, THE ROMAN ORATION and TWO MOSAICS AT OSTIA

2. Lactantius, ON THE DEATHS OF THE PERSECUTORS

3. THE THEODOSIAN CODE

4. Tertullian, A DEFENSE OF CHRISTIANS AGAINST THE PAGANS

5. Eusebius of Caesarea, ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

6. THE THEODOSIAN CODE

THE BARBERINI IVORY

8. Salvian, THE GOVERNANCE OF GOD

9. Sidonius Apollinaris , LETTERS

10. Gregory of Tours, HISTORY OF THE FRANKS

11. THE SALIC LAW CODE

12. Cassiodorus, VARIAE

13. THE ALTAR OF RATCHIS; A ROMAN SARCOPHAGUS

14. MOSAIC PORTRAITS OF JUSTINIAN AND THEODORA AT SAN VITALE

THE BOOK OF THE EPARCH

16. Constantine VII , GOVERNING THE EMPIRE

. Michael Psellus, THE CHRONOGRAPHIA

18. THE QURAN

19. Imam al-Bukhari, THE AUTHENTIC [COLLECTION] OF AL-BUKHARI

20. THE PACT OF IBN MUSLAMA; THE PACT OF UMAR; Al-Nawawi, MANUAL of ISLAMIC LAW

21. Pope Gregory I, DIALOGUES

THE LIFE OF THE VIRGIN LIUTBIRG

THE RULE OF SAINT BENEDICT

24. Adomnn, LIFE OF SAINT COLUMBA, FOUNDER OF HY; Saint Columban, THE MONKS RULE, THE CENOBITIC RULE, and THE PENITENTIAL

25. Pope Gelasius I, LETTER TO EMPEROR ANASTASIUS I

Pope Gregory I, LETTERS

27. Pope Gregory II, LETTER TO EMPEROR LEO III

28. The Venerable Bede, LETTER TO BISHOP ECGBERT

29. Willibald, LIFE of SAINT BONIFACE

30. Einhard, THE LIFE OF CHARLES THE GREAT

31. Charles the Great, LETTERS

Charles the Great, CAPITULARIES

33. Pope Leo IIIs Lateran Mosaics

34. Nithard, FOUR BOOKS OF HISTORIES

35. Regino of Prm, CHRONICLE

36. THE PEACE OF GOD; THE TRUCE OF GOD

37. Odo of Cluny, THE LIFE OF THE MAN OF GOD, GERALD; Ad mar of Chabannes, THE LIFE OF SAINT GERALD OF AURILLAC

38. Fulbert of Chartres, LETTER TO DUKE WILLIAM V OF AQUITAINE

Alfred the Great, LETTER TO BISHOP WRFERTH

40. Liudprand of Cremona, CONCERNING KING OTTO

41. TWO CRUCIFIX IVORIES

42. Liudprand of Cremona, RETRIBUTION and REPORT ON THE EMBASSY TO CONSTANTINOPLE

43. THE CROWNING OF OTTO II AND THEOPHANO and THE CROWNING OF ROMANOS AND EUDOKIA

44. Roswitha of Gandersheim, DULCITIUS

45. Ralph Glaber, FIVE BOOKS OF HISTORY

Part Two
European Efflorescence and Expansion: 10501300

46. Bernard of Clairvaux, SERMONS IN PRAISE OF THE VIRGIN MOTHER

47. Jacques de Vitry, SERMONS FOR THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO CLASS

48. THE DARMSTADT KOIM SIS OF THE THEOTOKOS and THE STRASBOURG DORMITION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN

. Stephen of Bourbon, A TREATISE ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS FOR SERMONS

