INTRODUCTION

"A primary source is distinguished from a secondary by the fact that the former gives the words of the witness, or first recorder of an event. The historian, using a number of such primary sources, produces a secondary source". (Barzun, The Modern Historian, p. 94).

A primary source is a work written at a time that is contemporary or nearly contemporary with the subject or period under study. Primary sources provide the raw data and information for the historian. A secondary source is a work that contains the explanation of, and judgements on, this primary material. A historical work is considered scholarly and reliable according to the extent to which it is based on "primary" sources, (i.e. the basic, raw, imperfect evidence). The book the historian writes is a "secondary" source.

This bibliography is a selective list of primary sources in English, available in the University of Calgary Library. It is selective because these books represent a small portion of those available in the collection. The arrangement is by call number within each subject grouping.

To be used in conjunction with "Medieval Western Monasticism: Primary Sources in English in the University of Calgary Library."

For further assistance, comments, corrections contact Nora Robins, History Librarian, 220-7391 or robins@ucalgary.ca

 
Updated July 2000

CONTENTS

ANTHOLOGIES

Carolongian civilization: a reader / edited by Paul Edward Dutton. Broadview Press: Peterborough, Ont., 1993. 513 p.
DC70 .C36 1993

Christianity and paganism, 350-750: the conversion of Western Europe / J.N. Hillgarth.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. 213 p.
BR200 .C47 1986

Chronicles of the barbarians: firsthand accounts of pillage and conquest, from the ancient world to the fall of Constantinople / 
edited by David Willis McCullough. New York: Times Books, c1998. 
D104 .C55 1998

The Crusades: a documentary survey / James A. Brundage. Milwaukee, Marquette University Press, 1962. 318 p.
D157 .B78 1962

Early medieval theology / George Englert McCracken.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1957. 430 p.
BR50 .M16 1957

The Early Middle Ages, 500-1000 / R. Brentano (ed.)  New York: Free Press, 1964. 306 p. (Sources in Western civilization; 4)
D113.5 .B7

• 22 documents relating to the development of Western civilization, translated into English
• introductory essay

The Era of Charlemagne: Frankish state and society / [by] Stewart C. Easton and Helene Wieruszowski. Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1961. 192 p.
DC73 .E26 1961

Garland Library of Medieval Literature. New York: Garland, 1981-
CALL NUMBERS VARY

• poems, music, tales
• search for works in this series by individual titles or authors, or by series title: Garland Library of Medieval Literature
  • (ex. PN 667 W74 1994 The Writings of Medieval women)

Great Books of the Western World. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1952. 54 v.
AC1 .G78 (4LT)

The High Middle Ages, 1000-1300 / B.D. Lyon.  New York: Collier, 1964. 273 p.
D113 .L84

• 17 documents relating to society, crusaders, medieval church
• includes the Magna Carta

The History of feudalism. Atlantic Highlands, N.J.: Humanities Press, 1979, c1970. 352 p.
JC111 .H45 1979

Medieval culture and society / edited by David Herlihy. New York: Harper, 1968.
CB351 .H45 1968

Medieval English political writings / edited by James M. Dean. Kalmazoo, Mich.: Published for TEAMS (The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1996. xxv, 270 p.
PR1120 .M3735 1996

Medieval hagiography: an anthology / edited by Thomas Head.  New York: Routledge, 2000.
BR1710 .M43 2000

• guide to the development of the cult of the saints and the practice of religion
• includes translations of saints' lives, miracle stories, discoveries of relics, visions, heresy trials
• period covered is the fourth only to the pre-Reformation period

Patterns of medieval society / Jeremy duQuesnay Adams.  Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice, 1969.
HN11 .A32 1969

Poetry of the Carolingian Renaissance / Peter Godman. London: Duckworth, 1985. 364 p.
PA8122 .G625 1985

The Portable Medieval Reader / J.B. Ross. Harmonsworth: Penguin, 1977. 690 p.
PN667 .R82 1977

• selections for the eleventh to fifteenth centuries from biographies, history, politics, science, religion, literature, letters

Readings in European history: a collection of extracts from the sources chosen with the purpose of illustrating the progress of culture in western Europe since the German invasions / James Harvey Robinson.  Boston: Ginn, 1904-1906. 2 v.
D101.2 .R66

Readings in Medieval History / P.J. Geary (ed.) Peterborough, ON: Broadview, 1989. 834 p.
D113 .R42 1997

• entire documents or long excerpts (435-1500), in English translation, history, religious life, intellectual life, society

• well-edited texts in English translation with introduction and notes
• search for works in the series by individual titles or authors, or by series title: Records of Civilization
  • (ex. BX 1187 A41 1932 The Correspondence of Pope Gregory VII)

The Reign of Charlemagne: documents on Carolingian government and administration / [compiled by] H.R. Loyn and John Percival. London: Edward Arnold, 1975. 164 p. (Documents on medieval history; 2)
DC73 .A2 R39 1975

Rural economy and country life in the medieval West / Georges Duby, translated by Cynthia Postan. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1968. 600 p.
HD1917 .D821 1968

Sainted women of the Dark Ages / edited and translated by Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg with E. Gordon Whatley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992. 340 p.
BX4656 .S25 1992

Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages / E.F. Henderson.  New York: AMS Press, 1968 (c1892). 477 p.
D113 .H45 1892

A Source Book for Medieval History / O.J. Thatcher.  New York: AMS, 1971 (c1905). 619 p.
D113 .T42 1905 (2LB)

• "selected documents illustrating the history of Europe in the Middle Ages"

• selections from original documents dealing chiefly with the Carolingian Empire; Church and Papacy; Imperial Germany and Italy; France and Flanders
• aimed at students "who would like to see something of the rare material on which the writing" of history ultimately depends. (Pref.)

