Reading the Middle Ages : sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world
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Reading the Middle Ages : sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world
Broadview Press, c2006
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Please Note: This edition is now sold out and there is a new second edition available - ISBN 9781442606029. Following her highly acclaimed A Short History of the Middle Ages, Barbara H. Rosenwein now presents a unique edited collection of documents and readings. Spanning the period from c.300 to c.1500, the ambitious Reading the Middle Ages incorporates in a systematic fashion Islamic and Byzantine materials alongside Western readings. Reading the Middle Ages is also available in two volumes for those who have a full year to teach the middle ages. These volumes split at Chapter 5, which is contained in both Volume I and Volume II.
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- Maps Plates Preface Abbreviations and Signs Chapter 1. Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300-c.600) Imperial Politics 1.1 Christianity becomes official: Edict of Milan (313) 1.2 Christian history: Eusebius, The History of the Church (c.325) 1.3 Imperial legislation: The Theodosian Code (438) 1.4 The attraction of classical traditions: Procopius, History of the Wars (c.550) Heresy and Orthodoxy 1.5 The Donatists: A Donatist Sermon (c.318) 1.6 Orthodoxy's declaration: The Nicaean Creed (325) Patristic Thought 1.7 Relating this world to the next: Augustine, The City of God (413-426) 1.8 Biblical exegesis: Pope Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job (591) 1.9 Monasticism: The Benedictine Rule (c.540) Saints 1.10 The eremetical life: Athanasius, Life of St. Antony of Egypt (356-372) 1.11 The active life: Sulpicius Severus, The Life of St. Martin of Tours (396) 1.12 St. Radegund as ascetic: Venantius Fortunatus, The Life of St. Radegund (before c.600) 1.13 St. Radegund as relic collector: Baudonivia, The Life of St. Radegund (c.600) Barbarian Kingdoms 1.14 The conversion of Clovis: Bishop Avitus of Vienne, Letter to Clovis (508?) 1.15 Church legislation in Gaul: The Council of Orleans (511) 1.16 Royal legislation in Spain: The Visigothic Code (5th-7th c.) 1.17 Christian history/personal history: Gregory of Tours, History (576-594) Timeline for Chapter 1 Chapter 2. The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600-c.750) The Resilience of Byzantium 2.1 The culture of the small independent farmer: The Farmer's Law (8th c.?) 2.2 Byzantine village life and the education of a saint: The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon (7th c.) 2.3 The argument for icons: John of Damascus, On Holy Images (c.730) 2.4 The iconoclastic argument: The Synod of 754 2.5 Vilifying the iconoclasts: The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (before 818) The Formation of the Islamic World 2.6 Pre-Islamic Arabic poetry: Al-A'sha, Bid Hurayra Farewell (before 625) 2.7 The sacred text: Qur'an Suras 1, 53:1-18, 81, 87, 96, 98 (c.610-622) 2.8 Umayyad diplomacy: The Treaty of Tudmir (713) 2.9 Taxation: A Tax Demand in Egypt (710) 2.10 Civil servants: 'Abd al-Hamid, Letter to the Secretaries (before 750) The Impoverished but Inventive West 2.11 Creating a Roman Catholic identity for England: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731) 2.12 The private penitential tradition: Penitential of Finnian (late 6th c.) 2.13 A modern martyr in Francia: The Passion of Leudegar (680s) 2.14 The settlement of disputes: Judgment of Childebert III (709 or 710) 2.15 Reforming the Continental Church: Letters to Boniface (723-726) 2.16 The papacy: The Life of Gregory II in The Book of the Pontiffs (c.730) Timeline for Chapter 2 Chapter 3: Creating New Identities (c.750-c.900) The Material Basis of Society 3.1 Manors in the West: Polyptyque of the Church of Saint Mary of Marseille (814-815) 3.2 Commerce in the Islamic world: Abu 'Uthman Al-Jahiz, Avarice and the Avaricious (850s?) 3.3 Byzantine guilds: The Book of the Prefect (912) Map 3.1 Major European Slave Exports (700-900) 3.4 The sale of a slave in Italy: A Contract of Sale (724) Byzantium, Central Europe, and Eastern Europe 3.5 The post-iconoclastic Church: Photius, Letter to the Bulgar Khan (864-867?) 