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Editor: Paul Halsall

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is located at the
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Sub-
Indexes

Subjects covered by the source texts in each sub-section.

Studying History
  • Using Primary Sources
  • Close Reading
  • Medieval Documents
  • Accessing Medieval Documents
  • The Uses of History
The End of Rome & the Three Successor Civilizations
End of the Classical World
  • Pagan Late Antiquity
    • Late Antique Government and Culture
    • The "Fall" of the Roman Empire
  • Christian Late Antiquity
    • Early Christianity After 100
    • Persecution of Christians
    • The "Triumph" of the Church
    • Persecution by Christians/The End of Paganism
    • Early Dogmatic Disputes
      • Disputes over the Trinity: Arianism
      • Disputes over Christology: Nestorianism and Monophysitism
    • The World of the Church Fathers
      • Eastern Fathers
      • Western Fathers
    • Christianity and Classical Learning
  • The German Impact
    • Early Germans
    • Invading Germans/Other "Barbarians"
Byzantium
  • General
  • Foundations
  • Justinian (b.483- r.527-d.565)
    • Justinian and Theodora
    • Government
    • Society and Economy
    • Church Policy
    • Wars
    • Buildings
    • Laws
  • After Justinian
  • Iconoclasm
  • Byzantine Imperial Centuries (843-1204)
    • Macedonian Dynasty
    • Eleventh Century Conflicts
    • The Komnenoi
  • The Final Centuries
    • The Crusades and Latin Empire (1204-1261)
    • The Nicean Period
    • The Palaiologoi
    • The Peloponnese and Mistra
    • Trebizond
    • The Fall of Constantinople and Aftermath
    • After Byzantium
  • Byzantine Religion
    • General Religion
    • Ecclesiastical Organization
    • Theology
    • Spirituality
    • Liturgy
    • Sanctity
    • Monasticism
    • Heresy and Dissent
  • The Byzantine Commonwealth
    • Syria
    • Armenia
    • Bulgaria
    • Serbia/Montenegro
    • Vikings
    • Inner Asia
  • The Byzantine Commonwealth: Russia
  • Accounts of Byzantium by Others
Islam
  • General
  • Pre-Islamic Arabia
  • Muhammad and Foundations - to 632 CE
  • Islamic Expansion and Empire - to 750 CE
  • The Abbasid Caliphate - after 750 CE
    • Politics
    • Philosophy
    • Science
    • Literature
    • Crusades
  • Al-Andalus: Muslim Spain
  • Muslim Persia
  • Egypt and North Africa
  • Muslim Religious Development
    • Muslim Life
    • The Sunni Tradition
    • The Shia Tradition
    • Sufism
    • Relations with Other Religions
  • The Turks
The Formation of Latin Christendom
The Church
  • The Rise of the Church of Rome
  • Monasticism to A.D. 900
    • Eastern Origins
    • Celtic Monasticism
    • The Benedictine Movement
  • The Conversion of Europe
    • Franks
    • Celtic Missions
    • England
    • Germany
    • Scandinavia
    • The Slavs
    • Rus
    • Other Missionary Areas
Early Germanic States
  • Romanized (Christian) Goths
    • Vandals
    • Ostrogoths
    • Visgoths
    • Lombards
  • Non-Christian Germans
    • Franks
    • Northlands/Scandinavia
  • Germanic Cultures
Anglo-Saxons
  • Britain after the Romans
  • Anglo-Saxons
  • Arthuriana
Celtic World
  • The Celtic Loss of Britain
  • Wales
  • Scotland
  • Ireland
  • Brittany
  • Celtic Christianity
  • Celtic Literature
Carolingians and After
  • The Rise of the Carolingian Dynasty and Papal Support
    • Charles Martel
    • Pepin
  • Charlemagne
    • Personality
    • Wars
  • Legal and Social Documents
  • Carolingian Culture
  • Carolingian and later East Francia (Germany)
  • Carolingian and later West Francia (France)
  • Carolingian Decline and Division
Western Collapse and Recovery
Crisis, Recovery, Feudalism?
  • External Attacks: Vikings: Magyars: Arabs
    • The Collapse of Security
    • A Castellan Revolution
    • Viking Adventures
    • The Viking World
  • Feudalism?
