The Portable Medieval Reader

, by Various; Ross, James Bruce; McLaughlin, Mary Martin

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ISBN: 9780140150469 | 0140150463
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Copyright: 5/26/1977

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Sampling from 1050 to 1500, this anthology contains writings by more than a hundred writers including Chaucer, Dante, Petrach, Thomas Aquinas, Peter Abelard, Leonardo, Friar Bacon, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, John of Salisbury, William Langland and Nicholas of Cusa.

Introduction

(29)

Chronological Table

(8)

Suggestions for Further Reading

(9)

PART ONE: THE BODY SOCIAL

The Body Social

(2)

John of Salisbury

The Orders of Men

The Clergy: The Prayers and Thinkers

The Monastic Ideal

(8)

Peter Damiani

The Cistercian Order

(2)

William of Malmesbury

How the Friars Came to Germany

(5)

Jordan of Giano

A Preacher and His Miracles

(3)

Salimbene

Monastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century

(4)

John Busch

Archbishop Baldwin of Canterbury

(2)

Giraldus Cambrensis

A Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham

(2)

John Capgrave

An Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy

(3)

Ordericus Vitalis

The Habits of Priests in Normandy

(4)

Odo of Rigaud

Statutes for a College

(3)

Robert de Sorbonne

How the Student Should Behave

(5)

John of Garland

The Nobility: The Fighters

The Function of Knighthood

(1)

John of Salisbury

The Chivalric Ideal

(1)

Diaz de Gamez

The Murder of a Feudal Lord

(10)

Galbert of Bruges

The Battle of Poitiers

102

(10)

Geoffrey le Baker

A Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century

112

(3)

Jorg von Ehingen

The Rules of Courtly Love

115

(2)

Andreas Capellanus

A Noble Household

117

(3)

Jean Froissart

Offices in a Noble Household

120

(2)

John Russell

Private Lives of the English Gentry

122

(7)

Stonor Letters

The Peasants and Burghers: The Workers

The Feet of the Common-Wealth

129

(1)

John of Salisbury

The Duties of Manorial Officers

130

(6)

Seneschaucie

The Peasant's Life

136

(3)

William Langland

The Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale

139

(5)

Reginald of Durham

Advice to a Norwegian Merchant

The King's Mirror

144

(5)

The Successful Surgeon

149

(5)

John Arderne

The Good Wife

The Goodman of Paris

154

(7)

Life in London

Memorials of London

161

(6)

Fashions in Italy

167

(3)

Sacchetti

The Jews

Papal Protection of the Jews

170

(4)

Pope Gregory X

The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry

174

(3)

Jacob von Konigshofen

Conflict, Protest, and Catastrophe

A Revolt of the Commons in London

177

(2)

Roger of Wendover

The Peasant's Revolt in England

179

(15)

Anonimalle Chronicle

My Brother Man

194

(1)

Walther von der Vogelweide

Piers Plowman's Protest

195

(7)

William Langland

The Waldensian Heretics

202

(14)

Bernard Gui

The Impact of the Black Death

216

(6)

Henry Knighton

Paris during the Hundred Years' War

222

(11)

Journal d'un bourgeois

PART TWO: THE CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH

The Spiritual Authority

The Superiority of the Spiritual Authority

233

(3)

Pope Boniface VIII

The Election and Coronation of a Pope

236

(3)

Adam of Usk

The Creation of Cardinals

239

(2)

Pope Pius II

The Fourth Lateran Council

241

(3)

Roger of Wendover

A French Provincial Synod

244

(4)

Odo of Rigaud

Letter to King Henry II

248

(3)

Thomas Becket

The Temporal Authorities

The Nature of a True Prince

251

(8)

John of Salisbury

The Independence of the Temporal Authority

259

(3)

Frederick Barbarossa

The Election and Coronation of an Emperor

262

(3)

Otto of Freising

A German Poet's Attack on the Papacy

265

(1)

Walther von der Vogelweide

The Seven Electors

266

(1)

Adam of Usk

A Picture of a Good Feudal King: Louis VI of France

267

(6)

Suger

The Coronation of Richard Lion Heart

273

(3)

Roger of Wendover

The Deposition and Death of Richard II

276

(5)

Adam of Usk

An Imperialist View of the Lombard Communes

281

(2)

Otto of Freising

City Politics in Siena

283

(3)

Pope Pius II

A Petty Italian Tyrant

286

(2)

Anonymous

A Picture of a Tyrant

288

(2)

Pope Pius II

Renewal and Reform

The Recovery of the Holy Land: A Plan of Action and a Scheme for Reform

290

(13)

Pierre du Bois

On the Supremacy of General Councils in Church and Empire

303

(8)

Nicholas of Cusa

A Plea for the Reform of Germany

Die Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds

311

(8)

A Call for Common Action against the Turks

319

(6)

Pope Pius II

PART THREE: THE HOUSE OF FAME

Bohemond the Crusader

325

(1)

Anna Comnena

On the Fame of Abelard

326

(5)

Heloise

Heloise and Abelard: The Later Years

331

(7)

Peter the Venerable

Arnold of Brescia, a Twelfth-Century Revolutionary

338

(3)

John of Salisbury

Arnold of Brescia

341

(3)

Anonymous

His Own Deeds

344

(12)

Giraldus Cambrensis

Henry II, King of England

356

(6)

Giraldus Cambrensis

The Emperor Frederick II

362

(7)

Salimbene

A Saintly King

369

(9)

Jean de Joinville

Pope Boniface VIII

378

(6)