3.6 The conversion of the Slavs: Constantine/Cyril, Prologue to the Gospel (863-867) The Abbasid Reconfiguration 3.7 An early view of the Prophet: Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad (754-767) 3.8 The "New Poetry": Abu Nuwas, Youth and I (c.800) 3.9 Hadith: Al-Bukhari, On Fasting (9th c.) 3.10 Law: Abu Dawud al-Sijistani, Compilation of the Jurisprudential Responses of Ahmad ibn Hanbal (before 888) 3.11 Fiction: Sindbad the Sailor (9th c.) Al-Andalus 3.12 The minority?that is, Christian?view: Chronicle of Albelda (c.883) 3.13 An Islamic Andalusian voice: Ibn 'Abd Rabbihi, I Have Never Seen (before 940) 3.14 A Jewish poet in al-Andalus: Dunash ben Labrat, There Came a Voice (mid-10th c.) The Western Church and Empire 3.15 The imperial claims of the papacy: The Donation of Constantine (760s) 3.16 Charlemagne as the light of the world: Anonymous, Once Again my Burdened Anchor (early 9th c.) 3.17 Modeling the state on Old Testament Israel: The Admonitio Generalis (789) 3.18 Imperial administration: Double Capitulary of Thionville for the missi (805) 3.19 Ideals of family and fidelity: Dhuoda, Handbook for her Son (841-843) Timeline for Chapter 3 Chapter 4: Political Communities Reordered (c900-c.1050) Regionalism: Its Advantages and Its Discontents 4.1 Fragmentation in the Islamic world: Al-Tabari, The Defeat of the Zanj Revolt (c.915) 4.2 The powerful in the Byzantine countryside: Romanus Lecapenus, Novel (934) 4.3 Donating to Cluny: Cluny's Foundation Charter (910) and various charters of donation (10th-11th c.) 4.4 Love and complaints in Angouleme: Agreements between Count William of the Aquitanians and Hugh of Lusignan (1028) 4.5 The Peace of God at Bourges: Andrew of Fleury, The Miracles of St. Benedict (1040-1043) 4.6 A castellan's revenues and properties in Catalonia: Charter of Guillem Guifred (1041-1075) Byzantine Expansion 4.7 Military life: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Military Advice to His Son (950-958) 4.8 Imperial rule: Michael Psellus, Portrait of Basil II (c.1063) Scholarship across the Islamic World 4.9 Political theory: Al-Farabi, The Perfect State (c.940-942) 4.10 Logic: Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Treatise on Logic (1020s or 1030s) Kings, Queens, and Princes 4.11 Kievan Rus: The Russian Primary Chronicle (c.1113) 4.12 Hungary: King Stephen, Laws (1000-1038) 4.13 An Ottonian queen: The "Older Life" of Queen Mathilda (973-974) 4.14 An Ottonian king: Thietmar of Merseberg, The Accession of Henry II (1013-1018) Northern Europe and Beyond 4.15 Literacy: King Alfred, Prefaces to Gregory the Great's Pastoral Care (c.890) 4.16 Literature: Battle of Maldon (not long after 991) 4.17 Law: King Aethelred, Law Code (1008) Plate 4.1 Christianity comes to Denmark: The Jelling Monument (960s) 4.18 The making of Iceland: Ari Thorgilsson, The Book of the Icelanders (c.1125) Timeline for Chapter 4 Chapter 5: The Expansion of Europe (c.1050-c.1150) Maps Plate 5.1 The West: T-O Map (12th c.) Plate 5.2 The West: The Image of the World (late 12th c.) Plate 5.3 The Islamic world: Directions to Mecca (12th c.) Plate 5.4 Byzantium: The Inhabited World, from a copy of Ptolemy's Geography (13th c.) Commercial Take Off 5.1 Cultivating new lands: Frederick of Hamburg's Agreement with Colonists from Holland (1106) 5.2 Local markets: Ibn Jubayr, A Market near Aleppo (1184) 5.3 The role of royal patronage: Henry I, Privileges for the Citizens of London (1130-1133) Church Reform 5.4 The royal view: Henry IV, Letter to Gregory VII (1075) 5.5 The papal view: Gregory VII, Letter to Hermann of Metz (1076) The Crusades and Reconquista 5.6 Martyrs in the Rhineland: Rabbi Eliezer b. Nathan ("Raban"), O God, Insolent Men (early-to-mid-12th c.) 5.7 The Greek experience: Anna Comnena, The Alexiad (c.1148) 5.8 A Westerner in the Holy Land: Stephen of