{"product_id":"the-portable-medieval-reader-isbn-9780140150469","title":"The Portable Medieval Reader","description":"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.\" \u003cb\u003eThe Portable Medieval Reader\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003eAll 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 \u003cb\u003eColumbia Record\u003c\/b\u003e, is a broad and eminetly readable \"cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window.\"\u003c\/p\u003eThe Portable Medieval Reader - Edited by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin       Introduction\u003cbr\u003eChronological Table\u003cbr\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003ePart One: The Body SocialThe Body Social - John of Salisbury\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Orders of Men\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE CLERGY: THE PRAYERS AND THINKERS\u003cbr\u003eThe Monastic Ideal - Peter Damiani\u003cbr\u003eThe Cistercian Order - William of Malmesbury\u003cbr\u003eHow the Friars Came to Germany - Jordan of Giano\u003cbr\u003eA Preacher and His Miracles - Salimbene\u003cbr\u003eMonastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century - John Busch\u003cbr\u003eArchibishop Baldwin of Canterbury - Giraldus Cambrensis\u003cbr\u003eA Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham - John Capgrave\u003cbr\u003eAn Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy - Ordericus Vitalis\u003cbr\u003eThe Habits of Priests in Normandy - Odo of Rigaud\u003cbr\u003eStatutes for a College - Robert de Sorbonne\u003cbr\u003eHow the Student Should Behave - John of Garland\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE NOBILITY: THE FIGHTERS\u003cbr\u003eThe Function of Knighthood - John of Salisbury\u003cbr\u003eThe Chivalric Ideal - Díaz de Gámez\u003cbr\u003eThe Murder of a Feudal Lord - Galbert of Bruges\u003cbr\u003eThe Battle of Poitiers - Geoffrey le Baker\u003cbr\u003eA Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century - Jörg von Ehingen\u003cbr\u003eThe Rules of Courtly Love - Andreas Capellanus\u003cbr\u003eA Noble Household - Jean Froissart\u003cbr\u003eOffices in a Noble Household - John Russell\u003cbr\u003ePrivate Lives of the English Gentry - Stonor Letters\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE PEASANTS AND BURGHERS: THE WORKERS\u003cbr\u003eThe Feet of the Commonwealth - John of Salisbury\u003cbr\u003eThe Duties of Manorial Officers - Seneschaucie\u003cbr\u003eThe Peasant's Life - William Langland\u003cbr\u003eThe Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale - Reginald of Durham\u003cbr\u003eAdvice to a Norweigian Merchant - The King's Mirror\u003cbr\u003eThe Successful Surgeon - John Arderne\u003cbr\u003eThe Good Wife - The Goodman of Paris\u003cbr\u003eLife in London - Memorials of London\u003cbr\u003eFashions in Italy - Sacchetti\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE JEWS\u003cbr\u003ePapal Protection of the Jews - Pope Gregory X\u003cbr\u003eThe Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry - Jacob von Königshofen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eConflict, Protest, and Catastrophe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Revolt of the Commons in London - Roger of Wendover\u003cbr\u003eThe Peasants' Revolt in England - Anonimalle Chronicle\u003cbr\u003eMy Brother Man - Walther von der Vogelweide\u003cbr\u003ePiers Plowman's Protest - William Langland\u003cbr\u003eThe Waldensian Heretics - Bernard Gui\u003cbr\u003eThe Impact of the Black Death - Henry Knighton\u003cbr\u003eParis during the Hundred Years' War - Journal d'un bourgeois\u003cbr\u003ePart Two: The Christian Commonwealth\u003cb\u003eThe Spiritual Authority\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Superiority of the Spiritual Authority - Pope Bonfiace VIII\u003cbr\u003eThe Election and Coronation of a Pope - Adam of Usk\u003cbr\u003eThe