Medieval England, 500-1500 : a reader

CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
A NOTE ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH MONEY
MAP OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBORS
CHAPTER ONE: THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD, CA 500–1066
	1. Gildas on the Coming of the Anglo-Saxons
	2. Letters on the Gregorian Mission
		Pope Gregory I to King Æthelbert of Kent, 601
		Pope Gregory I to Abbot Mellitus, 601
	3. Laws of Æthelbert of Kent
	4. Bede on the Conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria
	5. An Anglo-Saxon Burial: The Ely “Princess”
	6. Riddles from the Exeter Book
	7. Slavery in Anglo-Saxon England
		Manumission of Eadhlem by King Athelstan, 925
		Manumission of Slaves for King Edgar (r. 942–75)
		Putrael Establishes His Free Status, Later Tenth Century
		A Miracle Concerning the Slave-Girl of Teoð  ic the Bell-Founder
		A Miracle Concerning a Slave Who Carried Red-Hot Metal in His Bare Hand
	8. Treaty between King Alfred the Great and Guthrum
	9. Alfred the Great’s Preface to the Pastoral Care
	10. The Battle of Maldon
	11. Labor and Daily Life from Ælfric of EYNSHAM’s Colloquy
	12. Anglo-Saxon Wills
		The Will of Ælfhelm, 975–1016
		The Will of Ælfflæd, 1000–1002
		The Will of Archbishop Ælfric, 1003–1004
	13. The Cotton Anglo-Saxon World Map
	14. The Wolf’s Sermon to the English
	15. Laws of Cnut
		Of Heathenism
		Of  Various Criminal Acts
		Of Currency and Measures
		Of Fines Due to the King
		Of Courts
		That Every Man Should Belong to a Tithing
		Of the Bearing of Witness
		Of the Killing of Clerics
		Of Men in Holy Orders
		Of Widows and Maids
		Of Adultery
		Of Him Who Fights in the King’s Household
		In Case Anyone Disarm Another
		Of the Heriot
		Of Widows and Marriage
		Of Stolen Property
		Of Him Who Flees from His Lord
		Of Him Who Falls before His Lord
		Of Hunting
	16. Cnut’s Letter to the English People
	17. Praise of Queen Emma
		Prologue
		Book II
		Book III
	18. The Life of King E d ward Who Rests at Westminster
		Book 1
		Book 2
CHAPTER TWO: THE NORMAN ERA, 1066–1154
	19. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on the Norman Conquest
	20. The Text of the Bayeux Tapestry
	21. Doing Penance for the Norman Victory
	22. Castles in Norman England
		The Siege of Exeter, 1136
	23. Domesday Book
		Gloucestershire
		The King’s Land
		In Botloe Hundred
		Earl Hugh’s Land
			In Bisley Hundred
			In Longtree Hundred
			In Witley Hundred
			In Longtree Hundred
		Land of William Goizenboded
			In Chelthorn Hundred
			In Holmford Hundred
	24. Orderic Vitalis’s Account of his Life
	25. Anselm of Canterbury on His Feud with William Rufus
		Anselm to Pope Paschal II (late 1099 or early 1100)
	26. Gilbert Crispin’s Disputation of a Jew with a Christian
	27. Church Reform: The Council of Westminster
	28. Henry I’s Coronation Charter
	29. Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith-Matilda
	30. The Founding of the Gilbertine Order
	31. William of Malmesbury on the Civil War between Stephen and Matilda
	32. The Battle of the Standard
CHAPTER THREE: THE ANGEVIN ERA, 1154–1216
	33. Gerald of Wales’s Description of Henry II
	34. The Constitutions of Clarendon