Sources of Medieval History / C. David.  New York, 1967. 2 v.
D113 .D7 1967

• v. 1: The Eagle, the Crescent and the Cross, 250-1000
• v. 2: Western Awakening, 1000-1500
  • selections from sources for western Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and Russia
  • letters, chronicles, biographies, treatises, poems

Visions of heaven and hell before Dante. New York: Italica Press, 1989. 286 p.
BT844 .V57 1989

• St. Peter's apocalypse -- St. Paul's apocalypse -- Three visions from Gregory the Great -- Furseus' vision -- Drythelm's vision -- Wetti's vision -- St. Brendan's voyage -- Charles the Fat's vision -- St. Patrick's purgatory -- Tundale's vision -- The Monk of Evesham's vision -- Thurkill's vision.

BRITAIN

Alcuin of York, c.732-804: his life and letters / [edited] Stephen Allott. York, W. Sessions, 1974. 174 p.
B765 .A6 A31 1974

• Alcuin was one of the key figures in the Carolingian renaissance

Anglo-Saxon Charters / J. Robertson (ed.).  Cambridge, 1956. 555 p.
KF346 .A54 1956r (Law)

• invaluable selection of translations

• a compilation of accounts of English history to 1154; contemporary annual entries, surveying national and international events. The chronicle was begun c.892 by the monks of Winchester

Anglo-Saxon Wills / D. Whitelock (editor).  Cambridge, 1930. 244 p.
KF758 .A9513 1930r (Law)

• fundamental work on this valuable type of source material

The Annals of Roger de Hoveden, comprising the history of England and of other countries of Europe / translated by Henry T. Riley. London: [s.n.], 1853. 2 v.
DA200 .R64 1853

• Roger of Howden or Hoveden, was in English chronicles
• the period covered is 732 AD to 1180. The Annals were intended as a continuation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History

The Autobiography of Giraldus Cambrensis / Giraldus Cambrensis, edited and translated by H.E. Butler; with an introductory chapter by C.H. Williams. London: J. Cape, [1937]. 368 p.
DA209 .G5 A31 1937

• Selections from the author's works with connecting links and explanatory notes by the editor. cf. Pref.
• Gerald of Wales was a Welsh historian and churchman

Calendar of plea and memoranda rolls preserved among the archives of the Corporation of the city of London at the Guildhall. Edited by A.H. Thomas. Cambridge: University Press, 1926-61. 6 v.
DA676 .L64 1926

• Library has v. 1, 2

Camden Society Publications. London: Royal Historical Society, 1838-
DA20

• a fundamental collection of English medieval texts in four series so search for works by individual titles or authors or by series: Camden Society; Camden miscellany; Camden series; Publications (Camden Society)

• English historian who wrote between 1123-1148AD

A Chronicle of London, from 1089 to 1483: written in the fifteenth century, and for the first time printed from manuscripts in the British Museum. Felinfach: Llanerch, 1995. 274 p.
DA680 .C47 1995

• valuable as a contribution to the history of London and England
• includes "royal letters, poems and other articles descriptive of public events, or of the manners and customs of the metropolis"

• Jocelin was a monk in the Abbey and his narrative of events, 1173-1202, provides a look at life in a medieval religious community

The Chronicle of Richard of Devizes of the time of King Richard the First / Richard of Devizes.  London: Nelson, 1963. 106 p.
DA207 .R51 1963

• historical account of 12th century England, 1189-1192

The Chronicle of Worcester: with a continuation and appendix / Florence of Worcester, edited and in part translated from the originals by Joseph Stevenson. Felinfach, Lampeter, Dyfed: Llanerch Publishers, 1996. 387 p.
DA130 .F55

• facsimile reprint. Originally published: London: Seeleys, 1853 (Church historians of England).

Chronicles of England: an English chronicle of the reigns of Richard II / John Silvester Davies.  Publications (Camden Society (Great Britain)); no. 64. (Microform.)
DA20 .R55 No.64

• Important author for the history of the later Norman Kings and the earlier monarchs of the House of Plantagenet

Chronicles of the revolution, 1397-1400: the reign of Richard II. Translated and annotated by C. Given-Wilson. Manchester: University Press, 1993. 266 p.
DA235 .C54 1993

• contemporary account of the reign of Richard II

Contemporary chronicles of the Middle Ages: sources of twelfth-century history / translated from the Latin by Joseph Stephenson. Felinfach, Dyfed, [Wales]: Llanerch Enterprises, 1988. 120 p.
DA198.5 .C66 1988

• First published by Seeley's of London in the 1850's in a series entitled The Church Historians of England
• A history of his own times, from 1135 to 1142 / William of Malmesbury - The acts of King Stephen and the Battle of the Standard, 1135 to 1139 / Richard of Hexham - The war between the English and the Scots in 1173 and 1174 / Jordan Fantosme

• translations into English of royal letters, petitions, etc.

Domesday Book / J. Morris (editor).  Chichester: Phillimore, 1975-
DA190 .A5 1975

• "The only uniform English translation; in parallel text with the original Latin" (Pref.)
• each volume has an introduction, glossary, maps, notes
• record of lands in England made in 1086 by order of William I

Early English Text Society (Series).
PR1119 .A2

• search for works in the series by individual titles or authors; or in the title file by the series: Early English Text Society (Series); or by call number

• selections from the chief narratives sources arranged chronologically and translated into English

Ecclesiastical History of the English People / Bede.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969. 299 p.
BR746 .B35 1969

• Bede was a monk of Jarrow in Northumbria (circa 735 AD) and one of the foremost medieval chronicles
• most valuable single source for the history of early Christianity and early Anglo-Saxon life in Britain

• v. 1-5, 500 AD-1558
• documents include chronicles, legal, administrative records, letters, etc.
• valuable scholarly source collection with important bibliography and critical notes

Everyone a witness: the Norman Age: Commentaries on an Era / A.F. Scott (editor).  London: White Lion, 1976. 336 p.
DA195 .S34 1976

• contemporary accounts of all aspects of English history during the Norman period

The Gesta Guillelmi of William of Poitiers / edited and translated by R.H.C. Davis and Marjorie Chibnall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. 199 p. (Oxford medieval texts).
DA197 .G8313 1998

• William was one of the Conqueror's chaplains and wrote during his lifetime

The Gesta Normannorum docum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni / edited and translated by Elisabeth M.C. van Houts. Oxford [England]: Clarendon Press, 1992-1995. (Oxford Medieval texts).
DA190 .W5413

• deals with the history of England and France during the Norman period

Gesta Stephani, Regis Anglorum / K.R. Potter and R.H.C. Davis.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976. 249 p.
DA198.5 .G52 1976

• Latin text with English translation; about the reign of King Stephen

Historia novella: the contemporary history / edited by Edmund King; translated by K.R. Potter. New York: Clarendon Press, 1998. (Oxford medieval texts).
DA198.5 .W5213 1998

• Based on first-hand observations made by Gerald during his travels in Ireland in 1185

The History of English affairs I. Warminster, England: Aris & Phillips, 1988. 198 p.
DA195 .W54 1988

A History of the kings of England / Simeon of Durham; translated from the Latin by J. Stevenson. Dyfed, Wales, Llanerch Enterprises, 1990. 203 p.
DA150 .S56

A History of the Norman kings (1066-1125) / William of Malmesbury. Dyfed, Wales: Llanerch Enterprises, 1991. 169 p. A facsimile reprint of the translation from Latin by Joseph Stevenson.
DA195 .W5313 1991

• Reprint. Originally published as books 3-5 of the author's The history of the kings of England and of his own times / translated (A.D. 1815) from the Latin by John Sharpe; rev. and adapted to the text of the English Historical Society (A.D. 1840) with notes, by Joseph Stevenson. [London]: Seeleys, 1854. (The Church historians of England; v.3, pt. 1).

• this history begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ends in 1197

The Illustrated Chronicles of Matthew Paris: Observations of Thirteenth-century Life / Matthew Paris.   Cambridge: Sutton, 1993. 210 p.
DA220 .P2213 1993

• "the aim of this book is to introduce this most colourful and informative of European medieval chroniclers to the interested student and general reader." (Introd) The author, a monk from St. Alban's Abbey near London, describes the violent political history of his period and country

The Journey through Wales and The description of Wales / [by] Gerald of Wales; translated [from the Latin] with an introduction by Lewis Thorpe. Harmondsworth, [England]: Penguin, 1980, c1978. 333 p.
DA725 .G541 1978

• Descriptions based on first-hand observations made by Gerald in 1188

The Kings before the Norman Conquest William of Malmesbury; translated from Latin by Joseph Stephenson. Lampeter, Wales: Llanerch Enterprises, 1989. 216 p.
DA170 .W54 1989

• William was an English monk at the Benedictine monastery of Malmsbury and the most distinguished English historian of his time.

Knighton's Chronicle, 1337-1396. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. 593 p.
DA170 .K55 1995

• Parallel Latin text and English translation.

The Laws of the earliest English kings. Edited and translated by F.L. Attenborough. Cambridge: University Press, 1963.
KD19 .B2 A3 1963

Letters and papers illustrative of the reigns of Richard III and Henry VII / edited by James Gairdner. New York: AMS Press, repr. 1980, c1861.
DA25 .B5 No.24

• Lanfranc was a scholar, theologian, Benedictine monk
• translated into English

The Life and Campaigns of the Black Prince from Contemporary Letters, Diaries and Chronicles, including Chandos Herald's Life of the Black Prince. Boydell: Woodbridge, 1986.
DA234 .L53 1986

The Life of St. Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury  / Eadmer.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. 173 p.
BX4700 .A58 E21 1972

• Eadmer was an English monk and companion of Anselm

Lives of Edward the Confessor. London: Longmans, 1858. 448 p.
DA25 .B5 No.3

The Magna Charta and other great charters of England / B.C. Barrington.  Littleton, Colorado: Rothman, 1993 [c1900]. 342 p.
KF4486 .B37 1900

• includes Magna Charta, great charters, forest charters and other laws of Henry I, II, III, King John, Edward I

• notes and introduction to original material on economic and social problems of 14th century England
• narrative structure; "4-5 chronicles, often contradictory, are brought to bear on every important incident". (Pref)

The Peterborough Chronicle. Translated with an introduction by H.A. Rositzke. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981. 193 p.
DA130 .A54

Plumpton correspondence [microform]: a series of letters, chiefly domestick, written in the reigns of Edward IV, Richard III, Henry VII, and Henry VIII / Edward Plumpton, edited by Thomas Stapleton from Sir Edward Plumpton's book of letters, with notices historical and biographical of the family of Plumpton, of Plumpton. London: J.B. Nichols & Son, 1839
DA20 .R55 No.4

Privy purse expenses of Elizabeth of York: wardrobe accounts of Edward the Fourth / Nicholas Harris.  New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972. 265 p.
DA111 .N52 1830

