GOVERNMENTAL, ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS
- See the specific Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
page
- Laws of
Alfred and Ine [In Anglo Saxon] [At Labryinth]
- Anglo Saxon Dooms, 560-975, In English. These
include:
- The Laws of Æthelberht, King of Kent 560-616 A.D.
- The Laws of Kings Hlothhære and Eadric 673-686 A.D.
- The Laws of King Wihtræd 690-725 A.D.
- The Laws of King Alfred 871-901 A.D.
- The Laws of King Edward the Elder, 901-924 A.D.
- The Laws of Alfred, Guthrum, and Edward the Elder
- The North People's Law
- Mercian Law
- The Laws of King Athelstan 924-939 A.D.
- The Laws of King Edmund I 939-946 A.D.
- The Laws of King Edgar 959-975 A.D.
- The Visigothic
Code (Forum iudicum) ed. and trans. by S.P. Scott (Print edition: Boston Book Company,
1910)[At Libro]
- Dialogue of the Exchequer, 1180s, [Full text of Book
First, titles of Book Second]
- Bracton: De Legibus Et
Consuetudinibus Angliæ (On the Laws and Customs of England), in English and Latin,
attributed to Henry of Bratton, (c.1210-1268), Full Text, [At Harvard]
- Anthology
of Chancery English [At UVA]
- René of Anjou: Tournament Book,
1406. [At Princeton]
Old French and English text of instructions on how to hold a tournement by King Rene of
Anjou.
- Transcript of Trial of Joan of Arc, 1431
- Paston
Family Letters and Papers [At UVA]
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RENAISSANCE TEXTS
- WEB I classici italiani in HTML [At
Nuovo Rinascimento] [Many Full texts - all in Italian]
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): The Digital Dante project [At
Columbia]
See also Guide to
E-Texts of Dante's Works, by Otto Lieberknecht [At Great Dante.net]; and Catholic Encyclopedia: Dante
Alighieri
- Dante Alighieri (1165-1321): Letter to
Cangrande. [At U. Penn]
Dante's letter explaining the Divine Comedy
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): La Divina
Commedia, [Complete, In Italian], [At La Dante]
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): Divine Comedy [In English]
The following etexts are available from Project Gutenberg
- Dante Alighieri (1265-1321): La Divina Commedia in Italian
- Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375):
- The Decameron Full text of English translation [Used
to be at Virginia Tech, now in one vert large ascii file at this Site]
- The Decameron,
in Italian and English [At Brown]
- Bartolus of Sassoferrato: On the Tyrant
(ca.1330); trans. Steve Lane [slane@tezcat.com]
- Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince,
1513, full text in HTML.
- Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527): The Prince, in
chapter files, full text, [At Bibliomania]
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration
on the Dignity of Man, full text, [At Santa Fe]
- Baldesar Castiglione (1478-1529): The Book of the Courtier,
translated by Sir Thomas Hoby (1561), full text [At Oregon]
[The English is too archaic for classroom use.]
- Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533): Orlando
Furioso ("Orlando Enraged") [At OMACL]
- Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574): Lives of the
Artists, Complete in English [Were at UM Baltimore, now here]
- Torquato Tasso (1544-1595): Gerusalemme
Liberata ("Jerusalem Delivered") [At OMACL]
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REFORMATION TEXTS
- WEB Project
Wittenberg
A collection of Lutheran historical texts - by Luther and other leading early figures such
as Melanchthon.
- WEB Modern History Sourcebook for
more texts.
- Martin Luther: Theologia
Germanica [At CCEL] See also Catholic
Encyclopedia: MARTIN LUTHER
- Martin Luther: The German Mass
and Order of Divine Service [At Hanover]
- Martin Luther: The Larger
Cathechism" [At CCEL]
- Martin Luther: Preface to Romans [At CCEL]
- Martin Luther: Von
der Freiheit eines Christenmenschen The Freedom of A Christian Man, [In German] [At
Heilengenlexikon]
- Martin Luther: On
the Freedom of a Christian, full text
- Martin Luther: A Christian
sermon over the body and at the funeral of the venerable Dr. Martin Luther, preached
by Mr. Johann Bugenhagen Pomeranus, doctor and pastor of the churches in Wittenberg.
