Medieval Church
List of sources by chapter
Chapter 2
2.1 Athanasius confirms the New Testament Canon
‘Athanasius, Letter 39’, in S. Athanasius, Festal Epistles of S. Athanasius Bishop of Alexandria, Translated from the Syriac with Notes and Indices, trans. Henry Griffin Williams, (Oxford: F. and J. Rivington, 1854), 137–139.
2.2Constantine’s Conversion
Excerpts from Eusebius, The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine, in The Greek Ecclesiastical Historians of The First Six Centuries of The Christian Era (London: Samuel Bagster And Sons, 1845), 25-30.
2.3Early Christian Creeds
‘The Nicene Creed of 325’ and ‘The Constantinopolitan Creed of 381’,in Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom with a History and Critical Notes (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919), 28-29.
Chapter 3
3.1The Qu’ran
Excerpt from The Qur’an, trans. E. H. Palmer, The Sacred Books of the East Vol. VI, ed. F. Max Müller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1880), 1, 19-26.
3.2Pope Gregory the Great and the Lombards
Excerpts from Paul the Deacon, History of the Langobards, trans. William Dudley Foulke (Philadelphia: The Department of History University of Pensylvania, 1907), 153-158.
3.3The Rule of Benedict on Property
Read chapters 32 and 33 of the Rule of Benedict, from the modern English translation at the official website of the Order of Saint Benedict:
Chapter 4
4.1St. Patrick’s Confession
Excerpts from ‘St. Patrick’s Confession’, inDaniel De Vinné, ed., History of the Irish Primitive Church together with The Life of St. Patrick and his Confession in Latin, with a parallel translation (New York: 1870), 207-214.
4.2St. Augustine of Canterburyconverts the pagans
Excerpts from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England: A Revised Translation, translated by A. M. Sellar (London: George Bell and Sons, 1907), 42-73.
4.3The Synod of Whitby
Excerpts from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of England: A Revised Translation, translated by A. M. Sellar (London: George Bell and Sons, 1907), 192-201.
Chapter 5
5.1The Missionary Work of St. Boniface
Excerpts from Willibald, The Life of Saint Boniface, trans. George W. Robinson (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916), 40-45.
5.2The Frankish Kingdom and the Roman Church
Excerpts from Willibald, The Life of Saint Boniface, trans. George W. Robinson (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1916), 69-76.
5.3Pippin’s Donation
Excerpts from the Liber Pontificalis I, in Oliver Thatcher and Edgar McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in The Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 101-105.
Chapter 6
6.1Charlemagne crowned Emperor
Excerpts from Einhard, Life of Charlemagne, trans. Samuel Epes Turner (New York: American Book Company, 1880), 65-66.
6.2 The Apostles’ Creed
‘The Apostles’ Creed’, in Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom with a History and Critical Notes, vol. II (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1919), 45.
6.3The Monastic Rule of St. Columbanus
Excerpts from the Rule of St. Columbanus, in George Metlake, The Life and Writings of Saint Columban (Philadelphia: The Dolphin Press, 1914), 71-76.
6.4Introitus: ‘Gaudeamus omnes’, Anonymous, plainchant, mode I
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6.5Communio: ‘Angeli, Archangeli’, Anonymous, plainchant, mode II
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Chapter 7
7.1St. Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine
Excerpts from Aurelius Augustine, The Works of Aurelius Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, vol. 9, ed. Marcus Dods (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1892), 55-56.
7.2Concerning the Body and Blood of the Lord
Ratramnus of Corbie, ‘Concerning the Body and Blood of the Lord’, inMonk of Corbie, The Book of Bertram, trans. W.F. Taylor (London: Simpkin Marshall & Co., 1880), 6-13.
Chapter 8
8.1Division of the Carolingian Empire
Nithard, ‘The Strassburg Oaths’ (842), and Annales Bertiniani, ‘The Treaty of Verdun’ (843), in Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal eds., A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating The History of Europe in The Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 60-64.
8.2The Foundation Charter of Cluny
‘Foundation Charter of Cluny’, in Ernest F. Henderson, trans., Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (London: George Bell and Sons, 1905), 329-333.
