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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Accessions List
Additions in Current YearPaul
Halsall, ORB sources editorThe Internet Medieval Sourcebook is now part of
ORB, the Online Reference Book
for Medieval Studies.
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Recorded here are all primary source texts as they are
added to any part of the Sourcebook (Selected Sources, Full Texts, or Saints' Lives).
Texts added on the Fordham Server are listed as available 00/00/00; texts on other
servers are listed as available via here 00/00/00. Although there are also
secondary sources in the Sourcebook, they are not listed here.
March 2001
- "On The Jews and Their Lies", a treatise by Martin Luther (translated by Martin H. Bertram, Luther's Works, Vol. 47: The Christian In Society IV, ed. by Franklin Sherman (c) 1971
Fortress Press, pages 121-306) has been removed because of copyright objections. We will attempt
to provide a new translation of the German text at some point, but meanwhile welcome a translation
any scholar wishes to supply.
- Cain Adamnain: An Old-Irish Treatise on the Law of
Adamnan Available 3/4/2001
- Caradoc of Llancarfan: The Life of Gildas,1130-1150.Available
3/4/2001
- 2ND Jocelyn, a monk of Furness: The Life of Kentigern (Mungo), translated by
Cynthia Whidden Green Available 3/4/2001
- Cynthia Whidden Green: Saint
Kentigern, Apostle to Strathclyde: A critical analysis of a northern saint Available
3/4/2001
February 2001
- The Life of Lazaros of Mt. Galesion: An
Eleventh-Century Pillar Saint [At DO] Available 2/26/2001
A good part of the published translation. In PDF Format
- Heron of Byzantium: Siegecraft: Two
Tenth-Century Instructional Manuals PDF Format [At DO] Available 2/26/2001
- Ibn Battuta (1307-1377 CE): Travels in Asia and
Africa 1325-1354 Available 2/26/2001
- Nasir-i-Khusraw (1046-1052): Book
of Travels (Safarnama) [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available
2/25/2001
- Daniel (1106-1107): The
Pilgrimage of the Russian Abbot Daniel in the Holy Land, 1106-1107 A.D., annotated by
Sir C. W.Wislon (London, 1895) [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available
2/25/2001
- Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173): The Itinerary of Benjamin of
Tudela Critical Text, Translation and Commentary by Marcus Nathan Adler. [At Traveling
to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available 2/25/2001
- Bar Sauma (c. 1278-1313): The Monk of Kublai Khan, Emperor of
China; or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and
Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe and Markos who as Yahbh-Allaha
III Became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church. Translated by E.A. Wallis Budge,
London: The Religious Track Society, 1928. [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth
Colorado] Available 2/25/2001
- Anonymous: Guide-book
to Palestine. (c. 1350). Translated by. J. H. Barnard. London: Palestine
Pilgrims’ Text Society, 1894. [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available
2/25/2001
- Margery Kempe (1413-1415): Book
of Margery Kempe. (Text--Butler-Bowden translation of Chapter 26-34, 37-41)[At
Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available 2/25/2001
- John Poloner (1422): Description
of the Holy Land (c. 1421), based on the translation of Aubrey Stewart from the Tobler
text. London, 1894. [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available 2/25/2001
- Felix Fabri (1480 & 1483-84): The Book of the Wanderings of Felix
Fabri (Circa 1480-1483 A.D.) trans. Aubrey Stewart. 2 vols. London: Palestine
Pilgrims' Text Society, 1896 [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available
2/25/2001
- Pietro Casola (1494): Canon
Pietro Casola's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the Year 1494. trans. Mary Margaret Newett.
Manchester: The University Press, 1907. [At Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available
2/25/2001
- Henry Timberlake (1601-1603): A True and Strange discourse
of the traveiles of two English pilgrimes: What admirable accidents befell them in their
journey to Jerusalem, Gaza, Grand Cayro, Alexandria, and other places [At
Traveling to Jerusalem/U Sth Colorado] Available 2/25/2001
- Alexander Kinglake: Eothen or
Traces of Travel Brought Back from the East. London: J. Ollivier, 1844. [At UMD}Available
2/25/2001
- Mark Twain: Innocents
Abroad; or, The New Pilgrim's Progress (1869) [At Virginia] Available
2/25/2001
- Charles Warren (1884): The Survey of
Western Palestine [At TempleMount] Available 2/25/2001
- 2ND Jessica A. Browner: "Viking"
Pilgrimage to the Holy Land fram! fram! cristmenn, crossmenn, konungsmenn! (Oláfs
saga helga, ch. 224.). Essays in History 34 (1992) Available 2/25/2001
- Ibn Fadlan. Risala 921 CE [At
VikingAnswerLady]
Ibn Fadlan was an Arab chronicler. In 921 C.E., the Caliph sent Ibn Fadlan with an embassy
to the King of the Bulgars of the Middle Volga. Ibn Fadlan wrote an account of his
journeys with the embassy, called a Risala. This Risala is of great value as a
history, although it is clear in some places that inaccuracies and Ibn Fadlan's own
prejudices have slanted the account to some extent. Available 2/25/2001
- Egeria: Travelogue,
Translated by M.L. McClure, The Pilgrimage of Etheria, (New York, 1915) [At Yale]
Available 2/25/2001
- Anna Comnena (1093-after 1148): The Alexiad.
