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Informationen zum Autor Various Klappentext In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholars—that together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window." Zusammenfassung Presents a collection of writings that describe all aspects of Medieval society. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Portable Medieval Reader - Edited by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin Introduction Chronological Table Suggestions for Further Reading Part One: The Body SocialThe Body Social - John of Salisbury The Orders of Men THE CLERGY: THE PRAYERS AND THINKERS The Monastic Ideal - Peter Damiani The Cistercian Order - William of Malmesbury How the Friars Came to Germany - Jordan of Giano A Preacher and His Miracles - Salimbene Monastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century - John Busch Archibishop Baldwin of Canterbury - Giraldus Cambrensis A Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham - John Capgrave An Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy - Ordericus Vitalis The Habits of Priests in Normandy - Odo of Rigaud Statutes for a College - Robert de Sorbonne How the Student Should Behave - John of Garland THE NOBILITY: THE FIGHTERS The Function of Knighthood - John of Salisbury The Chivalric Ideal - Díaz de Gámez The Murder of a Feudal Lord - Galbert of Bruges The Battle of Poitiers - Geoffrey le Baker A Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century - Jörg von Ehingen The Rules of Courtly Love - Andreas Capellanus A Noble Household - Jean Froissart Offices in a Noble Household - John Russell Private Lives of the English Gentry - Stonor Letters THE PEASANTS AND BURGHERS: THE WORKERS The Feet of the Commonwealth - John of Salisbury The Duties of Manorial Officers - Seneschaucie The Peasant's Life - William Langland The Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale - Reginald of Durham Advice to a Norweigian Merchant - The King's Mirror The Successful Surgeon - John Arderne The Good Wife - The Goodman of Paris Life in London - Memorials of London Fashions in Italy - Sacchetti THE JEWS Papal Protection of the Jews - Pope Gregory X The Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry - Jacob von Königshofen Conflict, Protest, and Catastrophe A Revolt of the Commons in London - Roger of Wendover The Peasants' Revolt in England - Anonimalle Chronicle My Brother Man - Walther von der Vogelweide Piers Plowman's Protest - William Langland The Waldensian Heretics - Bernard Gui The Impact of the Black Death - Henry Knighton Paris during the Hundred Years' War - Journal d'un bourgeois Part Two: The Christian Commonwealth The Spiritual Authority The Superiority of the Spiritual Authority - Pope Bonfiace VIII The Election and ...
