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Medieval England, 1000-1500: A Reader

This popular primary source reader spans several centuries in over one hundred documents. In addition to constitutional highlights and standard texts such as the Magna Carta and Froissart's Chronicles, the editors include narrative sources on the lived experiences of an array of historical actors. All sources fit into thematic clusters on the Anglo-Saxon monarchy, lay piety, late medieval commercial life, queenship, and Jewish communities.

The book also features 40 illustrations, a map, and an index of topics. Additional resources, including essay questions, web resources, and a timeline, can be found on the History Matters website (www.utphistorymatters.com).

CONTENTS

Labor and Daily Life from Ælfric of Eynsham’s Colloquy

Anglo-Saxon Wills

Laws of Cnut

Cnut’s Letter to the English People

Praise of Queen Emma

The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on the Norman Conquest

The Text of the Bayeux Tapestry

Domesday Book

Orderic Vitalis’s Account of His Life

Henry I’s Coronation Charter

Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith-Matilda

William of Malmesbury on the Civil War between Stephen and Matilda

Gerald of Wales’s Description of Henry II

The Constitutions of Clarendon

The Murder and Miracles of Thomas Becket

Glanville’s Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England

Jocelin of Brakelond on the Misfortunes of Henry of Essex

Town Charters

William fitzStephen’s Description of London

Thomas of Monmouth’s Life of Saint William of Norwich

Reginald of Durham’s Life of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale

The History of William Marshal

John of Salisbury’s Policraticus

Richard of Devizes on the Third Crusade

Letters of Innocent III and King John

Roger of Wendover’s Account of the Rebellion against King John

Magna Carta

Letters of Queen Isabella of Angoulême

Henry de Bracton’s Notebook: Cases from the Royal Courts

The Ancrene Wisse

Thomas of Eccleston on the Coming of the Friars Minor to England

The Baronial Cause: The Song of Lewes

Summonses to Parliament

London Coroners’ Rolls

Manorial Life, from the Hundred Rolls

The Statutes of Merton College, Oxford

Roger Bacon’s Account of His Academic Career

Edward I’s Confirmation of Charters

Correspondence of the Queen with London

The Manner of Holding Parliament

A Chronicle of the Great Famine

The Royal Response to the Famine

Manor Court Rolls

London Craft Guild Ordinances

Urban Environmental Problems and Regulations

Jean Froissart on the Battle of Crécy

Post-Plague Wage and Price Regulations

Chronicle Accounts of the Peasants’ Revolt

A Peasants’ Revolt Trial

Ordinances of the Guild of Saint Katharine at Norwich

Robert Manning of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne

The Deposition of Richard II

Chronicle of the Reign of Henry V

Order of the Pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play

Poems about Raising Children

Apprenticeship Documents

Visitations of Monasteries

A London Chronicle on the Wars of the Roses

The Cely Letters

The Battle of Bosworth

The Rediscovery of Richard III

Polydore Vergil’s Account of Henry VII

An Italian Relation of England

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 520
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781551112442
  • Genres
  • history, medieval, school
  • Release date
  • 2000