Records of the Borough of Nottingham. Nottingham: Forman, 1855-1900. 9 v.
DA690 .N92 A16

• v. 1-3, 1155-1547

Royal and historical letters illustrative of the reign of Henry III. London: Longman, 1862-66. 2 v.
DA25 .B5 No.27

• Be sure to check for other titles in the series Rerum britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, DA 25 B5

Selden Society. Publications.
KF346 .A2 S44

• eg. Yearbooks of Edward II
• The Court Baron
• Select cases concerning the law merchant
• Select cases from the Coroner's Rolls

Select Documents of English Constitutional History, 1307-1485 / S.B. Chrimes and A.L. Brown (ed.).  London: Black, 1961. 398 p.
JN111 .C49

• documents of major constitutional importance
• in French, Latin and some English, with editorial notes

A Translation of Glanville / John Beames.  Washington, DC: John Byrne, 1900. 306 p.
KF385 .ZC2 G6313

The Westminster Chronicle, 1381-1394. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982. 563 p.
DA235 .W37 1982

• translated into English

EUROPE

Charlemagne

The Annals of Fulda. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. 174 p.
DD126 .A56 1992

• Ninth century histories/Manchester Medieval sources series

• a detailed contemporary record of events in the Carolingian world, 830-882

• Benedictine abbot and Chrologean (c785-860).

• selected readings from the period; primary source; English translations

• written by a confident of Charlemagne

The Reign of Charlemagne: Documents on Carolingian Government and Administration. London: Arnold, 1975. 164 p.
DC73 .A2 R39 1975

• provides an introduction to the historical sources relevant to the period
• includes annals, biographies, capitularies, letters, charters, with introductory comments

Son of Charlemagne: a contemporary life of Louis the Pious / Astronomous, fl.814-840, translated, with introduction and notes, by Allen Cabaniss. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1961.
DC74 .V51

Conquerors and chronicles of early-medieval Spain / translated with notes and introduction by Kenneth Baxter Wolf. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1990. 203 p. (Translated texts for historians; v.9).
DP96 .C6613 1990

Isidore of Seville's history of the kings of the Goths, Vandals and Suevi / translated from the Latin with an introduction by Guido Donino and Gordon B. Ford. 2nd rev. ed. Luden: Brill, 1970. 45 p.
D135 .I831 1970

• This is a chronologically arranged history of the Visigoths from 256AD to 624AD

• Cassiodorus was a Roman senator and Benedictine monk

The Origins and deeds of the Goths: in English version / Charles Christopher Mierow.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1908. 100 p.
D137 .J9

• Translation of the Getica of Jordanes, a Christian Goth who wrote his account in 551AD.

• "A selection of the official correspondence drafted by Cassiodorus between the 500s and 530s on behalf of Theodore, Ostrogothic King of Italy, and his successors

The Book of pontiffs (liber pontificalis): the ancient biographies of the first ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715 / translated with an introduction by Raymond Davis. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1989. 125 p. (Translated texts for historians. Latin series; 5).
BX950 .E6 L63 1989

• Ninety papal biographies from St. Peter to AD 715. A mixture of fact and fiction

The Correspondence of Pope Gregory VII: selected from the Registrum. New York: Octagon Books, 1932. 212 p.
BX1187 .A41 1932

• most important ecclestastical reformer of the Middle Ages
• translated with introduction by E. Emerton

The Letters of Gerbert, with his papal privileges as Sylvester II. New York: Columbia University, 1961. 410 p.
BX1158 .A41

• elected Pope in 999, Gerbert was one of the most learned figures of his time

Memoirs of the Papal Court / John of Salisbury.  London: Nelson, 1956. 89, 109 p.
BX953 .J613

• translation of Historia pontificalis
• humanist, philosopher, and Bishop of Chartres. The Memoirs are an account of his years in Rome

Selected letters of Pope Innocent III concerning England (1198-1216). London: Nelson, 1953. 248 p.
BX1236 .A4 1953

• one of the most powerful medieval people
• translated into English

• Dukas was a Byzantine diplomat

The History of the World Conqueror / Ala-al-Din Ata-Malek Joveyni, translated from the text of Mirza Muhammad Qazvini by John Andrew Boyle. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1958.
DS22 .J871 1958

• History of Gingles Khan, by a Persian historian and governor of Baghdad. He began writing in 1252/3. This work is a valuable source of information on the Mongols

• Procopius was the chief historian of the reign of Tustinian (327-565 AD)

The Secret history of the Mongols: the origin of Chinghis Khan: an adaptation of the Yuan Ch'ao Pi Shih, based primarily on the English translation by Francis Woodman Cleaves / Paul Kahn.  San Francisco: North Point Press, 1984.
DS19 .Y781 1984

• "Part one presents 12 texts written between 636 and 847, including date-lists, king-lists, anecdotal chronicles, inscriptions and a contemporary memorandum of the Arab conquest. Part two contains a long extract from the Chronicle of AD 1234 with supplementary material from Michael the Syrian... Part three contains the last part of the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius and a related text from Edessa" - back cover

• Schiltberger was a Bavarian nobleman and traveller
• invaluable source for later medieval topography and history

• covers a century of Carolingian history (741-843)
• a comprehensive and detailed record by Nithard Charlemagne's grandson

The Chronicle of Hydatius and the Consularia Constantinopolitana: two contemporary accounts of the final years of the Roman Empire / Idatius. Bishop of Chaves, edited with an English translation by R.W. Burgess. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. 270 p.
DG319 .I3313 1993

