The Portable Medieval Reader
Home > Biographies & Memoire > Literature: history and criticism > Literary studies: general > The Portable Medieval Reader
The Portable Medieval Reader

The Portable Medieval Reader

|
     0     
5
4
3
2
1




International Edition


About the Book

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THE PAGEANT OF THEMIDDLE AGES - IN THEOLOGY, HISTORY, TRAVEL, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND IMAGINATIVE LITERATURE- BROUGHT TO LIFE BY WRITERS OF THE PERIOD 1050-1500. DANTE ALIGHIERI, FRANCESCO PETRARCA, GEOFFREY CHAUCER, SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, PETER ABELARD, LEONARDO DA VINCI, ROGER BACON, AND DOZENS OF OTHERS. "A CROSS SECTION OFSOURCE HISTORY ANDLITERATURE ...AS RICH AND VARIEDAS A STAINED-GLASSWINDOW". COLUMBIA RECORD.

Table of Contents:
The Portable Medieval Reader - Edited by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin Introduction Chronological Table Suggestions for Further Reading Part One: The Body SocialThe Body Social - John of Salisbury The Orders of Men THE CLERGY: THE PRAYERS AND THINKERS The Monastic Ideal - Peter Damiani The Cistercian Order - William of Malmesbury How the Friars Came to Germany - Jordan of Giano A Preacher and His Miracles - Salimbene Monastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century - John Busch Archibishop Baldwin of Canterbury - Giraldus Cambrensis A Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham - John Capgrave An Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy - Ordericus Vitalis The Habits of Priests in Normandy - Odo of Rigaud Statutes for a College - Robert de Sorbonne How the Student Should Behave - John of Garland THE NOBILITY: THE FIGHTERS The Function of Knighthood - John of Salisbury The Chivalric Ideal - Díaz de Gámez The Murder of a Feudal Lord - Galbert of Bruges The Battle of Poitiers - Geoffrey le Baker A Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century - Jörg von Ehingen The Rules of Courtly Love - Andreas Capellanus A Noble Household - Jean Froissart Offices in a Noble Household - John Russell Private Lives of the English Gentry - Stonor Letters THE PEASANTS AND BURGHERS: THE WORKERS The Feet of the Commonwealth - John of Salisbury The Duties of Manorial Officers - Seneschaucie The Peasant's Life - William Langland The Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale - Reginald of Durham Advice to a Norweigian Merchant - The King's Mirror The Successful Surgeon - John Arderne The Good Wife - The Goodman of Paris Life in London - Memorials of London Fashions in Italy - Sacchetti THE JEWS Papal Protection of the Jews - Pope Gregory X The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry - Jacob von Königshofen Conflict, Protest, and Catastrophe A Revolt of the Commons in London - Roger of Wendover The Peasants' Revolt in England - Anonimalle Chronicle My Brother Man - Walther von der Vogelweide Piers Plowman's Protest - William Langland The Waldensian Heretics - Bernard Gui The Impact of the Black Death - Henry Knighton Paris during the Hundred Years' War - Journal d'un bourgeois Part Two: The Christian CommonwealthThe Spiritual Authority The Superiority of the Spiritual Authority - Pope Bonfiace VIII The Election and Coronation of a Pope - Adam of Usk The Creation of Cardinals - Pope Pius II The Fourth Lateran Council - Roger of Wendover A French Provincial Synod - Odo of Rigaud Letter to King Henry II - Thomas Becket The Temporal Authorities The Nature of a True Prince - John of Salisbury The Independence of the Temporal Authority - Frederick Barbarossa The Election and Coronation of an Emperor - Otto of Freising A German Poet's Attack on the Papacy - Walther von der Vogelweide The Seven Electors - Adam of Usk A Picture of a Good Feudal King: Louis VI of France - Suger The Coronation of Richard Lion Heart - Roger of Wendover The Deposition and Death of Richard II - Adam of Usk An Imperialist View of the Lombard Communes - Otto of Freising City Politics in Siena - Pope Pius II A Petty Italian Tyrant - Anonymous A Picture of a Tyrant - Pope Pius II Renewal and Reform The Recovery of the Holy Land: A Plan of Action and a Scheme for Reform - Pierre du Bois On the Supremacy of General Councils in Church and Empire - Nicholas of Cusa A Plea for the Reform of Germany - Die Reformation Kaiser Sigmunds A Call for Common Action Against the Turks - Pope Pius II Part Three: The House of