Peter of Vaux-de-Cernay, THE ALBIGENSIAN HISTORY

51. Francis of Assisi, TESTAMENT

52. DECREES OF THE FOURTH LATERAN COUNCIL

53. Pseudo-David of Augsburg, ON THE INQUISITION OF HERETICS

54. Burchard of Worms, THE LAW OF THE FAMILY OF THE CHURCH OF WORMS

55. Frederick of Hamburg-Bremen, CHARTER OF PRIVILEGES

56. TWO PADUAN LAND CONTRACTS

57. THE SONG OF ROLAND

Ranulf de Glanville, CONCERNING THE LAWS AND CUSTOMS OF THE KINGDOM OF ENGLAND

59. THE FUERO OF CUENCA

60. ORDINANCES OF THE MERCHANT GUILD OF SOUTHAMPTON

61. John of Viterbo, BOOK ON THE GOVERNMENT OF CITIES

6 2. Rdegar Huozman, CHARTER TO THE JEWS OF SPEYER

63. Emperor Frederick I, A CHARTER OF PRIVILEGES FOR THE JEWS OF WORMS

THE BAPTISMAL FOUNT OF THE CHURCH OF SAINTS PETER AND PAUL, BOCHUM; ECCLESIA AND SYNAGOGA, STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL; THE SOUTH PORTAL, STRASBOURG CATHEDRAL

65. Peter Abelard, SIC ET NON

66. Thomas Aquinas, SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES

67. A STATUTE OF 1272 OF THE FACULTY OF ARTS OF PARIS

68. Chrtien de Troyes, EREC AND ENIDE

6 9. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE MARKS OF SILVER

70. Richard of Devizes, THE CHRONICLE OF RICHARD OF DEVIZES FOR THE TIME OF KING RICHARD I

71. A VIRGIN AND CHRIST CHILD TRIPTYCH and NOTRE DAME LA BRUNE

72. Giselbertus, EVE; Anonymous, THE TEMPTATION IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN; and Anonymous, THE TEMPTER AND THE FOOLISH VIRGINS

73. FOUR DOCUMENTS FROM THE INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY

74. Anna Comnena, ALEXIAD

75. THE SARCOPHAGUS OF BISHOP ADELOCHUS and THE INVESTITURE OF KING ROGER II

76. Innocent III, SOLITAE

77. John Quidort ( John of Paris), ON ROYAL AND PAPAL POWER

78. THE ASSIZE OF CLARENDON

79. Jean de Joinville, THE BOOK OF THE HOLY WORDS AND GOOD DEEDS OF OUR KING, SAINT LOUIS

80. Alfonso IX, DECREES OF 1188; Alfonso X, ORDINANCES OF THE CORTES OF SEVILLE IN 1252; Pedro III, ORDINANCE OF 1283

MAGNA CARTA

82. Frederick II, STATUTE IN FAVOR OF THE PRINCES

83. Edward I, SUMMONS TO PARLIAMENT, 1295

Pope Urban II, LETTERS TO FLANDERS AND BOLOGNA; Robert the Monk, HISTORY OF THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM

85. Ekkehard of Aura, THE JERUSALEMITE; Albert of Aachen, HISTORY OF THE JOURNEY TO JERUSALEM; THE MAINZ ANONYMOUS

86. THE DEEDS OF THE FRANKS AND OF THE OTHER PILGRIMS TO JERUSALEM

87. Fulcher of Chartres, A HISTORY OF THE JERUSALEM PILGRIMS

88. Ibn Jubayr, AN ACCOUNT OF EVENTS THAT HAPPENED ON CERTAIN JOURNEYS

89. Henry of Livonia, CHRONICLE

90. Matthew Paris, THE GREATER CHRONICLE: AN ENTRY FOR 1240; IVO OF NARBONNES CONFESSION; THE TARTAR FEAST

91. Jean de Joinville, THE BOOK OF THE HOLY WORDS AND GOOD DEEDS OF OUR SAINTLY KING LOUIS

John of Monte Corvino, LETTER TO THE WEST

Part Three
Crisis, Retrenchment, Recovery, and a New World: 13001500

93. Jean de Venette, CHRONICLE

94. Henry Knighton, CHRONICLE

95. Saint Catherine of Siena, LETTERS

John Wycliff, CONCERNING THE POPE

97. Jean Froissart, CHRONICLES OF FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND NEIGHBORING COUNTRIES

98. THE FRANC CHEVAL

99. Franco Sacchetti, THREE HUNDRED NOVELLAS

100. Geoffrey Chaucer, THE CANTERBURY TALES