The Chronicle of San Juan de la Pena: a fourteenth-century official history of the Crown of Aragon / Pedro IV, King of Aragon.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 141 p.
DP124.8 .P4313 1991

The Chronicle of the Slavs / Helmoldus, presbyter bosoviensis.  New York: Columbia University, 1935. 321 p.
DD145 .H481 1935

• covers church history, political history for Saxony in the 12th century

• history of the first half of the Hundred Years' War
• written between 1370-1404, it looks at events from the point of view of the nobility
• also available in French: Chroniques. Paris: Droz, 1972 (D113 .F76 A24 1972)

• contemporary account of the reign of Frederick Barbarossa, begun by his uncle, Bishop Otto, and continued by Otto's secretary
• covers the first eight years of Frederick's reign

The Deeds of Louis the Fat / Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.  Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1992.
DC88.5 .S8413 1992

• Suger was Abbot of Saint Denis in Paris, and a royal advisor to Louis VI and Louis VII
• key source for 12th century French history

The Emperor Julian: panegyric and polemic: Claudius Mamertinus, John Chrysostom, Ephrem the Syrian / edited by Samuel N.C. Lieu. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1986. 146 p. (Translated texts for historians. Greek series; 1).
DG317 .E4513 1986

Feudal Society in Medieval France: documents from the County of Champagne. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993. 162 p.
DC611 .C457 F48 1993

The Fourth book of the Chronicle of Fredegar, with its continuations / translated from the Latin with introduction and notes by J.M. Wallace-Hadrill.
DC64 .F781 1960

• Gregory became Bishop of Tours in 573 A.D. and was deeply involved in the political and religious life of Frankish Gaul
• most important library source for the history of the Franks in the sixth century

• Lombard history from 568-744 by a Benedictine monk

• A key source for the history of the medieval kingdom of Sicily

Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh century / Theodor Ernest Mommsen.  New York: Columbia University, 1962. 215 p.
D201.3 .M46

• text of The Deeds of Conrad II; The Life of the Emperor Henry IV; The Letters of Henry IV
• includes bibliography

• part of the Manchester medieval sources series
• translations of little known material
• aim is to present the essential sources of the past

The Letters of Lupus of Ferrieres / Servatus Lupus, Abbot of Ferrieres, translated [from several languages] with an introduction and notes by Graydon W. Regenos.
DC76.3 .L841 1966

The Memories of Philippe de Commynes / Philippe de Commynes.  Columbia: University of South Carolina, 1969-73. 2 v.
DC106.9 .C71 1969

• Commynes was a French diplomat. His Memoirs were just published in 1524
• covers the period 1464-1498, the reigns of Louis XI and Charles VIII

• account of the murder of Charles and its impact on Flemish society

Panegyric to the Emperor Theodosius / Latinus Pacatus Drepanius, translated with an introduction by C.E.V. Nixon. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1987. 122 p. (Translated texts for historians. Latin series; 2).
DG330 .P3313 1987

Seven French Chroniclers: Witnesses to History / P. Archambault (editor).  Syracuse: Syracuse U.P., 1974. 156 p.
DC36.9 .A72 1974

• excerpts with extensive commentary

The Wars of Frederick II against the Ibelins in Syria and Cyprus, by Philip de Novie (ft. 13th century). New York: Columbia University Press, 1936. 230 p.
D181 .P5 A3 1936

• translated into English with notes
• concerns the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem, 1099-1244

The Works of Liudprand of Cremona translated for the first time into English with an introduction by F.A. Wright / Bishop of Cremna Liudprand.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1930.
D117 .A2 L5 1930

• covers 10th century Europe and the East

THE CRUSADES

An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades / Usamah Ibn-Murshid ibn Munqidh. New York: Columbia University Press, 1929. 265 p.
DS97 .U713 1929

• translation by Philip K. Hitti

Arab Historians of the Crusades / F. Gabrieli (editor).  University of California Press, 1969.
D160 .A71 1969

• selections from Arabic histories

Chronicles of the Crusades / Geoffri Villehardouin and Jean Joinville.  Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
D151 .S52 1963

• includes Joinville's Life of Saint Louis
• both authors participated in the Fourth Crusade

Chronicles of the Crusades: Eye-witness Accounts of the War between Christianity and Islam / E.M. Hallam (editor).   New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1984. 400 p.
D151 .C47 1989

The Conquest of Constantinople / Robert de Clari, translated from the Old French of Robert de Clari by E.H. McNeal. New York: Octagon, 1966. 150 p.
D164 .A3 R621 1936

• account of the Fourth Crusade by a participant

The Conquest of Jerusalem and the Third Crusade: sources in Translation. Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1996. 196 p.
D163 .A3 C66 1996

• collection of works translated from the Old French

Contemporary sources for the Fourth Crusade / edited by Alfred J. Andrea. Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill, 2000. 330 p. (Medieval Mediterranean; v.29)
D164 .A3 C66 2000

• English translations, with introductions and notes, of Latin sources for the Fourth Crusade (1202-1204)

Crusader Syria in the thirteenth century: the Rothelin continuation of the History of William of Tyre with part of the Eracles or Acre text. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 1999. 156 p.
D172 .C78 1999

Crusaders as Conquerors: the Chronicle of Morea. Translated from the Greek, with notes and introduction by H.E. Laurier. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. 346 p.
DF623 .C56

The Crusades: a Documentary Survey / J.A. Brundage.  Milwaukee: Marguette University Press, 1962. 318 p.
D157 .B78 1962

The Crusades: Idea and Reality, 1095-1274 / L. Riley-Smith.  London: Arnold, 1981. xii, 191 p.
D151 .R54 1981

