Readings in Medieval History, Fifth Edition / Edition 5

by Patrick J. Geary

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:	9781442634398
Publisher:	University of Toronto Press, Higher Education Division
Publication date:	11/02/2015
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	736
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 1.00(d)

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.