Blois, Letter to His Wife (March 1098) 5.9 The Muslim reaction: Ibn al-Athir, The First Crusade (13th c.) 5.10 The crusade in Spain and Portugal: The Conquest of Lisbon (1147-1148) The Norman Conquest of England 5.11 The pro-Norman position: William of Jumieges, The Deeds of the Dukes of the Normans (c.1070) 5.12 The native position: "Florence of Worcester," Chronicle of Chronicles (early 12th c.) Plate 5.5 The Conquest depicted: The Bayeux Tapestry (end of the 11th c.) 5.13 Exploiting the Conquest: Domesday Book (1087) The Twelfth-Century Renaissance 5.14 Logic: Abelard, Glosses on Porphyry (c.1100) Plate 5.6 Gilbert of Poitiers, Gloss on Psalm 101 (c.1117) 5.15 Biblical scholarship: Gilbert of Poitiers, Gloss on Psalm 101 (c.1117) Plate 5.7 The "standard gloss": Glossa Ordinaria on Psalm 101 (1130s) 5.16 Rethinking the religious life: Heloise, Letter (1130s) 5.17 Medicine: The Trotula (c.1250, based on 12th-c. sources) Cluniacs and Cistercians 5.18 The Cistercian view: St. Bernard, Apologia (1125) 5.19 The Cluniac view: Peter the Venerable, Miracles (mid 1130s-mid 1150s) Timeline for Chapter 5 Chapter 6: Institutionalizing Aspirations (c.1150-c.1250) New Heroes in the East 6.1 Saladin: Ibn Shaddad, The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin (1198-1216) 6.2 The lone Byzantine warrior: Digenis Akritis (12th c.) The Crusades Continue 6.3 The Northern Crusade: Helmold, The Chronicle of the Slavs (1167-1168) 6.4 The Fourth Crusade: Nicetas Choniates, O City of Byzantium (c.1215) Grounding Justice in Royal Law 6.5 English common law: The Assize of Clarendon (1166) 6.6 English litigation on the ground: The Costs of Richard of Anstey's Law Suit (1158-1163) 6.7 The legislation of a Spanish king: The Laws of Cuenca (1189-1193) Local Laws and Arrangements 6.8 A manorial court: Proceedings for the Abbey of Bec (1246) 6.9 Doing business: A Genoese societas (1253) 6.10 Women's work: Guild Regulations of the Parisian Silk Fabric Makers (13th c.) 6.11 Men's work: Guild Regulations of the Shearers of Arras (1236) Bureaucracy at the Papal Curia 6.12 The growth of papal business: Innocent III, Letters (1200-1202) 6.13 Petitioning the papacy: Register of Thomas of Hereford (1281) 6.14 Mocking the papal bureaucracy: The Gospel according to the Marks of Silver (c.1200) Confrontations 6.15 Henry II and Becket: Constitutions of Clarendon (1164) 6.16 Emperor and pope: Diet of Besancon (1157) 6.17 King and nobles: Magna Carta (1215) Vernacular literature 6.18 Epic poetry: Raoul de Cambrai (1180-1223) 6.19 A troubadour poem of love: Jaufre Rudel, When Days are Long in May (c.1125-1150) 6.20 A poem of war: Bertran de Born, I Love the Joyful Time (12th c.) 6.21 Song of a trobairitz: Comtessa de Dia, I've Been in Great Anguish (c.1200?) 6.22 Fabliaux: Browny, the Priest's Cow and The Priest Who Peeked (13th c.) New Developments in Religious Sensibilities 6.23 Disciplining and purifying Christendom: Decrees of Lateran IV (1215) 6.24 Art and architecture as religious devotion: Suger, On What was Done under his Administration (1148-1149) 6.25 Devotion through poverty: Peter Waldo in the Chronicle of Laon (1173-1178) 6.26 Devotion through mysticism: Jacques de Vitry, The Life of Mary of Oignies (1213) 6.27 The mendicant movement: St. Francis, The Canticle to Brother Sun (1225) Religious Feeling turned Violent 6.28 The expulsion of the Jews from Bury St. Edmunds: Jocelin of Brakelond, Chronicle (1190-1202) 6.29 Burning heretics in Germany: Chronicle of Trier (1231) Timeline for Chapter 6 Chapter 7: Discordant Harmonies (c.1250-c.1350) The Mongols 7.1 The Mongols speak: The Secret History of the Mongols (first half of the 13th c.) 7.2 A Mongol reply to the pope: Guyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1246) 7.3 Accommodations: Mengu-Temir Khan, Charter to Protect the Russian Church (1308) 7.4 The Hungarian king bewails the Mongol invasions. Bela IV, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (c.1250) 7.5 Mongol trade routes: Marco Polo, The Travels (c.1300) Transformations in the Cities 7.6 The popolo gains power: The