• contains a translation of Pope Gregory VII's bull Audita trimendi (1187) which inaugurated the Third Crusade

Documents on the Later Crusades, 1274-1580. Edited and translated by N. Housley. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 204 p.
D172 .D63 1996

• translations of documents originally in Old French, German, Italian, Spanish

The First Crusade: the chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres and other source materials / E. Peters (editor).  2nd ed. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, c1998.
D161.1 .F57 1998

• includes material from non-Christian sources as well as material from the Council of Clermont, Peter the Hermit, letters of the crusaders

A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea / William of Tyre. New York: Columbia U.P.; 1943. 2 v.
D152 .G96

• William, Archbishop of Tyre, wrote this history of Palestine from 614-1184, between 1169-1173

• a chronicle of the First Crusade and a history of the Latin States in the East

The Jews and the Crusaders: the Hebrew Chronicles of the First and Second Crusades / S. Edelberg (editor).  Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977. 186 p.
DS135 .G31 J48 1977

• four Hebrew chronicles that relate what happened to the Jewish communes in Europe during the Crusades

The Life of Saladin, by Baha al-Din (1137-1193). Ibn Shaddad, Baha-al Din. London: 1897. 420 p.
D198.4 .S2 I241 1897

The Recovery of the Holy Land / Pierre Dubois.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1956. 251 p.
D152 .D831

• Dubois was a French lawyer and political writer
• translation with introduction and notes

The Song of the Cathar wars: a history of the Albigensian Crusade / William of Tudela and an anonymous successor / Guillaume, de Tudele.  Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, c1996. 210 p.
PC3340 .G84 C413 1996

Walter the Chancellor's The Antiochene wars: a translation and commentary / Walter, the Chancellor.  Aldershot, England: Ashgate, c1999. 230 p.
D192 .W35 1999

FEUDALISM AND SOCIETY

Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and its Art Treasures. Edited, translated and annotated by Erwin Panofsky / Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979. 285 p.
NA5551 .S3 S74 1979

The Autobiography of Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Couay. London: Routledge, 1926. 223 p.
DC83 .G81

• valuable source of social and religious history (1053-1124)

• translation of contemporary accounts

Didascalicon: a Medieval Guide to the Arts / Hugh of St. Victor.  New York: Columbia University, 1961. 254 p.
B765 .H73 D53

• Hugh was a French theologian, mystic and scholar

English Rural Society, 1200-1350 / J.T. Titow.  London: Allen and Unwin, 1969. 208 p.
HN385.5 .T56 1969

• "intended for the undergraduate student [and] hopes to provide an introduction to the study of English rural society". (Pref)
• documents: pp. 106-205

• English translation of a book of conduct

• fifteenth century translation of the Latin practice of medicine found in Compendium Medicinal, written before about 1250 by Gilbertus Anglicus, England's first notable medical writer

• selections from original sources, translated into English

• parallel Latin text and English translation
• a household book was a document which would be presented at the end of each accounting year for the audit of the receipts and expenditures of the household in question

• translation of documents originally written in Latin, Hebrew, French, German, Portugues, Spanish, Italian

• collection of readings organized under four topics: Religion, folklore, superstition; Chronicles, science, art; Men and manners; Monks, friars, nuns
• valuable for cultural and social history

• short excerpts from original sources written between 500-1500 A.D.

Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World. New York: Columbia U.P., 1955. 458 p.
HF395 .L86

• excellent collection of primary sources, with critical introduction, notes and bibliography

Paston Letters / N. Davis (editor).  Oxford: Clarendon, 1958. 288 p.
DA240 .P33 1966

• 95 letters written by 26 people; provides a look at the daily lives of a Norfolk family, 1420-1500

• includes biographies, chronicles, letters, legal documents, literary material organized under five headings: Christendom; Clergy; Nobles; Peasants; Bourgeosie

Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West / G. Duby.  London: Arnold, 1968. 600 p.
HD1917 .D821 1968

• text and documents, including extensive bibliography
• documents: pp. 361-553

Source Book in Medieval Science / E. Grant (editor).  Cambridge, Mass: Harvard U.P., 1973. 864 p.
Q153 .G73 1973

• more than 190 source readings from the 7th to 15th centuries, from the whole range of science
• includes explanatory notes

University Records and Life in the Middle Ages / L. Thorndike.  New York: Columbia University Press, 1944. 476 p.
LA627 .T45

LAWS

The Burgundian Code: book of constitutions or law of Gundobad, additional enactsments / Katherine Fischer Drew, foreword by Edward Peters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, repr. 1973, c1949. 106 p.
KK511 .B8713 1972

Laws of the Alamans and Bavarians / Theodore John Rivers.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1977. 208 p.
KJ185 .L4413 1977

The Laws of the Salian Franks / Katherine Fischer Drew.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 256 p.
KK511 .L494 1991

Liber historiae Francorum / Bernard S. Bachrach.  Lawrence, Kansas: Coronado Press, 1973. 123 p.
DC3 .L5 B32 1973

The Lombard laws / Katherine Fischer Drew, foreword by Edward Peters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1973. 280 p.
KJ406 .E5 1972

The Rise of the Carolingians and the Liber historiae Francorum / Richard A. Gerberding.  Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987. 209 p.
DC64 .G47 1987

RELIGION

Anchoritic Spirituality: Ancrene Wisse and Associated Works. New York: Paulist Press, 1991. 487 p.
PR1120 .A57 1991