Creation of Cardinals - Pope Pius II\u003cbr\u003eThe Fourth Lateran Council - Roger of Wendover\u003cbr\u003eA French Provincial Synod - Odo of Rigaud\u003cbr\u003eLetter to King Henry II - Thomas Becket\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Temporal Authorities\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Nature of a True Prince - John of Salisbury\u003cbr\u003eThe Independence of the Temporal Authority - Frederick Barbarossa\u003cbr\u003eThe Election and Coronation of an Emperor - Otto of Freising\u003cbr\u003eA German Poet's Attack on the Papacy - Walther von der Vogelweide\u003cbr\u003eThe Seven Electors - Adam of Usk\u003cbr\u003eA Picture of a Good Feudal King: Louis VI of France - Suger\u003cbr\u003eThe Coronation of Richard Lion Heart - Roger of Wendover\u003cbr\u003eThe Deposition and Death of Richard II - Adam of Usk\u003cbr\u003eAn Imperialist View of the Lombard Communes - Otto of Freising\u003cbr\u003eCity Politics in Siena - Pope Pius II\u003cbr\u003eA Petty Italian Tyrant - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eA Picture of a Tyrant - Pope Pius II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRenewal and Reform\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Recovery of the Holy Land: A Plan of Action and a Scheme for Reform - Pierre du Bois\u003cbr\u003eOn the Supremacy of General Councils in Church and Empire - Nicholas of Cusa\u003cbr\u003eA Plea for the Reform of Germany - Die Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds\u003cbr\u003eA Call for Common Action Against the Turks - Pope Pius II\u003cbr\u003ePart Three: The House of FameBohemond the Crusader - Anna Comnena\u003cbr\u003eON the Fame of Abelard - Heloise\u003cbr\u003eHeloise and Abelard: The Later Years - Peter the Venerable\u003cbr\u003eArnold of Brescia, a Twelfth-Century Revolutionary - John of Salisbury\u003cbr\u003eArnold of Brescia - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eHis Own Deeds - Giraldus Cambrensis\u003cbr\u003eHenry II, King of England - Giraldus Cambrensis\u003cbr\u003eThe Emperor Frederick II - Salimbene\u003cbr\u003eA Saintly King - Jean de Joinville\u003cbr\u003ePope Boniface VIII - Giovanni Villani\u003cbr\u003eDante Alighieri - Giovanni Villani\u003cbr\u003eInscription for a Portrait of Dante - Giovanni Boccaccio\u003cbr\u003eGiotto - Lorenzo Ghiberti\u003cbr\u003eLetter to Posterity - Francesco Petrarca\u003cbr\u003eCharles the Bold and the Fall of the House of Burgundy - Philippe de Commines\u003cbr\u003ePart Four: The World Picture\u003cb\u003eThe Frontiers of Europe: Conquest and Assimilation of Peoples\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnglo-Saxons and Normans - William of Malmesbury\u003cbr\u003eThe Character and Customs of the Irish - Giraldus Cambrensis\u003cbr\u003eThe Conversion and Subjugation of the Slavs - Helmold\u003cbr\u003eThe German Push to the East - Ordensritter und Kirchenfürsten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Near East: Pilgrimage and Crusade\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Great German Pilgrimage - Lambert of Hersfeld\u003cbr\u003eThe First Contact of Crusaders and Turks - Histoire anonyme de la première croisade\u003cbr\u003eA Greek View of the Crusaders - Anna Comnena\u003cbr\u003eAn Arab Opinion of the Crusaders - Usamah\u003cbr\u003eA Crusader's Criticism of the Greeks - Odo of Deuil\u003cbr\u003eWhy the Crusaders Failed - William of Tyre\u003cbr\u003eThe Expedition of the Grand Company to Constantinople - Ramón Muntaner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Far East: Missionaries and Merchants\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Tartar Menace to Europe - Matthew Paris\u003cbr\u003eA Mission to the Great Khan - William of Rubrud\u003cbr\u003eThe Labours of a Friar in Cathay - John of Monte Corvino\u003cbr\u003eA Last Mission to Cathay - John of Marignolli\u003cbr\u003eAdvice to Merchants