8.3Olaf Trygvesson is baptized
Excerpts from Snorri Sturlason, The Heimskringla: A History of The Norse Kings, trans. Samuel Laing (London: Norrcena Society, 1906), 151-152.
8.4Odin and Christ
Excerpt from ‘Rúnatal’, inThe Elder or Poetic Edda, commonly known as Sæmund's Edda, part I: The Mythological Poems, edited and translated by Olive Bray (London, 1908), pp. 99-100; and a rendering by Phillip C. Adamo of Harald’s Stone, based on the tenth-century runestone in Jelling, Denmark.
Chapter 9
9.1The Peace and Truce of God
‘Peace of God, proclaimed in the Synod Of Charroux’ (989), ‘Peace Of God, proclaimed by Guy of Anjou, Bishop of Puy’ (990), ‘Truce of God, made for the Archbishopric of Arles’ (1035-41), ‘Truce Of God For The Archbishoprics of Besancox And Vienne’ (ca, 1041), ‘Truce for the Bishopric of Terouanne’ (1063), in Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 412-418.
9.2Pope Leo the Great on the election of bishops
‘Leo the Great, excerpts from Letter XIV’, in Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, eds., A Select Library of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, 2nd series, volume 12 (New York: The Christian Literature Company, 1895), 18.
Chapter 10
10.1The Synod of Sutri
‘An account of the Synod pf Sutri’, in Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 121-124.
10.2Lay Investiture: The Letters Of Henry IV and Gregory VII
‘Letter of Gregory VII to Henry IV’ (December 1075), ‘Henry IV’s Answer to Gregory VII’ (January 24, 1076), ‘Henry IV is deposed by Gregory VII’ (1076), in Ernest F. Henderson, Trans., Select Historical Documents Of The Middle Ages (London: George Bell And Sons, 1905), 367-373, 376-77.
10.3The Concordat of Worms (1122)
‘The Promise of Calixtus II’ and ‘The Promise of Henry V’, in Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal, A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in The Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 164-166.
Chapter 11
11.1Urban II at the Council of Clermont
Excerpts from the accounts of the Council of Clermont by Fulcher of Chartres and Robert the Monk, in Oliver J. Thatcher and Edgar H. McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Medieval History: Selected Documents Illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 513-521.
11.2The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
Excerpts from Geoffrey de Villehardouin (1160 – c. 1212), ‘The Sack of Constantinople’, in Sir Frank Marziales, trans., Memoirs of the Crusades (New York: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915), 58-66.
11.3 ‘Jacobus et Johannes’, Codex Calixtinus (12th century)
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11.4‘Vocavit Jhesus,’ Codex Calixtinus (12th century)
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Chapter 12
12.1The Canonization Elizabeth of Thuringia
‘Pope Gregory IX’s bull canonizing Elizabeth of Thuringia’ (1235), in Count de Montalembert, Life of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary: Duchess of Thuringia, Francis Deming Hoyt, trans., (New York: Longmans, Green, and co., 1904), 414-420.
12.2The Saladin Tax
‘Henry II, Ordinance of the Saladin Tax (1188), in George Burton Adams and H. Morse Stephens, eds., Select Document of English Constitutional History (London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd., 1916), 27-28.
12.3Antiphon: ‘O Gloriosissimi lux’, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
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12.4Responsory: ‘O nobilissima viriditas’, Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
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Chapter 13
13.1Francis of Assisi and the first Nativity scene
Excerpts from Brother Thomas of Celano, The Lives of S. Francis of Assisi, trans. A. G. Ferrers Howell (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), 82 – 85.
13.2Francis of Assisi and the Stigmata
Excerpts from Brother Thomas of Celano, The Lives of S. Francis of Assisi, trans. A. G. Ferrers Howell (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), 92–95.
13.3The Piety of King Louis IX
Excerpts from the Sire De Joinville, Saint Louis, King of France, trans. James Hutton (London: Sampson Low, Marston, And Company, 1892), 199, 205 - 207, 208 - 210.
13.4Cantiga #252, Cantigas de Santa Maria (13th-14th century)
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Chapter 14
14.1Bernard of Clairvaux performs a miracle
Excerpts from the Acta Sanctorum, transl. in Edward L. Cutts, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages (London, 1872), pp. 11-12.
