Recommended Primary Sources
Those Who Work: Agricultural Labor Texts: Those Outside the Order: Town Life Texts: Documents Concerning the Origin of GuildsGuibert of Nogent: Communal Revolt in LaonThe Great Fair at ThessalonicaAccounts of Medieval Fairs and MarketsLübeck and Hamburg TreatyRobert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of ParisJacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at ParisPeter Abelard: History of My CalamitiesThomas Aquinas:
Reasons in Proof of the Existence of GodRoger Bacon:
On Experimental ScienceThose Who Fight: Nobles and Knights Texts: Statuta Armorum
(The Statutes of Arms)The Song of RolandChrétien de Troyes, LancelotAndreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly LoveThe Rise of Centralized Monarchies Texts: William of Malmesbury: The Battle of Hastings, 1066Orderic Vitalis: Ecclesiastical HistoryGerald of Wales: On Henry II and his SonsMagna CartaThree Summonses to the ParliamentThe Lay of the CidRicher: The Election of Hugh CapetSt. Louis: Advice to His SonWilliam of Hundlehy: The Outrage at AnagniLiutprand of Cremona: Report on Mission to ConstantinopleThe Besançon EpisodeImages: Those Who Pray: Imperial Popes and Expanding Christendom Texts: Papal Election DecreeGregory VII: Lay Investitures ForbiddenConcordat of WormsInnocent III: Letters on Papal PolicesUrban II: Speech at ClermontUsmah Ibn Munqidh: Autobiography: Excerpts on the FranksThe Fourth Crusade 1204: Collected SourcesLudolph of Suchem: The Fall of AcreConversion of Peter WaldoSt. Francis: Canticle of the Sun
Bernard Gui: Inquisitor's Manual:
On the AlbigensiansImages:
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