This volume explores critical aspects of the
Medieval world through key primary documents, from letters and
speeches to royal edicts and law codes. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for
historical research.

Contents

The Medieval Age

Medieval Church and State

Europeans and Mongols

Reason and Faith in Thomas Aquinas

Letters of Cassiodorus in the Name of Theodoric

Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks

The Voyage of Bran

Boniface: Letter to Pope Zacharias on the Foundation of the Monastery at Fulda

Charlemagne: Capitulary for Saxony

Charlemagne: Letter to Abbot Baugualf of Fulda

Alcuin of York: Letter to Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne, about the Viking Raid

Charlemagne: Great Capitulary

Einhard: Life of Charlemagne

Song of Hildebrand

Annals of Xanten

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

Foundation Charter of the Order of Cluny

Synod of Charroux: Peace of God

The Battle at Maldon

Truce for the Bishopric of Terouanne

Henry I: Charter of Liberties

Russian Primary Chronicle

Bernard Atton, Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty

Concordat of Worms

Thomas À Becket: Letter to Henry II

The Lay of the Cid

Bishop Solomon: The Book of the Bee

Annals of Roger de Hoveden

Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris

Second Rule of the Friars Minor

John of Plano Carpini: History of the Mongols

The King’s Mirror

Mongol Conquest of Northern Rus

Mongol Capture of Kiev

Roger Bacon: “On Experimental Science”

Pope Gregory XI: Bull against John Wycliffe

Anonimalle Chronicle

John Wycliffe: Reply to His Summons by Pope Urban VI

Law against the Lollards

Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI