The Portable Medieval Reader - Portable Library Open market edition

Marc Notes: Reprint of the ed., which was issued as 46 of the Viking portable library.; Includes bibliographical references. Table of Contents: Introduction Chronological Table Suggestions for Further Reading Part One: The Body Social The Body Social - John of SalisburyThe Orders of Men THE CLERGY: THE PRAYERS AND THINKERS The Monastic Ideal - Peter Damiani The Cistercian Order - William of Malmesbury How the Friars Came to Germany - Jordan of Giano A Preacher and His Miracles - Salimbene Monastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century - John Busch Archibishop Baldwin of Canterbury - Giraldus Cambrensis A Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham - John Capgrave An Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy - Ordericus Vitalis The Habits of Priests in Normandy - Odo of Rigaud Statutes for a College - Robert de Sorbonne How the Student Should Behave - John of Garland THE NOBILITY: THE FIGHTERS The Function of Knighthood - John of Salisbury The Chivalric Ideal - Diaz de Gamez The Murder of a Feudal Lord - Galbert of Bruges The Battle of Poitiers - Geoffrey le Baker A Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century - Jorg von Ehingen The Rules of Courtly Love - Andreas Capellanus A Noble Household - Jean Froissart Offices in a Noble Household - John Russell Private Lives of the English Gentry - Stonor Letters THE PEASANTS AND BURGHERS: THE WORKERS The Feet of the Commonwealth - John of Salisbury The Duties of Manorial Officers - Seneschaucie The Peasant's Life - William Langland The Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale - Reginald of Durham Advice to a Norweigian Merchant - The King's Mirror The Successful Surgeon - John Arderne The Good Wife - The Goodman of Paris Life in London - Memorials of London Fashions in Italy - Sacchetti THE JEWS Papal Protection of the Jews - Pope Gregory X The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry - Jacob von KonigshofenConflict, Protest, and Catastrophe A Revolt of the Commons in London - Roger of Wendover The Peasants' Revolt in England - Anonimalle Chronicle My Brother Man - Walther von der Vogelweide Piers Plowman's Protest - William Langland The Waldensian Heretics - Bernard Gui The Impact of the Black Death - Henry Knighton Paris during the Hundred Years' War - Journal d'un bourgeois Part Two: The Christian Commonwealth The Spiritual Authority The Superiority of the Spiritual Authority - Pope Bonfiace VIII The Election and Coronation of a Pope - Adam of Usk The Creation of Cardinals - Pope Pius II The Fourth Lateran Council - Roger of Wendover A French Provincial Synod - Odo of Rigaud Letter to King Henry II - Thomas BecketThe Temporal Authorities The Nature of a True Prince - John of Salisbury The Independence of the Temporal Authority - Frederick Barbarossa The Election and Coronation of an Emperor - Otto of Freising A German Poet's Attack on the Papacy - Walther von der Vogelweide The Seven Electors - Adam of Usk A Picture of a Good Feudal King: Louis VI of France - Suger The Coronation of Richard Lion Heart - Roger of Wendover The Deposition and Death of Richard II - Adam of Usk An Imperialist View of the Lombard Communes - Otto of Freising City Politics in Siena - Pope Pius II A Petty Italian Tyrant - Anonymous A Picture of a Tyrant - Pope Pius IIRenewal and Reform The Recovery of the Holy Land: A Plan of Action and a Scheme for Reform - Pierre du Bois On the Supremacy of General Councils in Church and Empire - Nicholas of Cusa A Plea for the Reform of Germany - Die Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds A Call for Common Action Against the Turks - Pope Pius II Part Three: The House of Fame Bohemond the Crusader - Anna Comnena ON the Fame of Abelard - Heloise Heloise and Abelard: The Later Years - Peter the Venerable Arnold of Brescia, a Twelfth-Century Revolutionary - John of Salisbury Arnold of Brescia - Anonymous His Own Deeds - Giraldus Cambrensis Henry II, King of England - Giraldus Cambrensis The Emperor Frederick II - Salimbene A Saintly King - Jean de Joinville Pope Boniface VIII - Giovanni Villani Dante Alighieri - Giovanni Villani Inscription for a Portrait of Dante - Giovanni Boccaccio Giotto - Lorenzo Ghiberti Letter to Posterity - Francesco Petrarca Charles the Bold and the Fall of the House of Burgundy - Philippe de Commines Part Four: The World