    • Essay on the Problem
    • Online Reviews of Fiefs and Vassals
    • Oaths and Contracts
    • Methods of  Land Transfer
      • Inheritance
      • Grants
      • Fiefs
    • Methods of Government
    • Methods of Supporting an Army
    • Development of the Later Legal Terminology of "Feudalism"
    • A Militarized Society
    • Monetization of Military Activity
  • The Ottonian Dynasty and After
  • The Y1K Problem: The Year 1000
Economic Life
  • Economic Life Before the 11th Century
    • Late Antique Italy
    • The Merovingian Era
    • The Carolingian Economy
    • Anglo-Saxon England
    • Celtic World
  • Roots of the Commercial Revolution
    • Population Growth
    • Attitude Towards Work
    • The Control and Granting of Rights
  • Trade and Commerce
    • Money and Coinage
    • Credit
    • Fairs and Markets
    • State Interference in Trade
    • Sea Trade
    • Long Distance Trade
    • Mid-Distance Trade
    • The Slave Trade
    • The Hanse
    • Tolls
    • Book-Keeping
    • Business Contracts
    • Prices
  • The Rise of Towns
    • The Communal Movement
    • Bourgeois Institutions: Gilds
      • Craft Gilds
      • Gild Merchants
    • Legal Controls
    • Urban Cultures
  • Industries
    • General
    • Mining
    • Tanning
    • Cloth Manufacture
    • Masonry
  • The State and the Economy
    • Taxation
  • The Church and the Economy
    • General
    • Tithes
    • Tax Exemptions
    • Monastic Property
      • Cartulary of Saint Trond
    • Slavery and Serfdom
  • Economic Thought
  • Rural Life
    • The Peasantry
      • Farming Activity
      • Legal Position
      • Peasant Customary Obligations
      • Peasant Revolts
    • Manorialism
    • Archeology of Medieval Villages
  • The Big Picture
    • The Medieval Economy in the Context of Ancient and Modern Economies
    • The Crucial Role of Egypt
    • World Systems Theory
    • The Great Transition
Crusades
  • General
  • Background
  • The First Crusade
    • Urban II's Speech, 1095
    • Attacks on the Jews
    • The Journeys and Battles of the Crusade
    • The Historians of the First Crusade
    • "Crusades" after the First Crusade
  • The Kingdom of Jerusalem
    • Government
    • Economics
    • Cultures
    • Christian Muslim Interaction
  • The Crusader Orders
    • General
    • Templars
    • Hospitallers
    • Teutonic Knights
  • The Second Crusade and Aftermath
    • Calling the Crusade
    • Successes and Failures
    • Criticism of the Crusade
  • The Third Crusade
    • Latin Problems
    • The Loss of Jerusalem
    • The Failure of Europe's Monarchs
    • The German Crusade of 1197
  • The Fourth Crusade
  • The Fifth and Later Crusades
    • St Louis' Crusades
    • The Fall of the Latin East
  • The Effects of the Crusade Ideal in the West
Varieties of Medieval States
Empire and Papacy
  • Introductory Essay
  • Phase I: The Invesituture Controversy
    • Emergence of Reform Ideology
    • The Conflict over Invesitures
    • Solutions
  • Phase II: Barbarossa: The Empire at its Height
    • General
    • The Besançon Episode 1157
    • Barbarossa and Alexander III
    • Barbarossa in Italy
    • Canonical Response
  • Innocent III: The Papacy at its Height
  • The Holy Roman Empire: Frederick II and After
    • Frederick II
    • The Empire's Regions
  • The Papacy Overreaches
    • Papal Claims
    • Reaction: Political
    • Reaction: Intellectual and Theological
France
  • General
  • The Regions of the Kingdom of France
  • The Rise of Capetian France
    • Louis VI
  • The France of Philip II Augustus
  • St. Louis (King Louis IX)
  • Philip IV
  • The Apanage System
  • Burgundy
  • Paris
  • The Hundred Years War
    • Joan of Arc
England
  • Norman England
    • The Conquest 1066
    • William I: Administration & the Domesday Book
    • William II
    • Henry I and the Norman Regnum
  • Angevin England
    • Henry II
      • The Man and His Family
      • Thomas Becket
      • Wars
      • Administration & Origins of Common Law
    • Richard I Lionheart
    • England under Angevin Rule
  • Parliamentary Origins in England
    • Common Law: A Law of Real Property
    • The Barons Revolt and Magna Carta
    • The Struggle of Henry III and His Barons
    • Parliament Coalesces
  • Later Medieval England
    • Government
    • Henry III
    • Edward I
    • Legal Texts
      • Select Pleas
    • Yorkists and Lancastrians
    • The Tudor Victory
Celtic States
  • Scotland
  • Ireland
Nordic Europe
  • General
  • Sweden
  • Denmark
  • Norway
  • Orkney, Shetland, and Faroees
  • Iceland
  • Greenland
  • Vinland
Iberia
  • General
  • Visigothic Spain
  • Al-Andulus: Moorish Spain
  • The "Reconquista"
  • Leon and Castile
  • Aragon
  • Portugal
  • The Life of Christian Spain
  • Seferad: Jewish Spain
Italy
  • General
  • South Italy
  • Sicily
  • Florence
  • Milan
  • Venice
  • Other Cities
Eastern Europe
  • General
  • Bulgaria
  • Serbia
  • Rus' and Russia
  • Poland and Lithuania
  • Czech Lands
  • Hungary
  • Romanians
  • Northern Crusades
The Flowering of Western Medieval Civilization
Intellectual Life
  • General
  • Carolingian Thought
  • 11th-12th Century Thought
    • Legal Studies
    • Philosophy: The Emergence of the Scholastic Approach
    • Jewish Thinkers
    • Intuitive Theology
    • Abelard and Heloise
    • The Discovery of the Individual?
