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Recommended Primary Sources

• Guibert of Nogent: The Revolt in Laon, 1115
• Jacques de Vitry: Life of the Students at Paris
• Andreas Capellanus: The Art of Courtly Love, 1174-1186
• Usmah Ibn Munquidh: Excerpts on the Franks

Those Who Work: Agricultural Labor

Texts:

• Manorial Management and Organization, c. 1275
• Grant of Freedom to a Betrothed Serf, 1059

Those Outside the Order: Town Life

Texts:

• Documents Concerning the Origin of Guilds, 884-930
• The Great Fair at Thessalonica, mid-12th ct.
• Accounts of Medieval Fairs and Markets, c. 998-1250
• Lübeck and Hamburg Treaty, 1241
• Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215
• Peter Abelard: The Story of My Misfortunes
• Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae
• Roger Bacon: On Experimental Science, 1268

Those Who Fight: Nobles and Knights

Texts:

• The Statutes of Arms, c. 1260
• The Song of Roland
• Chrétien de Troyes: Lancelot, c. 1170

The Rise of Centralized Monarchies

Texts:

• William of Malmesbury: The Battle of Hastings, 1066
• Odericus Vitalis: On Henry I
• Gerard of Wales: On Henry II and His Sons
• Magna Carta, 1215
• Three Summonses to the Parliament of 1295
• The Lay of the Cid
• Richer: The Election of Hugh Capet, 987
• St. Louis: Letter to His Son
• William of Hundlehy: The Outrage at Anagni, 1303
• Documents on the Besancon Episode

Images:

• St. James the Great
• Map of the Growth of the French Monarchy
• Map of Germany, c. 962
• Frederick I

Those Who Pray: Imperial Popes and Expanding Christendom

Texts:

• Decree of 1059: On Papal Elections
• Gregory VII: Lay Investitures Forbidden, 1080
• The Concordat of Worms, 1122
• Innocent III: Letters on Papal Policies
• Urban II: Speech at Clermont, 1095
• Collected Sources on the Fourth Crusade, 1204
• Ludolph of Suchem: The Fall of Acre, 1291
• The Conversion of Peter Waldo
• St. Francis: Canticle of the Sun
• Bernard Gui: On the Albigensians

Images:

• Urban II at Clermont
• Crusaders Fighting Arabs
• Innocent III and St. Francis