	35. The Murder and Miracles of Thomas Becket
		Edward Grim’s Life of Thomas Becket
		Miracles of Saint Thomas, by William of Canterbury
			Of a matron who on the seventh day spoke with the martyr in her sleep
			Of a townsman whom the martyr suddenly snatched from this world, because he had snatched a poor woman’s sheep
			Of a girl who had sunk in some water
	36. Glanville’s Treatise on the L a ws and Customs of the Kingdom of England
		Book 2.  . . . Of Those Things Which Appertain to the Duel or Grand Assize
		Book 6. Of Dower
	37. Jocelin of Brakelond on the Misfortunes of Henry of Essex
	38. The Political Career of Eleanor of Aquitaine
		[Peter of Blois, writing on behalf of  ] Archbishop Rotrou of Rouen, to Queen Eleanor, 1173
		Queen Eleanor to Pope Celestine III, 1193
	39. The Cult of King Arthur
		[Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Account of Arthur’s Reign]
		[Gerald of Wales on the Rediscovery of Arthur’s Tomb at Glastonbury]
	40. Town Charters
		Henry I to London [early twelfth century]
		Archbishop Thurstan of York to Beverly [before 1140]
	41. William fitzStephen’s Description of London
	42. Thomas of Monmouth’s Life of Saint William of Nor wich
		Book I
	43. Reginald of Durham’s Life of Saint Godric, Hermi t of Finchale
	44. The Histor y of William Marshal
	45. John of Salisbury’s Policra ticus
		[The Function of Soldiers]
		[On Tyrants and Tyrannicide]
		Wherein the Tyrant Differs from the Prince, and of the Tyranny of Priests
	46. Richard of Devizes on the Third Crusade
	47. Enforcing the Forest Law
		Pleas of the Forest Heard at Northampton, February 1209
	48. Letters of Innocent III and King John
		Answer of Innocent III Concerning the Interdict, 1208
		John’s Surrender of the Kingdom to the Pope, 1213
	49. Roger of Wendover’s Account of the Rebellion against King John
		Of the Demands Made by the Barons of England for Their Rights
		Of the Principal Persons Who Compelled the King to Grant the Laws and Liberties
		The Castle of Northampton Besieged by the Barons
		How the City of London Was Given Up to the Barons
		The Conference between the King and the Barons
	50. Magna Carta
CHAPTER FOUR: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, 1216–1299
	51. Letters of Queen Isabella of Angoulême
		Isabella, Queen of England, to Her Son, Henry III [ca 1218–19]
		Isabella, Queen of England, to Pandulph, Bishop-Elect of Norwich [ca June 1219]
		Isabella, Queen of England, Countess of March and Angoulême, to Her Son, Henry III [1220]
	52. Henry de Bracton’s Notebook: Cases from the Royal Courts
	53. Persecution and Expulsion of English Jews
		Ordinances of Henry III, 1253
		Threatened Expulsion of Salle of Canterbury, 1253
		John of Trokelowe’s Chronicle
		Edward I’s Order, 1290
	54. The Ancrene Wisse
		2. Of Temptations
		6. Of Penance
		8. Of Domestic Matters
	55. Thomas of Eccleston on the Coming of the Friars Minor to England
		Of the First Coming of the Friars Minor to England
		Of the First Separation of the Brethren
	56. The Baronial Cause: The Song of L e wes
	57. The Miracles of Simon de Montfort
	58. The Household Roll of Countess Eleanor of Leicester
		[Daily Expenditures]
		[Miscellaneous Payments]
			By Gobion
			By Seman
		[Wages]