[Full text] Available 2/21/2001
The account of her father, the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I, by Princess Anna
Comnena is perhaps the most important historical work by a woman writer written before the
modern period.
- A Late-Medieval Spanish Nobleman: Don Juan
Pacheco, Master of the Order of Santiago (1419-1474), with original notes,
translated by Simon Doubleday Available 2/21/2001
- Peter Abelard (1079-1142): Prologue to
Sic et Non, translated by Wendy Lewis available 2/21/2001
- Agobard of Lyons (9th Century): On Hail
and Thunder translated by Wendy Lewis available 2/21/2001
- Agobard of Lyons (9th Century): On the Deception of Certain Signs translated by Wendy Lewis available 2/21/2001
October 2000
- William of Newburgh: History, full text available 10/24/2000
- The Correspondence of St. Boniface available
10/24/2000
- Suetonius: Lives of the Caesars [Index to all
the lives] available 10/24/2000
- The Visigothic Code (Forum iudicum) ed. and trans. by S.P. Scott (Print edition: Boston Book Company, 1910)
[At Libro] available 10/24/2000
- Kenneth Baxter: Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (Cambridge University Press, 1988) [At Libro] available
10/24/2000
- Hippolyte Delehaye: The Legends of the Saints: An
Introduction to Hagiography (1907) available 10/22/2000
The complete texts of a classic work.
- Prudentius. Peristephanon.
Book 3: Panting for God. [At Electronic Antiquity] [Complete text available in Latin] available 10/22/2000
- St. John of the Cross: Obras
Completas [In Spanish, At MonteCarmelo] available 10/18/2000
- St. Theresa of Avila: Obras
Completas [In Spanish, At MonteCarmelo] available 10/18/2000
- St. Theresa of Lisieux: Obras
Completas [In Spanish, At MonteCarmelo] available 10/18/2000
- Sophronius Patriarch of Jerusalem. Two Poems on
the Holy City (Anacreontica XIX and XX) - ca. 600 A.D. [At Christus Rex] available
10/15/2000
- The
Itinerary of the Anonymous Pilgrim of Bordeaux (Itinerarium Burdigalense) - 333 A.D.
[At Christus Rex] available 10/15/2000
- Egeria. Description of the
Liturgical Year in Jerusalem: Translation [At Oxford] available 10/15/2000
- Huneberc of Heidenheim. Prologue
to the Hodoeporicon of St. Willibald. c. 750-75CE. Alternate trans. by Thomas Head [At
ORB] available 10/15/2000
- Bertholdus of Micy. Life
of St. Maximinus excerpts on the story of the founding abbot of Micy, located near
Orléans, composed in the early ninth century. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Amulo of Lyon. Letter on the
Misuse of Relics in Dijon. mid-9th Century. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Claudius of Turin. Apology:
An Attack on Veneration of Relics. 8-9th Cent. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Theodoric of St. Eucharius. Discovery
of the Relics of St. Celsus in Trier in 978, excerpts. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Letaldus of Micy. Journey of
the Relics of St. Junianus, including a description of the Peace Council of Charroux
in 989. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available 10/15/2000
- Ademar of Chabanne's Chronicle:
Discovery of the Head of John the Baptist, 1016. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Andrew of Fleury. Miracles of
St. Benedict. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available 10/15/2000
A description of the Peace League of Bourges and its campaign in 1038.
- Anonymous. Life of St.
Gregory of Nicopolis. Excerpts on his burial, Early 11th Cent. Trans. by Thomas Head
[At ORB] available 10/15/2000
- Peter Damian. Life of Romuald.
excerpts on his relics of a hermit. Late 11th Cent. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Anonymous. A Miracle of St.
Maximinus, c. 1050-75. Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available 10/15/2000
Description of the pilgrimage and miraculous cure of a single individual.
- Guibert of Nogent. On the
Relics of the Saints: Book I, Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
- Hugh of Fleury. Life,
Translation, and Miracles of St. Sacerdos: Prologue, Trans. by Thomas Head [At ORB] available
10/15/2000
Discussing his methodology as a hagiographer and historian reconstructing the life of a
long dead saint.
- Dominican Order: The
Lifes of the Brethren of the Order of Preachers, 1206-59 [At Dominican Central] available
10/12/2000
- St. Dominic: Biographical
Documents, edited with an Introduction By Francis C. Lehner, O.P. [At Dominican
Central] available 10/12/2000
- Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend (Aurea
Legenda) 1275, As englished by William Caxton, 1483
The full text of the 7 volume Temple Classics edition, available in large volume files,
and individual feast/saint files. available 10/12/2000
- Willibald: The Life of St. Boniface available
10/12/2000
- Life of Irene, Abbess of the Convent of
Chrysobalanton, trans. Jan Olof Rosenqvist.available 10/11/2000
- Eigil: Life of Sturm, early 9th Century available
10/11/2000
- Alcuin: The Life of Willibrord, c.796 available
10/11/2000
- The Life of Lebuin, 10th Century available
10/11/2000
- Huneberc of Heidenheim: The Hodoeporican of St. Willibald,
8th Century available 10/11/2000
- Chinese Accounts of
Rome, Byzantium and the Middle East, c. 91 B.C.E. - 1643 C.E. available
10/10/2000
- Chu Yuan-Chang: Manifesto
of Accession as First Ming Emperor, 1372 C.E. available 10/10/2000
Sent to the Byzantine Emperor.