Printed in Wittenberg by Georg Rhau,in the year 1546. [At Emory.edu]
- "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.
- John Calvin (1509-64)
[Information, At CCEL] See also Catholic
Encyclopedia: Calvin, John
- John Calvin (1509-1564): The Institutes
[At CCEL]
- John Calvin (1509-1564): Biblical Commentaries
[At CCEL]
- John Foxe (1516-1587): Book of Martyrs
[At CCEL]
- Westminster Confession of Faith,
1646 [At Presbyterian reformed Site]
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CATHOLIC REFORMATION TEXTS
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WEB The Early Church
Fathers
Note The Medieval Sourcebook aims to present classroom sized texts. But a
major resource for many scholars are the translations in the Early Church Fathers
Series. The entire 38 volume set is now available on line. Some of it is nicely marked
up, other texts are available only in large lumps of text. The Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Wheaton College is
to site with the texts. The Library has made the texts available in both text, zipped,
and, where possible, HTML form. The following information and links have been lifted
directly from the Ethereal Library site
The Early Church Fathers is a 38-volume collection of writings from the first 800 years
of the Church. This collection is divided into three series, the Ante-Nicene, Nicene, and
Post-Nicene Fathers.
These files have the majority of the text printed in the actual books -- however, some
portions have been excluded, such as the prefaces written by the editors, footnotes,
indices, etc. In fact, Volume IX of the Ante-Nicene Series was omitted because it consists
entirely of index information. --Adapted from the introduction to the Electronic Bible Society CD-ROM Volume 1.
These volumes are in the process of being converted to multi-file HTML webs. The
volumes that have not yet been converted are available as large text files of 1.5 to 3.5
MB each. Because of this and because the text paragraphs are not wrapped, you will
probably have to download them to your system and read them with a word processor. A
windows-based word processor is preferable because some special characters from the
Windows character set are used. Some of the volumes that have been converted to HTML webs
can be downloaded as a single zip file via FTP -- look for a file called
html-web.zip.
You will soon be able to get the Early Church Fathers commercially on a CD-ROM from Logos Research, in a much improved form. Look for major
improvements here, as well, in the next couple of years.
These files are also available, usefully, in plain text form, split up into the
various works, and with many typos eliminated at EWTN.
EWTN is a conservative Catholic web site and has removed, as "too Protestant"
all the notes and introductory matter from the files. In some cases this may have been justified, in other cases good scholarship was discarded because it offended against some
modern standard of orthodoxy. Although EWTN has stuck on a claim to copyright to the
"electronic form" of these texts, they are in fact all public domain in the US.
Ante-Nicene Fathers to A.D. 325
Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, editors.
Volume I -- The Apostolic Fathers
with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus: Clement, Mathetes, Polycarp, Ignatius, Barnabas, Papias,
Justin Martyr, Irenaeus.
Volume II -- Fathers of the Second Century: Hermas, Tatian, Theophilus,
Athenagoras, Clement of Alexandria.
Volume III -- Latin Christianity:
Its Founder Tertullian: I. Apologetic, II. Anti-Marcion, III. Ethical.
Volume IV -- Fathers of the Third Century: Tertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodianus, Origen.
Volume V -- Fathers of the Third Century: Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian,
Appendix: Baptism of Heretics, Anonymous Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian, Anonymous
Treatise on Rebaptism.
Volume VI -- Fathers of the Third Century: Gregory Thaumaturgus, Dionysius the
Great, Julius Africanus, Anatolius and Minor Writers, Archelaus, Alexander of Lycopolis,
Peter of Alexandria, Alexander of Alexandria, Methodius, Arnobius.