	59. Summonses to Parliament
		Summons of a Bishop
		Summons of a Baron
		Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns
	60. London Coroners’ Rolls
		Death of John Fuatard
		Death of Henry Green
		Death of John le Hancrete
		Death of Matilda, Wife of Henry le Coffeur
		Death of Simon of Winchester
		Death of William le Pannere
		Death of Henry of Llanfair
		Death of William Cole
	61. Plan of the Village of Wharram Percy
	62. Manorial Life, from the Hundred Rolls
	63. The Statutes of Merton College, Oxford
		1. Of the Grant of the Manors of Maldon and Farleigh
		2. Of the Lawyers and Scholars Living in the House
		7. Of the Deans’ Duties, etc.
		8. Of the Scholars’ Table
		40. Of the Education of the Boys, etc.
	64. Roger Bacon’s Account of his Academic Career
	65. The Conquest of Wales
	66. Edward I’s Confirmation of Charters
CHAPTER FIVE: AN AGE OF DISASTERS, 1300–1399
	67. Parish Life in the Diocese of Exeter
	68. Correspondence of the Queen with London
	69. The Manner of Holding Parliament
		The Summoning of the Parliament
		Concerning Difficult Cases and Judgments
		Concerning the Business of the Parliament
		Concerning the Days and Hours of Parliament
		Concerning the Ranks of Peers
		Concerning the Opening of the Parliament
		Concerning the Preaching before the Parliament
		Concerning the Declaration in Parliament
		Concerning the King’s Speech after the Declaration
		Concerning the King’s Absence from Parliament
		Concerning the Places and Seats in the Parliament
		Concerning the King’s Aid
		Concerning the Breaking Up of the Parliament
	70. A Chronicle of the Great Famine
	71. The Royal Response to the Famine
	72. Manor Court Rolls
	73. A Proof of Age Inquest
	74. London Craft Guild Ordinances
		Articles of the Spurriers, 1345
		Ordinances of the Court-Hand Writers, or Scriveners, 1373
	75. Urban Environmental Problems and Regulations
		Unlawful Nets Condemned to Be Burned, 1329
		Ordinance That Brewers Shall Not Waste the Water of the Conduit in Cheap, 1345
		Royal Order for Cleaning the Streets of the City, and the Banks of the Thames, 1357
		Royal Order for the Removal of Butchers’ Bridge and the Prevention of the Slaughtering of Beasts at St. Nicholas Shambles, 1369
	76. Articles of Accusation against Edward II
	77. Dispute between an Englishman and a Frenchman
		The Frenchman Speaks
		The Englishman Speaks
	78. Jean Froissart on the Battle of Crécy
	79. Thomas Bradwardine’s Victory Sermon after Crécy
	80. The Black Death
		Henry Knighton’s Chronicle
		Valuation of the Manor of Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire
	81. Post-Plague Wage and Price Regulations
		The Ordinance of Laborers, 1349
		London Wage and Price Regulations, 1350
	82. Chronicle Accounts of the Peasants’ Revolt
		Froissart’s Account of a Sermon by John Ball
		Henry Knighton’s Chronicle
	83. A Peasants’ Revolt Trial
	84. Ordinances of the Guild of Saint Katharine at Nor wich
	85. Robert Manning of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne
	86. The Growth of Lollardy
		Lollards at Northampton, 1393
		The Lollard Conclusions, 1394
	87. The Deposition of Richard II
CHAPTER SIX: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, 1399–1500
	88. Chronicle of the Reign of Henry V
		Of King Harry V, the Son of King Harry IV, after the Conquest
		How King Harry Went the Second Time into Normandy, and of the Capture of Calais, and the Siege of Rouen
	89. Statutes of the Order of the Garter
	90. Financing the Agincourt Campaign
		Indenture between King Henry V and Sir Thomas Tunstall, 1415
		Petition of Thomas Strickland, 1424
	91. Order of the Pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play
	92. Poems about Raising Children
		How the Goodwife Taught Her Daughter
		How the Wise Man Taught His Son
	93. London Wills
		Will of Robert Avery, 1410
		Will of Richard Young, 1413
	94. Apprenticeship Documents
		Indenture of Apprenticeship, 1459
		Repudiation by a Master of a Runaway Apprentice, 1416
	95. Visitations of Monasteries
		Dorchester Abbey
		Catesby Priory
	96. A London Chronicle on the Wars of the Roses
		Henry VI, 36th year
			Godfrey Boleyn, William Edward, Thomas Reyner
		Henry VI, 38th year
			William Hulyn, John Plumer, John Stokker
		Henry VI, 39th year
			Richard Lee, Richard Flemyng, John Lumbard
		Edward IV, 2nd year
			Thomas Cook, William Hampton, Barthu. Jamys
		Edward IV, 3rd year
			Matthew Philip, Robert Basset, Thomas Muschamp
		Edward IV, 9th year
			Richard Lee, Richard Gardiner, Robert Drope
		Henry VI, 1st year; Edward IV, 1st year [the dating reflects Henry’s brief return to the throne during Edward’s exile in 1470–71]
			John Stockton, John Croby, John Ward
	97. The Cely Letters
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1480
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1480
		John Cely to George Cely at Calais, 1480
		Robert Cely to George Cely at Calais, 1480
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1480
		William Maryon to George Cely at Calais, 1480
		George Cely to Richard Cely the Elder at London, 1480
		William Cely to George Cely at Bruges, 1481
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1481
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1481
		John Dalton to George Cely in London, 1482
		Joyce Parmenter to George Cely in London, 1482
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1482
		Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1482
		William Cely to George Cely at London, 1482
		William Cely to George Cely at London, 1482
	98. The Accession of Richard III
	99. The Battle of Bosworth
	100. The Rediscovery of Richard III
	101. Polydore Vergil’s Account of Henry VII
	102. An Italian Relation of England
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