FameBohemond the Crusader - Anna Comnena ON the Fame of Abelard - Heloise Heloise and Abelard: The Later Years - Peter the Venerable Arnold of Brescia, a Twelfth-Century Revolutionary - John of Salisbury Arnold of Brescia - Anonymous His Own Deeds - Giraldus Cambrensis Henry II, King of England - Giraldus Cambrensis The Emperor Frederick II - Salimbene A Saintly King - Jean de Joinville Pope Boniface VIII - Giovanni Villani Dante Alighieri - Giovanni Villani Inscription for a Portrait of Dante - Giovanni Boccaccio Giotto - Lorenzo Ghiberti Letter to Posterity - Francesco Petrarca Charles the Bold and the Fall of the House of Burgundy - Philippe de Commines Part Four: The World PictureThe Frontiers of Europe: Conquest and Assimilation of Peoples Anglo-Saxons and Normans - William of Malmesbury The Character and Customs of the Irish - Giraldus Cambrensis The Conversion and Subjugation of the Slavs - Helmold The German Push to the East - Ordensritter und Kirchenfürsten The Near East: Pilgrimage and Crusade The Great German Pilgrimage - Lambert of Hersfeld The First Contact of Crusaders and Turks - Histoire anonyme de la première croisade A Greek View of the Crusaders - Anna Comnena An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders - Usamah A Crusader's Criticism of the Greeks - Odo of Deuil Why the Crusaders Failed - William of Tyre The Expedition of the Grand Company to Constantinople - Ramón Muntaner The Far East: Missionaries and Merchants The Tartar Menace to Europe - Matthew Paris A Mission to the Great Khan - William of Rubrud The Labours of a Friar in Cathay - John of Monte Corvino A Last Mission to Cathay - John of Marignolli Advice to Merchants Bound for Cathay - Francesco Pegolotti Henry the Navigator's Search for New Lands - Gomes de Azurara Part Five: The Noble CastleThe Makers POETS AND STORY-TELLERS The Vision of Viands - Aniar MacConglinne Hymn for Good Friday - Peter Abelard David's Lament for Jonathan - Peter Abelard Let's Away with Study - Anonymous When Diana Lighteth - Anonymous To Bel Vezer on Her Dismissal of the Poet - Bernart de Ventadorn Dawn Song - Anonymous The Pretty Fruits of Love - Anonymous This Song Wants Drink - Anonymous The Love of Tristan and Iseult - Gottfried von Strassburg Of the Churl Who Won Paradise - Anonymous Gather Ye Rosebuds - Romance of the Rose The Canticle of the Sun - Saint Francis of Assisi Of the Gentle Heart - Guido Guinicelli My Lady Looks So Gentle - Dante Alighieri Beauty in Women - Guido Cavalcanti Of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Sinner - Jacopone da Todi Merciless Beauty: A Triple Roundel - Geoffrey Chaucer Roundel - Christine de Pisan Miracles of the Virgin - Johannes Herolt PAINTERS AND BUILDERS Of Pictures and Images - William Durandus How to Represent the Arts and Sciences - Quellenbuch zur Kunstgeschichte The Identity of Individual Artists - Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de l'architecture Abbots as Builders - Gesta abbatum sancti Albani A Painter on His Craft - Cennino Cennini Nature as the Supreme Authority - Leonardo da Vinci MUSICIANS Celtic Music and Music in General - Giraldus Cambrensis Two Musical Friars - Salimbene An Orchestra of the Fourteenth Century - Guillaume de Machaut The Mirror of History A Philosophy of History - Otto of Freising The Problems and Motives of the Historian - William of Tyre The Seven Liberal Arts On Study and Teaching - Hugh of St. Victor The Battle of the Arts - Henri d'Andeli Rules of the University of Paris - Chartulary of the University of Paris Fernando of Cordova, the Boy Wonder - Launoy The Problems of a Christian Humanist - John of Salisbury The Ancients and the Moderns - Walter Map A Plea for the Study of Languages - Roger Bacon Statute of the Council of Vienne on Languages - Chartulary of the University of Paris An English Humanist - Richard de Bury In Defence of Liberal Studies - Coluccio Salutati In Praise of Greek - Leonardo Bruni The Mirror of Nature Questions on Nature - Adelard of Bath Experimental Science - Roger Bacon The Case of a Woman Doctor in Paris - Chartulary of the University of Paris The History of Surgery - Gui de Chauliac The Mirror of Wisdom The Place of Logic in Philosophy - Peter Abelard The End of Man - Saint Thomas Aquinas On Learned Ignorance - Nicholas of Cusa The Vision of God The Soul Complains to God - Jacopone da Todi A Crying Mystic - Margery Kempe The Vision of God - Nicholas of Cusa Acknowledgments