Picture The Frontiers of Europe: Conquest and Assimilation of Peoples Anglo-Saxons and Normans - William of Malmesbury The Character and Customs of the Irish - Giraldus Cambrensis The Conversion and Subjugation of the Slavs - Helmold The German Push to the East - Ordensritter und KirchenfurstenThe Near East: Pilgrimage and Crusade The Great German Pilgrimage - Lambert of Hersfeld The First Contact of Crusaders and Turks - Histoire anonyme de la premiere croisade A Greek View of the Crusaders - Anna Comnena An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders - Usamah A Crusader's Criticism of the Greeks - Odo of Deuil Why the Crusaders Failed - William of Tyre The Expedition of the Grand Company to Constantinople - Ramon MuntanerThe Far East: Missionaries and Merchants The Tartar Menace to Europe - Matthew Paris A Mission to the Great Khan - William of Rubrud The Labours of a Friar in Cathay - John of Monte Corvino A Last Mission to Cathay - John of Marignolli Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay - Francesco Pegolotti Henry the Navigator's Search for New Lands - Gomes de Azurara Part Five: The Noble Castle The Makers POETS AND STORY-TELLERS The Vision of Viands - Aniar MacConglinne Hymn for Good Friday - Peter Abelard David's Lament for Jonathan - Peter Abelard Let's Away with Study - Anonymous When Diana Lighteth - Anonymous To Bel Vezer on Her Dismissal of the Poet - Bernart de Ventadorn Dawn Song - Anonymous The Pretty Fruits of Love - Anonymous This Song Wants Drink - Anonymous The Love of Tristan and Iseult - Gottfried von Strassburg Of the Churl Who Won Paradise - Anonymous Gather Ye Rosebuds - Romance of the Rose The Canticle of the Sun - Saint Francis of Assisi Of the Gentle Heart - Guido Guinicelli My Lady Looks So Gentle - Dante Alighieri Beauty in Women - Guido Cavalcanti Of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Sinner - Jacopone da Todi Merciless Beauty: A Triple Roundel - Geoffrey Chaucer Roundel - Christine de Pisan Miracles of the Virgin - Johannes Herolt PAINTERS AND BUILDERS Of Pictures and Images - William Durandus How to Represent the Arts and Sciences - Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte The Identity of Individual Artists - Recueil de textes relatifs a l'histoire de l'architecture Abbots as Builders - Gesta abbatum sancti Albani A Painter on His Craft - Cennino Cennini Nature as the Supreme Authority - Leonardo da Vinci MUSICIANS Celtic Music and Music in General - Giraldus Cambrensis Two Musical Friars - Salimbene An Orchestra of the Fourteenth Century - Guillaume de MachautThe Mirror of History A Philosophy of History - Otto of Freising The Problems and Motives of the Historian - William of TyreThe Seven Liberal Arts On Study and Teaching - Hugh of St. Victor The Battle of the Arts - Henri d'Andeli Rules of the University of Paris - Chartulary of the University of Paris Fernando of Cordova, the Boy Wonder - Launoy The Problems of a Christian Humanist - John of Salisbury The Ancients and the Moderns - Walter Map A Plea for the Study of Languages - Roger Bacon Statute of the Council of Vienne on Languages - Chartulary of the University of Paris An English Humanist - Richard de Bury In Defence of Liberal Studies - Coluccio Salutati In Praise of Greek - Leonardo BruniThe Mirror of Nature Questions on Nature - Adelard of Bath Experimental Science - Roger Bacon The Case of a Woman Doctor in Paris - Chartulary of the University of Paris The History of Surgery - Gui de ChauliacThe Mirror of Wisdom The Place of Logic in Philosophy - Peter Abelard The End of Man - Saint Thomas Aquinas On Learned Ignorance - Nicholas of CusaThe Vision of God The Soul Complains to God - Jacopone da Todi A Crying Mystic - Margery Kempe The Vision of God - Nicholas of Cusa AcknowledgmentsPublisher Marketing: In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." "The Portable Medieval Reader" assembles an entire chorus of those voices - of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars - that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the "Columbia Record," is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window."Publisher Marketing: In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices--of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars--that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window." Review Citations:

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