• English translation

The Anglo-Saxon missionaries in Germany: being the lives of SS. Willibrord, Boniface, Sturn, Leoba, and Lebuin, together with the Hodoeporicon of St. Willibald and a selection from the correspondence of St. Boniface / C.H. Talbot.  New York: Sheed & Ward, 1954.
BR754 .A1 T33

Basic Writings / Thomas Aquinas.  New York: Random House, 1945. 2 v.
BX890 .T45 E5 1945

• selections from the writings of one of the most important medieval theologians

The Birth of popular heresy / R.I. Moore.  London: Edward Arnold, 1975. 166 p.
BT1313 .M64 1975

Beguine spirituality / Fiona Bowie.  New York: Crossroad: 1990, c. 1989.
BV5080 .B43 1990

• mystical writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant

The Book of pontiffs (liber pontificalis): the ancient biographies of ten popes from A.D. 817-891 / translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis. Philadelphia, PA.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995.
BX950 .E6 D384 1995

The Book of pontiffs (liber pontificalis): the ancient biographies of the first ninety Roman Bishops to AD 715 / translated with an introduction by Raymond Davis. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, 1989.
BX950 .E6 L63 1989

Caesarius of Arles: life, testament, letters / Caesarius, of Arles, Saint, translated with notes and introduction by William E. Klingshirn. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. 155 p. (Translated texts for historians; v.19).
BR1720 .C2 C43 1994

• written shortly after Caesarius' death by five clerics who knew him.

Chronicle of the Election of Hugh, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds and Later Bishop of Ely. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1974. 208 p.
BX5107 .S5 T54 1974

• parallel Latin text and English translation

The Council of Constance: the Unification of the Church. New York: Columbia University, 1961. 562 p.
BX830 1414 L6

• includes Richental's Chronicles of the Council of Constance (1414-1418); Fillastrie's Diary of the Council of Constance, and Cerretano's Journals

Documents of the Christian Church / H.S. Bettison (editor).  London: Oxford U.P., 1963. 488 p.
BR141 .B4 1963

• "the selection aims to provide illustrations of the development of the Church and of her doctrines for the benefit of the general reader and the general student". (Pref)

• Oderic was the most remarkable chronicler of the Anglo-Norman world. His history combined a chronicle from the birth of Christ with a history of his own day
• Library has v. 2

Francis and Clare: the complete works / Francis of Assisi.  New York: Paulist Press, 1982. 256 p.
BX890 .F665 1982

From St. Francis to Dante: a translation of all that is of primary interest in the chronicle of the Franciscan Salimbene (1221-1288) together with notes and illustrations from other medieval sources / George Gordon Coulton.  2nd ed. D. Nutt: London, 1907. 445 p.
BX4705 .S16C

Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe: Documents in Translation / C. Peters.  Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980. 310 p.
PT1319 .P46 1980

Hilary of Poitiers, conflicts of conscience and law in the fourth-century Church: "Against Valents and Ursacius", the extant fragments, together with his "Leter to the Emperor Constantius" / Hilary, Saint, Bishop of Poitiers, translated into English with introductions and notes, from the edition by Alfred Feder in Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum vol. LXV (1916) pp. 41-205, by Lionel R. Wickham. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. 128 p. (Translated texts for historians; v.25).
BR65 .H72 E5 1997

History of the Archbishops of Hanburg-Bremen / Adamus Bremensis.  New York: Columbia University, 1959.
BR854 .A3

• Adam of Bremen's history (1075) is useful as a chronicle of events in parts of Northern Europe.

Letters of Bernard of Clairvaux / Bernard of Clairvaux.  Chicago: Regney, 1953. 530 p.
BX4700 .B5 A31 1953

• letters written by the founder of the Cistercian Order

The Letters of Heloise and Abelard / P. Abelard.  Penguin: Harmondsworth, 1974. 304 p.
PA8201 .A4 1974

• Abelard was a philosopher, teacher, author whose love affair with Heloise became a celebrated theme in European literature

The Little Flowers of St. Francis/The Mirror of Reflection / Francis of Assisi.  St. Bonaventure's Life of St. Francis. London: Dent, 1973. 397 p.
BX4700 .F63 E474 1973

The Lives of the eighth-century popes (Liber pontificalis): the ancient biographies of nine popes from AD 715 to AD 817 / translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, 1992. 260 p.
BX950 .E6 D38 1992

Lives of the Visigothic fathers / translated and edited by A.T. Fear. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997. 167 p. (Translated texts for historians; v.26).
BR1024 .L58 1997

• Consists of: Life and martyrdom of Saint Desiderius / King Sisebut -- The life of St. Aemilian the Confessor, called the hooded / Braulio of Saragossa -- The lives of the Fathers of Merida / [Paul the Deacon] -- On the lives of famous men / St. Ildefonsus of Toledo -- The life of St. Fructuosus of Braga / [Valerius of El Bierzo].
• for those interested in the development of the church in Visigothic Spain, and its relationship with the Visigothic slate

• Part I: History
• Part II: Documents, pp. 89-186

Meditations with Julian of Norwich / Julian, of Norwich.  Santa Fe, N.M.: Bear, 1986, c. 1983. 135 p.
BV4831 .J83 1983

The Register of Eudes of Rouen / Rigaldus, Odo, Abp. of Rouen.  New York: Columbia University, 1964. 779 p.
BX1529 .R5 B7

• information on manners, morals, and dress of Normandy in the 13th century
• glimpses of daily life, religious and secular

The Song of the Cathar wars: a history of the Albigensian Crusade / William of Tudela and an anonymous successor; translated by Janet Shirley. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press; Brookfield, Vt., USA: Ashgate Publ. Co., c1996. 210 p.
PC3340 .G84 C413 1996

