Categories of Medieval Culture

A. J. Gurevich (1924–2006) was a Russian medievalist historian. George L. Campbell (1912–2004) was a Scottish linguist who worked for the BBC World Service from 1939 until 1974.

Original Review of Categories of Medieval Culture: ‘…the author is revealed as a considerable scholar…throughout the reader is arrested by some unexpected idea which makes him see the period in a new light.’ C. Dyer, Journal of Historical Geography, Volume 12, Issue 1 (1986).

• 1.The Norman Conquest i) Domesday Book – Motives for its Formation; Extracts; Statistics ii). William of Malmesbury’s account of the Norman Conquest iii). An Estimate of William the Conqueror from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 2. The constitutional Struggle Between the Brons and the Monarchy 3. The Catholic Church 4. Trade Guilds and Universities 5. The Age of the Crusades i) The First Crusade: Extract from William of Malmesbury’s Chronicle of the Kings of England ii) Extracts from the Itinerarium Kambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis iii) Extracts from Joinville’s Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis iv) Extracts from the Voyages and Travels of ‘Sir John Maundeville’ v) Extracts from the Works of Roger Bacon 6. The Hundred Years’ War i) The Military Exploits: Froissart’s Account of the Battle of Creçy ii) The War and the Church 7. The Black Death i) The Statute of Labourers, 1349 ii) The Second Statute of Labourers, 1351 iii) Population of England as Recorded in the Poll-Tax Accounts of 1377 and 1381 iv) Extracts from the Prologue of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales v) The Vision of Piers Plowman: Prologue and Parts of Passus I 8. The Decline of Medieval Civilization i) A Selection from the Paston Letters ii) Extracts from the Stonor Papers 9. The End of the Middle Ages i) The Libel of English Policy ii) Extracts from More’s History of King Richard III