September 2000
October 1999
September 1999
- Judah Ha-Levi (ca 1075-1141): The Kuzari, also known as The Book of Argument and Proof in Defense of the Despised Faith (Kitab al
Khazari). available 9/10/1999
The entire first book of the Kuzari, a philosophical treatise written by the
Spanish Jewish philosopher and poet, Judah Ha-Levi. It is written in the form of a
dialogue, purportedly between the king of the Khazars and the representatives of various
belief systems, culminating with a rabbi.
- A Business Partnership between a Jew and
Christian in Barcelona, 1235-1242 CE available 9/10/1999
Documents on exploitation of royal mills by Jews and Christians in Barcelona.
- Jews and Christians in Teruel: The Fuero of Teruel,
1176 CE available 9/10/1999
Excerpts from the Fuero, or urban ordinance.
- Ordinance of the Jews of the Crown of
Aragon, 1354 CE available 9/10/1999
This ordinance or takkanah was the product of an increased sense of Jewish
vulnerability in the years after the Black Death (1348).
- Synod of Castilian Jews, 1432 available
9/10/1999
Ordinances from assembly of the Jews of the kingdom of Castile at Valladolid in
1432.
January 1999
- The Monk of Saint Gall (Notker the Stammerer): The
Life of Charlemagne, c. 883/4, full text. available 1/29/1998
- Alpamysh, a Central Asian, Turkic epic, [At
ukc.ac.uk] and here [At Kansas] available 1/26/1998
Full text of H.B. Paksoy, ALPAMYSH Central Asian Identity under Russian Rule (Hartford, Connecticut: AACAR, 1989), including translation
- Michael Psellus (1018-after 1078): Chronographia,
full text. available 1/26/1998
The history of the Roman Empire 976-1078 by one of the liveliest writers of the middle
ages.
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375): The Decameron available
1/26/1998
Full text of English translation [Used to be at Virginia Tech, now in one very large ascii
file at this Site]
- Geoffrey Chaucer (d. 1400): The Canterbury Tales available
1/26/1998
[original language in one text file] - useful for word searches.
- 2ND Arthur Koestler: The Thirteenth Tribe: The Khazar Empire and its
Heritage, full text, 1976 [At SMOM-ZA.ORG] available 1/26/1998
- Jack Cade: Proclamation of Grievances, 1450 available 1/17/1998
- Gerald of Wales: A Witty Jew, c. 1185 available 1/17/1998
- Richard I of England: Charter by Which
Many Liberties are Granted and Confirmed to the Jews, 22 March, 1190 available
1/17/1998
- A Rabbinic Responsum: The Shabbat Goy available 1/17/1998
- English Jewry is Organised: The Ordinances of the Jews,
1194 available 1/17/1998
- Peter of Blois: Against the Perfidy of the
Jews , before 1198 available 1/17/1998
- The Abbey of St. Edmund’s and the Jews,
1173-1182 available 1/17/1998
- King John of England and the Jews: Charters,
c.1201 available 1/17/1998
- From the Dialogue of the Exchequer: On
Usury, c.1170 available 1/17/1998
- Appointment of an Archpriest of the Jews in
England, July 1199 available 1/17/1998
- Contact between English Jews and
Christians: Two Twelfth-century Views available 1/17/1998
- Gilbert Crispin: Disputation of a Jew with a
Christian about the Christian Faith, before 1096
- An Israelite Bishop without Guile, c. 1168 available 1/17/1998
- Gerald of Wales: Two Cistercian Monks
turn Jews, before 1200 available 1/17/1998
- Anselm of Canterbury: How to Treat a Convert,
before 1100 available 1/17/1998
- Gerald of Wales: Barnacle Geese Should
Convince the Jew of the Immaculate Conception, 1188 available 1/17/1998
- Agobard of Lyon: On the Insolence of the Jews To
Louis the Pious, trans. William L. North, 826/827 available 1/17/1998
- Agobard of Lyon: On the Baptism of Slaves
Belonging to Jews (to Adalard, Wala, and Helisachar), trans. William L. North available 1/17/1998
- Agobard of Lyon: On Injustices to Mathfrid, trans.
William L. North, c. 822-February 828 available 1/17/1998
- Bruno of Segni: A Pamphlet on Simoniacs,
trans. William L. North, late 11th Century. available 1/17/1998
- Frederick II: Lictere Generales,
establishing the University of Naples, trans. Mario Spagnuolo, 1224 available
1/17/1998
- Court Rolls of The Manor of Wakefield,
1274-1297 available 1/17/1998
- St. Vincent of Lerins: The "Vincentian
Canon", 434 CE available 1/17/1998
- Gildas (c.504-570): Works, full text available
1/12/1998
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