Ghibelline Annals of Piacenza (1250) 7.7 The Hanseatic League: Decrees of the League (1260-1264) 7.8 Hospitals: Charters for Bury St. Edmunds (1248-1272) 7.9 Famine at Constantinople: Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople, Letter (1306-1307) Heresies and Persecutions 7.10 Inquisition: Jacques Fournier, Episcopal Register (1318-1325) 7.11 Procedures for isolating lepers: Sarum manual (based on materials from c.1360s) 7.12 Jews in England: Statute of the Jewry (1275) and Petition of the "Commonalty" of the Jews (shortly after 1275) Rulers and Ruled 7.13 A charismatic ruler: Joinville, The Life of St. Louis (1272) 7.14 The commons participate: Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295) 7.15 The pope throws down the gauntlet: Boniface VIII, Clericis Laicos (1296) 7.16 The pope reacts again: Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam (1302) 7.17 The French king responds to Boniface: William of Plaisians, Charges of Heresy against Boniface VIII (1303) 7.18 Assembly of the Estates General in Paris: Grand Chronicles of France (1314) Modes of Thought, Feeling, and Devotion 7.19 Scholasticism: Thomas Aquinas, Summa against the Gentiles (1259-1264) 7.20 Mysticism: Meister Eckhart, Sermon 101 (1298-1305) 7.21 Italian comes into its own: Dante, Inferno (Canto 5) (Paolo and Francesca)
- Paradiso (Canto 22) (Meeting with St. Benedict) (1313-1321) 7.22 Romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (last quarter of 14th c.) 7.23 Medieval drama: Directions for an Annunciation play (14th c.) 7.24 The feast of Corpus Christi: The Life of Juliana of Mont-Cornillon (1261-1264) Timeline for Chapter 7 Chapter 8: Catastrophe and Creativity (c.1350-c.1500) The Plague 8.1 A medical view: Nicephorus Gregoras, Roman History (c.1350) 8.2 Processions at Damascus: Ibn Battuta, Travels (before 1368) 8.3 Prayers at York: Archbishop William, Letter to His Official at York (July 1348) 8.4 Blaming the Jews: Heinrich von Diessenhoven, On the Persecution of the Jews (c.1350) 8.5 A legislative response: Ordinances against the Spread of Plague at Pistoia (1348) The Ottomans 8.6 A Turkish hero: Ashikpashazade, Osman Comes to Power (late 15th c.) 8.7 Diplomacy: Peace Agreement between the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II and the Signoria of Venice (January 25, 1478) Byzantium: Decline and Fall 8.8 Before the fall: Patriarch Anthony, Letter to the Russian Church (1395) 8.9 The fall bewailed: George Sphrantzes, Chronicle (before 1477) 8.10 After the fall: Archbishop Genady of Novgorod and Dmitry Gerasimov, The Tale of the White Cowl (end of the 15th c.) War and Social Unrest in France and England 8.11 Chivalric and non-chivalric models: Froissart, Chronicles (c.1400) 8.12 National feeling: Jeanne d'Arc, Letter to the English (1429) 8.13 The commons revolt: Wat Tyler's Rebellion (after 1381) Crises and Changes in the Church and Religion 8.14 The humiliation of Avignon: St. Catherine of Siena, Letter to Pope Gregory XI (1376) 8.15 The conciliarist movement: Jean Gerson, Sermon at the Council of Constance (1415) 8.16 The Hussite program: The Four Articles of Prague (1420) 8.17 The Catholic rally against the Hussites: Emperor Sigismund, Crusading Letter (1421) 8.18 Piety in the Low Countries: Salome Sticken, Formula for Living (c.1435) The Renaissance 8.19 Re-evaluating antiquity: Cincius Romanus, Letter to His Most Learned Teacher Franciscus de Fiana (1416) 8.20 The search for a patron: George of Trebizond, Prefatory letter to Mehmed II (1465-1466) 8.21 Old sources criticized: Lorenzo Valla, Discourse on the Forgery of the Alleged Donation of Constantine (1440) 8.22 Defending women: Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (1404-1407) 8.23 Satirizing society: Francois Villon, Testament (1461) 8.24 An Islamic Renaissance thinker: Ibn Khaldun, Muqaddimah (1377-1381) Finding a New World Plate 8.1 A new kind of map: Gabriel de Valseca, Portolan Chart (1447) 8.25 Taking Mexico: Hernan Cortes, The Second Letter (1520) Timeline for Chapter 8
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