Giovanni Villani

Dante Alighieri

384

(2)

Giovanni Villani

Inscription for a Portrait of Dante

386

(1)

Giovanni Boccaccio

Giotto

387

(3)

Lorenzo Ghiberti

Letter to Posterity

390

(9)

Francesco Petrarca

Charles the Bold and the Fall of the House of Burgundy

399

(8)

Philippe de Commines

PART FOUR: THE WORLD PICTURE

The Frontiers of Europe: Conquest and Assimilation of Peoples

Anglo-Saxons and Normans

407

(3)

William of Malmesbury

The Character and Customs of the Irish

410

(5)

Giraldus Cambrensis

The Conversion and Subjugation of the Slavs

415

(6)

Helmold

The German Push to the East

421

(9)

Ordensritter und Kirchenfursten

The Near East: Pilgrimage and Crusade

The Great German Pilgrimage

430

(7)

Lambert of Hersfeld

The First Contact of Crusaders and Turks

437

(7)

Histoire anonyme de la premiere croisade

A Greek View of the Crusaders

444

(3)

Anna Comnena

An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders

447

(5)

Usamah

A Crusader's Criticism of the Greeks

452

(3)

Odo of Deuil

Why the Crusaders Failed

455

(3)

William of Tyre

The Expedition of the Grand Company to Constantinople

458

(7)

Ramon Muntaner

The Far East: Missionaries and Merchants

The Tartar Menace to Europe

465

(1)

Matthew Paris

A Mission to the Great Khan

466

(10)

William of Rubruck

The Labours of a Friar in Cathay

476

(5)

John of Monte Corvino

A Last Mission to Cathay

481

(6)

John of Marignolli

Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay

487

(4)

Francesco Pegolotti

Henry the Navigator's Search for New Lands

491

(6)

Gomes de Azurara

PART FIVE: THE NOBLE CASTLE

The Makers

Poets and Story-Tellers

The Vision of Viands

497

(3)

Aniar MacConglinne

Hymn for Good Friday

500

(1)

Peter Abelard

David's Lament for Jonathan

501

(1)

Peter Abelard

Let's Away with Study

502

(1)

Anonymous

When Diana Lighteth

503

(2)

Anonymous

To Bel Vezer on Her Dismissal of the Poet

505

(1)

Bernart de Ventadorn

Dawn Song

506

(1)

Anonymous

The Pretty Fruits of Love

507

(2)

Anonymous

This Song Wants Drink

509

(1)

Anonymous

The Love of Tristan and Iseult

510

(2)

Gottfried von Strassburg

Of the Churl Who Won Paradise

512

(4)

Anonymous

Gather Ye Rosebuds

Romance of the Rose

516

(1)

The Canticle of the Sun

517

(2)

Saint Francis of Assisi

Of the Gentle Heart

519

(2)

Guido Guinicelli

My Lady Looks So Gentle

521

(1)

Dante Alighieri

Beauty in Women

522

(1)

Guido Cavalcanti

Of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Sinner

523

(1)

Jacopone da Todi

Merciless Beauty: A Triple Roundel

524

(2)

Geoffrey Chaucer

Roundel

526

(1)

Christine de Pisan

Miracles of the Virgin

527

(3)

Johannes Herolt

Painters and Builders

Of Pictures and Images

530

(4)

William Durandus

How to Represent the Arts and Sciences

534

(4)

Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte

The Identity of Individual Artists

538

(2)

Recueil de textes

Abbots as Builders

540

(6)

Gesta abbatum sancti Albani

A Painter on His Craft

546

(4)

Cennino Cennini

Nature as the Supreme Authority

550

(2)

Leonardo da Vinci

Musicians

Celtic Music and Music in General

552

(4)

Giraldus Cambrensis

Two Musical Friars

556

(4)

Salimbene

An Orchestra of the Fourteenth Century

560

(2)

Guillaume de Machaut

The Mirror, of History

A Philosophy of History

562

(6)

Otto of Freising

The Problems and Motives of the Historian

568

(5)

William of Tyre

The Seven Liberal Arts

On Study and Teaching

573

(17)

Hugh of St. Victor

The Battle of the Arts

590

(4)

Henri d'Andeli

Rules of the University of Paris

Chartulary of the University of Paris

594

(2)

Fernando of Cordova, the Boy Wonder

596

(2)

Launoy

The Problems of a Christian Humanist

598

(4)

John of Salisbury

The Ancients and the Moderns

602

(2)

Walter Map

A Plea for the Study of Languages

604

(5)

Roger Bacon

Statute of the Council of Vienne on Languages

609

(1)

Chartulary

An English Humanist

610

(3)

Richard de Bury

In Defence of Liberal Studies

613

(5)

Coluccio Salutati

In Praise of Greek

618

(2)

Leonardo Bruni

The Mirror of Nature

Questions on Nature

620

(6)

Adelard of Bath

Experimental Science

626

(9)

Roger Bacon

The Case of a Woman Doctor in Paris

Chartulary of the University of Paris

635

(5)

The History of Surgery

640

(10)

Gui de Chauliac

The Mirror of Wisdom

The Place of Logic in Philosophy

650

(4)

Peter Abelard

The End of Man

654

(13)

Saint Thomas Aquinas

On Learned Ignorance

667

(9)

Nicholas of Cusa

The Vision of God

The Soul Complains to God

676

(3)

Jacopone da Todi

A Crying Mystic

679

(3)

Margery Kempe

The Vision of God

682

(7)

Nicholas of Cusa

Acknowledgments

689

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The Portable Medieval Reader

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