14.2The Lactation of Bernard
Rendering by Phillip C. Adamo of the ‘Lactation of Bernard’, based on the image at Oxford, University of Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Douce 264, fol. 038v, 16th century.
14.3The Origin of the Templars
Excerpts from William Of Tyre, History Of Deeds Done Beyond The Sea, inOliver J. Thatcher, Edgar H. McNeal, eds., A Source Book for Mediæval History: Selected Documents Illustrating The History of Europe in The Middle Age (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1907), 492 – 494.
Chapter 15
15.1Waldo of Lyons
‘Waldo Of Lyons’ (1218), in James Hervey Robinson, ed., 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 (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904), 380-381.Excerpts from Richard, Monk of Cluny, Chronicle, in Pius Melia, ed., The Origin Persecutions and Doctrines of The Waldenses: From Documents, Many Now The First Time Collected and Edited (London: James Toovey, 1870), 2-3.
15.2The Albigenses or Cathars
Excerpts from Bernard of Gui, Inquisitor's Guide (early 14th century), in James Hervey Robinson, ed., 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 (Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904), 381-383.
Chapter 16
16.1The Franciscans receive Papal approval
Excerpts from Brother Thomas of Celano, The Lives of S. Francis of Assisi, trans. A. G. Ferrers Howell (London: Methuen & Co., 1908), 31 – 33.
16.2Clare of Assisi
Excerpts rom Charlotte Balfour, transl., Life and legend of the Lady Saint Clare (London and New York: Longmans, Green and co., 1910), 41-46.
16.3‘Sia laudato San Francesco’ Anonymous (13th century)
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16.4‘Beatus Franciscus’ Jeronimo de Aliseda (1548-1591)
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Chapter 17
17.1Peter Abelard, The Story of his Misfortunes
Excerpts from Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum: The Story of My Misfortunes, Henry Adams Bellows, trans. (Saint Paul: Thomas A. Boyd, 1922), 1-2, 10-13.
17.2Life of Students at Paris
Excerpts from James of Vitry, Historia Occidentalis, in Dana Carleton Munro, ed., Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History: The Mediæval Student (Philadelphia: The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1895), 18-19.
17.3Privilege of Philip Augustus in favour of the students of Paris
‘Philip Augustus, Chartularium universitatis Parisiensis I’, in Dana Carleton Munro, ed., Translations and Reprints from the Original Sources of European History: The Mediæval Student (Philadelphia: The Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1895), 4-6.
Chapter 18
18.1St. Augustine of Hippo on Sin
Excerpts from Augustine, A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins, and on the Baptism Of Infants, in Peter Holmes, trans., The Anti-Pelagian Works of Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, vol. 1 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1872), 10-13.
18.2Caesarius of Heisterbach on Confession and Trial by Ordeal
Excerpts from Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogus Miraculorum, in G.G. Coulton, ed., Life in the Middle Ages (New York: Macmillan, c.1910), vol 1, 73-74.
Chapter 19
19.1Boccaccio on the Plague
Excerpts from Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio: including forty of its hundred novels, trans. Henry Morley (London: G. Routledge and Sons, 1886), 10-14.
19.2Pope Boniface VIII, Clericis Laicos (1296)
Excerpts from Henry Gee, William John Hardy, eds., Documents Illustrative of English Church History (London: MacMillan and Co., 1896), 87-89.
Chapter 20
20.1The Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
‘The Pragmatic Sanction’, in Frederic Austing Ogg, ed., A Source Book of Mediæval History: Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions From The German Invasions to The Renaissance (New York: American Book Company, 1908), 395-397.
20.2Concerning the burning of heretics (1401)
Excerpts from ‘De Heretico Comburendo’, in Guy Carleton Lee, ed., Source-book of English History (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1901), 214-217.
20.3Saint Catherine of Sienna Exorcising a Possessed Woman
Rendering by Phillip C. Adamo of Girolamo di Benvenuto (1470-1524), ‘Saint Catherine of Sienna Exorcising a Possessed Woman’, ca. 1500-1510, at the Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.