Volume VII -- Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Lactantius, Dionysius of
Rome, Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, Constitutions of the Holy Apostles, The Homily
Ascribed to Clement, Early Liturgies.
Volume VIII -- Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries: Testaments of the Twelve
Patriarchs, Theodotus: Excerpts, Epistles Concerning Virginity, Pseudo-Clementine
Literature, Apocrypha of the New Testament, Decretals Memoire of Edessa and Ancient Syriac
Documentary remains of the Second and Third Centuries.
Volume IX -- Original supplement to the American Edition: Gospel of Peter,
Diatessaron of Tatian, Apocalypse of Peter, Visio Pauli, Apocalypses of the Virgin and of
Sedrach, Testament of Abraham, Acts of Xanthippe and Polyxena, Narrative of Zosimus,
Apology of Aeristedes, Epistles of Clement (complete), Origen's Commentaries on John and
Matthew (partial).
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series I
Philip Schaff, editor
St. Augustine Volumes:
Volume I
-- Prolegomena;
Life and Works; Confessions; Letters
Volume II -- The City of God;
Christian Doctrine
Volume III -- Doctrinal
Treatises; Moral Treatises
Volume IV -- Anti-Manichaean
and Anti-Donatist Writings
Volume V --
Anti-Pelagian Writings
Volume VI -- The
Sermon on the Mount; Harmony of the Gospels; Homilies on the Gospels
Volume VII --
Homilies on the Gospel and the First Epistle of John; Soliloquies
Volume VIII -- Expositions on
the Psalms
St. Chrysostom Volumes:
Volume IX
-- Prolegomena; On
the Priesthood; Ascetic Treatises; Select Homilies and Letters; Homilies on the Statues
Volume X -- Homilies on the
Gospel of St. Matthew
Volume XI -- Homilies on the
Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Romans
Volume XII -- Homilies on the
Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
Volume XIII -- Homilies on
Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, Thessalonians, Timothy, Titus, and Philemon
Volume XIV -- Homilies on the
Gospel of St. John and the Epistle to the Hebrews
NICENE AND POST-NICENE FATHERS, Series II
Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, editors
Volume I -- Eusebius; Church
History; Life of Constantine the Great; Oration in Praise of Constantine
Volume II -- Socrates Scholasticus: Ecclesiastical History; Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History
Volume III -- Theodoret:
Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, Letters; Jerome and Gennadius: Illustrious Men; Rufinus
and Jerome; Life of Rufinus; Apology vs. Rufinus
Volume IV -- Athanasius:
Select Works and Letters
Volume V -- Gregory
of Nyssa: Select Writings and Letters; Dogmatic Treatises
Volume VI -- St. Jerome:
Letters and Select Works
Volume VII -- St. Cyril of
Jerusalem: Catechetical Lectures; St. Gregory Nazianzen: Select Orations, Sermons,
Letters; Dogmatic Treatises
Volume VIII -- St. Basil:
Treatise De Spiritu Sancto; Nine Homilies of Hexaemeron
-Volume IX -- St.
Hilary of Poitiers: Select Works on the Trinity and Psalms; John
of Damascus: Exposition of Faith
Volume X -- St. Ambrose:
Principal Works, Dogmatic Treatises, Ethical Works, etc.
Volume XI -- Sulpitius Severus:
Extant Works; Vincent of Lerins: The Catholic Faith; John Cassian: Conferences On the
Incarnation vs. Nestorius
Volume XII -- Leo the Great:
Letters, Sermons; Gregory the Great: Pastoral Rule, etc.
Volume XIII -- Gregory the
Great: Selected Epistles; Ephraim the Syrian: Hymns, Homilies; Aphrahat: Demonstrations
Volume XIV -- The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church; Canons and
Decrees; Canons of Local Synods with Ecumenical Acceptance
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