Readings in Medieval History, Volume II

Patrick J. Geary, Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author and editor of numerous books on medieval history.

• Preface Monasticism21. Cluniac Charters The Foundation Charter of Cluny Charters of the Grossi Family 22. Miracles of Saint Foy 23. Anselm Proslogion24. Bernard of Clairvaux Sermons on the Song of Songs 25. Guibert of Nogent Memoirs Lords and Vassals26. 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 Crusade29. Four Accounts Fulcher of ChartresSolomon Bar SimsonIbn Al-AthirAnna Comnena The Fourth Lateran Council30. Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 The Mendicants31. 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 Centuries36. Jacques Fournier Inquisition Records 37. Marsilius of Padua Discourses 38. The Book of Margery Kempe 39. The Black Death Gabriele de' MussisRalph of Shrewsbury Flores Temporum Ordinance of Laborers The Empire40. 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 Poland46. The Deeds of the Princes of the Poles 47. The Chronicle of Thietmar of Merseburg France48. Joinville Life of St. Louis 49. Enquêts of King Louis IX 50. Jean Froissart Chronicles 51. The Trial of Joan of Arc England52. Domesday Book 53. Richard fitz Nigel Dialogue of the Exchequer 54. Accounts of the Exchequer: An Example 55. Magna Carta The Articles 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 Peninsula58. Fuero de Cuenca 59. Las Siete Partidas Italy60. Giovanni Scriba Notary Book 61. Dialogues of Catherine of Siena 62. Florence: Catasto of 1427 63. Gregorio Dati Diary Western Europe and the Mongols64. The Journey of William of Rubruck 65. The Travels of Marco Polo Glossary Sources