Bound for Cathay - Francesco Pegolotti\u003cbr\u003eHenry the Navigator's Search for New Lands - Gomes de Azurara\u003cbr\u003ePart Five: The Noble Castle\u003cb\u003eThe Makers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePOETS AND STORY-TELLERS\u003cbr\u003eThe Vision of Viands - Aniar MacConglinne\u003cbr\u003eHymn for Good Friday - Peter Abelard\u003cbr\u003eDavid's Lament for Jonathan - Peter Abelard\u003cbr\u003eLet's Away with Study - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eWhen Diana Lighteth - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eTo Bel Vezer on Her Dismissal of the Poet - Bernart de Ventadorn\u003cbr\u003eDawn Song - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eThe Pretty Fruits of Love - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eThis Song Wants Drink - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eThe Love of Tristan and Iseult - Gottfried von Strassburg\u003cbr\u003eOf the Churl Who Won Paradise - Anonymous\u003cbr\u003eGather Ye Rosebuds - Romance of the Rose\u003cbr\u003eThe Canticle of the Sun - Saint Francis of Assisi\u003cbr\u003eOf the Gentle Heart - Guido Guinicelli\u003cbr\u003eMy Lady Looks So Gentle - Dante Alighieri\u003cbr\u003eBeauty in Women - Guido Cavalcanti\u003cbr\u003eOf the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Sinner - Jacopone da Todi\u003cbr\u003eMerciless Beauty: A Triple Roundel - Geoffrey Chaucer\u003cbr\u003eRoundel - Christine de Pisan\u003cbr\u003eMiracles of the Virgin - Johannes Herolt\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePAINTERS AND BUILDERS\u003cbr\u003eOf Pictures and Images - William Durandus\u003cbr\u003eHow to Represent the Arts and Sciences - Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte\u003cbr\u003eThe Identity of Individual Artists - Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de l'architecture\u003cbr\u003eAbbots as Builders - Gesta abbatum sancti Albani\u003cbr\u003eA Painter on His Craft - Cennino Cennini\u003cbr\u003eNature as the Supreme Authority - Leonardo da Vinci\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMUSICIANS\u003cbr\u003eCeltic Music and Music in General - Giraldus Cambrensis\u003cbr\u003eTwo Musical Friars - Salimbene\u003cbr\u003eAn Orchestra of the Fourteenth Century - Guillaume de Machaut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mirror of History\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Philosophy of History - Otto of Freising\u003cbr\u003eThe Problems and Motives of the Historian - William of Tyre\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Seven Liberal Arts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn Study and Teaching - Hugh of St. Victor\u003cbr\u003eThe Battle of the Arts - Henri d'Andeli\u003cbr\u003eRules of the University of Paris - Chartulary of the University of Paris\u003cbr\u003eFernando of Cordova, the Boy Wonder - Launoy\u003cbr\u003eThe Problems of a Christian Humanist - John of Salisbury\u003cbr\u003eThe Ancients and the Moderns - Walter Map\u003cbr\u003eA Plea for the Study of Languages - Roger Bacon\u003cbr\u003eStatute of the Council of Vienne on Languages - Chartulary of the University of Paris\u003cbr\u003eAn English Humanist - Richard de Bury\u003cbr\u003eIn Defence of Liberal Studies - Coluccio Salutati\u003cbr\u003eIn Praise of Greek - Leonardo Bruni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mirror of Nature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuestions on Nature - Adelard of Bath\u003cbr\u003eExperimental Science - Roger Bacon\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of a Woman Doctor in Paris - Chartulary of the University of Paris\u003cbr\u003eThe History of Surgery - Gui de Chauliac\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Mirror of Wisdom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Place of Logic in Philosophy - 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