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Those Who Work: Agricultural Labor

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Those Outside the Order: Town Life

Texts:

  • Documents Concerning the Origin of Guilds
  • Guibert of Nogent: Communal Revolt in Laon
  • The Great Fair at Thessalonica
  • Accounts of Medieval Fairs and Markets
  • Lübeck and Hamburg Treaty
  • Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris
  • Jacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at Paris
  • Peter Abelard: History of My Calamities
  • Thomas Aquinas: Reasons in Proof of the Existence of God
  • Roger Bacon: On Experimental Science

    Those Who Fight: Nobles and Knights

    Texts:

  • Statuta Armorum (The Statutes of Arms)
  • The Song of Roland
  • Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot
  • Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love

    The Rise of Centralized Monarchies

    Texts:

  • William of Malmesbury: The Battle of Hastings, 1066
  • Orderic Vitalis: Ecclesiastical History
  • Gerald of Wales: On Henry II and his Sons
  • Magna Carta
  • Three Summonses to the Parliament
  • The Lay of the Cid
  • Richer: The Election of Hugh Capet
  • St. Louis: Advice to His Son
  • William of Hundlehy: The Outrage at Anagni
  • Liutprand of Cremona: Report on Mission to Constantinople
  • The Besançon Episode

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    Those Who Pray: Imperial Popes and Expanding Christendom

    Texts:

  • Papal Election Decree
  • Gregory VII: Lay Investitures Forbidden
  • Concordat of Worms
  • Innocent III: Letters on Papal Polices
  • Urban II: Speech at Clermont
  • Usmah Ibn Munqidh: Autobiography: Excerpts on the Franks
  • The Fourth Crusade 1204: Collected Sources
  • Ludolph of Suchem: The Fall of Acre
  • Conversion of Peter Waldo
  • St. Francis: Canticle of the Sun
  • Bernard Gui: Inquisitor's Manual: On the Albigensians

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