  • 13th-14th Century Scholasticism
    • Educational Institutions
    • Theology and Philosophy
    • Aquinas
    • Bonaventure
    • Averroëists
    • Nominalists
  • Rhetoric
  • Medieval Political Thought
  • Science and Technology
  • Western European Literature
    • General
    • Epic
    • Lyric
    • Romance
    • Drama
High Medieval Church
  • Western Monasticism - After A.D. 900
    • Benedictines
    • Cluny
    • Cistercians
    • Carthusians
    • Other Orders
    • Women's Monasticism
  • The Mendicant Orders
    • Franciscans
    • Dominicans
    • Other Orders
  • The Secular Clergy
    • Cathedral Chapters
    • Parish Pastoral Clergy
  • Medieval Heresy
    • General
    • Waldensianism
    • Catharism
    • The Inquisition
    • Lollardy
    • Hussites
  • Christian Spirituality
    • The Life of Christ
    • The Cultus of the Virgin Mary
    • Saints and Relics
    • Pilgrimage
    • The Sacramental System
      • The Eucharist
      • Penance
      • Confirmation
      • Heaven, Hell, and In Between
    • Aspects of Popular Beliefs
Jewish Life
  • General
  • Jewish Communities and Individuals
    • Khazaria
    • In Islam
    • In Christian Iberia
    • In France/Germany
    • Relations between Christians and Jews
  • Jewish Economic Activity
  • Jews and the State
    • Roman Empire
    • Islam
    • Christian Iberia
    • France/Germany
    • England
  • Jewish Intellectual and Religious Life
  • Anti-Semitism
Social History
  • General
  • Social Classes
    • Slaves
      • The Slave Trade
      • The Church and Slavery
    • Peasants
    • Aristocracies
  • Medieval People Reflected in Literature
    • Langland
    • Chaucer
    • Villon
  • Law: Theory and Practice
Sex and Gender
  • Women's Roles
    • General
    • Women in Religion
    • Women as Writers
    • Women in Politics
    • Noblewomen
    • "Middle" Class Women
    • Towns Women
    • Peasant Women
    • Jewish Women
    • Women at Home
    • Women at Work Outside the Home
    • Women in Business Activities
    • Woman and Misogyny
  • Men's Roles
  • Constructions of Sexuality and Gender
    • General
    • Legal Control of Sexualuty
    • Theological Norms
    • Homoerotic/Transgendered Subcultures
  • Marriage
    • General
    • Theology
    • Law and Marriage
    • Married Lives
Transformations
States and Society
  • The "Calamitous" 14th Century
    • A Malthusian Crisis?
    • The Black Death
    • Warfare
  • Ecclesiastical Disarray
    • The Great Schism
    • Conciliarism
    • The Papal Response
  • Late Medieval Governments
    • The Empire
    • Italy
    • France
      • Joan of Arc
    • England
Renaissance
  • Early Italian Humanism
    • Dante
    • Petrarch
  • Artists
  • Politics and Politicians
  • The Arts of Civilization
  • The Northern Renaissance
Reformation
  • General
  • Protestant Reformation
    • Luther
    • Calvin
    • Radicals
    • Religious Wars
    • England
  • Catholic Reformation
Exploration and Expansion
  • General
    • Drang Nach Osten
  • Western Orientalism
  • Maritime Exploration and Conquest
    • Portuguese Exploration
    • Columbus

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© Site Concept and Design: Paul Halsall created 26 Jan 1996: latest revision 11 March 2024 [CV]