The Triads / Gregory Palamas, Saint.  New York: Paulist Press, 1983. 172 p.
BX384.5 .G7313 1983

• Gregory was a Byzantine monk and spokesman for the mystical sect of Hesychasm

Unity, heresy, and reform, 1378-1460: the conciliar response to the great schism / C.M.D. Crowder.  London: E. Arnold, 1977. 212 p.
BX825 .U53 1977

Victor of Vita: history of the vandal persecution / Victor, Saint, Bp. of Vita, translated with notes and introduction by John Moorhead. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1992. 11o p. (Translated texts for historians; v.10).
BR1608 .A46 V5313 1992

• narrative of the Christian inhabitants of Africa prior to the time of Justinian

WOMEN

An Annotated Index of Medieval Women / A. Echols and M. Williams.  New York: Wiener, 1992. 635 p.
CT3220 .A66 1992 (2LBR)

• excellent bibliography with some references to primary sources

The Book of Margery Kempe: the Text from the Unique Ms. Owned by Colonel W. Butler-Bowdon / Margery Kemp, edited by S. B. Meech. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961, c1940. 441 p.
PR1119 .A2

The Dialogue / Catherine, of Siena, Saint.  New York: Paulist Press, 1980. 398 p.
BV5080 .C3613 1980

Harlots of the Desert: a Study of Repentance in Early Monastic Sources / Benedicta Ward.  Kalamazoo, Mich: Cistercian Publications, 1987. 113 p.
BR1713.5 .W37 1987

Hildegard of Bingen's Book of Divine Works with Letters and Songs / Hildegard, Saint, edited by Matthew Fox. Santa Fe, NM: Bear, 1987. 408 p.
BV5080 .H5413 1987

The Household Book of Dame Alice de Bryene. Bungay, Suffolk: Paradigm Press, 1984. 148 p.
TX17 .B79 1984

• daybook of expenses in the household of Alice de Bryene at Acton during the year ending September 28, 1413.
• shows the management of the household of a great lady at the time of Agincourt

The Lady as Saint: a Collection of French Hagiographic Romances of the Thirteenth Century. Edited by Brigitte Cazelles. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. 334 p.
PQ1302 .E5 L26 1991

The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Context / Glyn S. Burgess.  Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987. 245 p.
PQ1494 .L7 B87 1987

A Legend of Holy Women: a Translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legends of Holy Women  / Osbern Bokenham.  Notre Dame: Univesity of Notre Dame Press, 1992. 219 p.
PR1840 .B5 L4413 1992

Letters of the Queens of England, 1100-1547. Edited by Anne Crawford. Stroud: Alan Sutton, 1994. 250 p.
DA170 .L48 1994

Life and Selected Revelations / Bridget, of Sweden, Saint, edited with a preface by Marguerite Tjader Harris, translation by Albert Ryle Kezel. New York: Paulist Press, 1990. 350 p.
BX4700 .B62 E5 1990

The Life of Christina of Markyate: a Twelfth Century Recluse. Edited and translated by C.H. Talbot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987, c1959. 192 p. (Oxford medieval texts.)
BX4700 .C567 L53 1987

A Medieval Woman's Mirror of Honor: the Treasury of the City of Ladies / Christine, de Pisan, Translated by Charity Cannon Willard; edited by Madeleine Pelner Cosman. Tenefly, NJ: Bard Hall Press, 1989. 266 p.
PQ1575 .L6913 1989

Medieval English Prose for Women: the "Katherine group" and Ancrene Wisse. Edited by Bella Millett and Jocelyn Wogan-Browne. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990. 219 p.
PR1120 .M54 1990

Medieval women: a Social History of Women in England, 450-1500 / Henrietta Leyser.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 337 p.
HQ1147 .G7 L48 1995

• includes primary material

Passionate Women: Two Medieval Mystics / Elizabeth Dreyer.  New York: Paulist Press, 1989. 89 p.
BV5095 .A1 D73 1989

The Plays of Hrotswitha of Gendersheim. Translated by Larissa Bonfante. Chicago: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1986. 182 p.
PA8340 .H76 1987

Scivias / Hildegard, Saint, translated by Mother Columba Hart and Jane Bishop. New York: Paulist Press, 1990. 545 p. (Classics of Western spirituality.)
BV5080 .H5513 1990

Three Medieval Views of Women: La Contenance des fames, Le Bien des fames, Le Blasme des fames. Translated and edited by Gloria K. Fiero, Wendy Pfeffer, Mathe Allain. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1989. 168 p.
PQ1327 .D5 T47 1989

Women and Religion: a Feminist Sourcebook of Christian Thought / Elizabeth A. Clark.  New York: Harper, c1977. 296 p.
BT704 .C52 1977

Women in England, c. 1275-1525: documentary sources. Translated and edited by P.J.P. Goldberg. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995. 307 p.
DA170 .W66 1955

• primary material in English on childhood, adolescence, marriage, labour, prostitution, laws, recreation, religion

Women's Lives in Medieval Europe: a Sourcebook / E. Amt (editor).  New York: Routledge, 1993. 347 p.
HQ1143 .W65 1993 (2LB)

• collection of primary sources for the study of women's lives, 500-1510

Women's Writing in Middle English. Edited by Alexandra Barratt. London: Longman, 1992. 328 p.
PR1120 .W66 1992

The Writings of Medieval Women / M. Thiebaux.  New York: Garland, 1987. 250 p. (Garland Library of Medieval Literature, v. 14)
PN667 .W74 1987

• chronicles, biographies, letters, poetry
• includes introductory notes for each writer, and bibliographies

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