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Defining Documents in World History: Middle Ages (476–1500)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




Maps




Byzantium and Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages




Codex Justinianus: Children of the Unfree




Novella 146: On Jews




Excerpt from the Visigothic Code




The Farmer's Law, from Byzantium




The Laws of Alfred, Guthrum, and Edward the Elder




The Laws of King Alfred




The Catholic Church and its Vicissitudes




Four Documents from the Investiture Controversy




A Truce of God, Decree of the Emperor Henry IV




The Crusaders in Mainz, May 27, 1096




Excerpt from “The Capture of Jerusalem”




Excerpt from Historia Constantinopolitana




Statute in Favor of the Princes




Report from China




Letter to Gregory XI




England and France




The Assize of Clarendon




Letter from Peter of Blois to Queen Eleanor of England




Excerpt from Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer




On the Rules of Love and Chivalry




Magna Carta




Three Summonses to the Parliament of 1295




Ordinances of the Merchant Gild of Southampton




The Battle of Poitiers, from The Chronicles of Froissart




Excerpts from The Book of the City of Ladies




Excerpt from The Treasure of the City of Ladies




Letter to the King of England from Joan of Arc




Excerpt from the Trial of Joan of Arc




The Near East and Beyond




The Pact of Umar: Peace Accord to the Christans of Syria




Ibn Battuta Makes the Pilgrimage to Mecca and Travels to Baghdad




Ibn Battuta's Travels in Cairo, Damascus, and Jerusalem




Ibn Battuta's Travels to Mali




Philosophy, Religion, and Science




On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy




Excerpt from St. Anselm's Proslogium, or Discourse on the Existence of God




“In Behalf of the Fool”: A Response to St. Anselm




Prologue to Sic et Non




“Of the Perils of His Abbey,” from Abelard's Historia Calamitatum




Testament of St. Francis




On the Principles of Nature




Excerpt from Summa Theologica




“On Experimental Science”




Excerpt from The Love of Books




Chronological List




Web Resources




Bibliography