Best Sellers


Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780140150469
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Weight: 594 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0140150463
  • Publisher Date: 26 May 1977
  • Height: 196 mm
  • No of Pages: 704
  • Spine Width: 39 mm
  • Width: 128 mm


Similar Products

Add Photo
Add Photo

Customer Reviews

REVIEWS      0     
Click Here To Be The First to Review this Product
The Portable Medieval Reader
Penguin Books Ltd -
The Portable Medieval Reader
Writing guidlines
We want to publish your review, so please:
  • keep your review on the product. Review's that defame author's character will be rejected.
  • Keep your review focused on the product.
  • Avoid writing about customer service. contact us instead if you have issue requiring immediate attention.
  • Refrain from mentioning competitors or the specific price you paid for the product.
  • Do not include any personally identifiable information, such as full names.

The Portable Medieval Reader

Required fields are marked with *

Review Title*
Review
    Add Photo Add up to 6 photos
    Would you recommend this product to a friend?
    Tag this Book Read more
    Does your review contain spoilers?
    What type of reader best describes you?
    I agree to the terms & conditions
    You may receive emails regarding this submission. Any emails will include the ability to opt-out of future communications.

    CUSTOMER RATINGS AND REVIEWS AND QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS TERMS OF USE

    These Terms of Use govern your conduct associated with the Customer Ratings and Reviews and/or Questions and Answers service offered by Bookswagon (the "CRR Service").


    By submitting any content to Bookswagon, you guarantee that:
    • You are the sole author and owner of the intellectual property rights in the content;
    • All "moral rights" that you may have in such content have been voluntarily waived by you;
    • All content that you post is accurate;
    • You are at least 13 years old;
    • Use of the content you supply does not violate these Terms of Use and will not cause injury to any person or entity.
    You further agree that you may not submit any content:
    • That is known by you to be false, inaccurate or misleading;
    • That infringes any third party's copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights or rights of publicity or privacy;
    • That violates any law, statute, ordinance or regulation (including, but not limited to, those governing, consumer protection, unfair competition, anti-discrimination or false advertising);
    • That is, or may reasonably be considered to be, defamatory, libelous, hateful, racially or religiously biased or offensive, unlawfully threatening or unlawfully harassing to any individual, partnership or corporation;
    • For which you were compensated or granted any consideration by any unapproved third party;
    • That includes any information that references other websites, addresses, email addresses, contact information or phone numbers;
    • That contains any computer viruses, worms or other potentially damaging computer programs or files.
    You agree to indemnify and hold Bookswagon (and its officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures, employees and third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.), harmless from all claims, demands, and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known and unknown including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of a breach of your representations and warranties set forth above, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.


    For any content that you submit, you grant Bookswagon a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, transferable right and license to use, copy, modify, delete in its entirety, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from and/or sell, transfer, and/or distribute such content and/or incorporate such content into any form, medium or technology throughout the world without compensation to you. Additionally,  Bookswagon may transfer or share any personal information that you submit with its third-party service providers, including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc. in accordance with  Privacy Policy


    All content that you submit may be used at Bookswagon's sole discretion. Bookswagon reserves the right to change, condense, withhold publication, remove or delete any content on Bookswagon's website that Bookswagon deems, in its sole discretion, to violate the content guidelines or any other provision of these Terms of Use.  Bookswagon does not guarantee that you will have any recourse through Bookswagon to edit or delete any content you have submitted. Ratings and written comments are generally posted within two to four business days. However, Bookswagon reserves the right to remove or to refuse to post any submission to the extent authorized by law. You acknowledge that you, not Bookswagon, are responsible for the contents of your submission. None of the content that you submit shall be subject to any obligation of confidence on the part of Bookswagon, its agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, partners or third party service providers (including but not limited to Bazaarvoice, Inc.)and their respective directors, officers and employees.

    Accept

    New Arrivals

    Inspired by your browsing history


    Your review has been submitted!

    You've already reviewed this product!