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Internet Medieval Sourcebook: Full Text Sources

Paul Halsall, ORB sources editor

The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is now part of 
ORB, the Online Reference Book 
for Medieval Studies.

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Last Modified: March 23, 2007   


Guide to Contents

The structure of this section of the Sourcebook is as follows. You can browse through the entire list, or jump directly to the part that interests you by selecting the underlined links.

  • Main Page
    will take you back to Sourcebook main page.
  • Selected Sources  will take you to the index of selected and excerpted medieval sources.
  • Saints' Lives will take you to the page on hagiography. Note - full text saints' lives are not listed in this "Full Text Sources" page.
  • Medieval Legal History will take you to the page on the history of law page.
  • Search the Sourcebook will enable searches of the full texts of all the source texts at Fordham, at ORB, or selected ancient, late antique, and medieval text databases.

Full Text Sources for Medieval History

Note: It may also be worth checking out the slightly mistitled Early Church Documents page of the ECOLE Project. It contains a purely alphabetical listing of historical texts (many of them here) up until circa 1300. It is especially good for varied links to various works of each of the Church Fathers.

NOTES: 
  • copyrighted means the text is not available for free distribution. In some cases alternate versions are available, and are working through the pipeline. 
  • pub.dom means texts are public domain, or a I know public domain version exists, but I do not yet have an etext copy [feel free to send me a copy] 
  • Availability date used to be given for each text as an aid to those wanting to see what was new in the Sourcebook. This feature has been discontinued. To see new material in order of addition to the Sourcebook see the New Accessions list.
  • WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview.

CHURCH COUNCILS

For texts in the Ante-Nicene, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers series, see below 


NOTE: The texts at this site here are public domain English translations from the Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers series for the first Seven ecumenical councils and from H.J. Schroeder, Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils, (St. Louis: B. Herder, 1937) [US Copyright expired - confirmed by TAN books, current owner of B. Herder's list]. These are not necessarily the best available sources for the various council texts, although they are quite serviceable, and the notes in the NPNF series are very useful. More recent editions and translations should be consulted for serious academic publication purposes. I have prepared a Guide to Documentary Sources for Catholic Teaching which lists, in some detail, what I take to be the current standard editions. 

See also Ecumenical Councils - a useful, if denominationally partisan, article from the Catholic Encyclopedia. 

There are also online etexts of council decrees from Norman Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, (London: Sheed and Ward; Washington. D.C: Georgetown University Press. 1990).

I have made these off-site links (at http://www.ewtn.com)   available, but note that there is no indication that copy permission has been obtained. EWTN is a very conservative Catholic web site, but it does have a lot of files [over 9000].

  1. Council of Nicaea I : 325 A.D., with Catholic Encyclopedia article 
  2. Council of Constantinople I : 381 A.D.  
  3. Council of Ephesus : 431 A.D.  
  4. Council of Chalcedon : 451 A.D.  
  5. Council of Constantinople II : 553 AD  
  6. Council of Constantinople III : 680-681 A.D.  
  7. Council of Nicaea II : 787 A.D. ,  - with Catholic Encylopedia article 
    Cf. Nicea II 753 (Iconcolast Synod)
  8. Council of Constantinople IV : 869-870 A.D. 
  9. Lateran Council I : 1123 A.D. 
  10. Lateran Council II : 1139 A.D. 
  11. Lateran Council III : 1179 A.D. 
  12. Lateran Council IV : 1215 A.D. 
  13. Council of Lyons 1 : 1245 A.D. 
  14. Council of Lyons 2 : 1274 A.D. 
  15. Council of Vienne : 1311-12 A.D. 
  16. Council of Constance 1414-18 A.D.  
  17. Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence : 1431-1435 A.D.  See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Council of Basel
  18. Lateran Council V : 1512-17 A.D.  See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Fifth Lateran Council
  19. Council of Trent : 1545-63 A.D. [at Hanover College - this is public domain]. Also a Zipped version [At EWTN]
  20. Vatican Council I : 1869 AD  
  21. Vatican Council 2: Index [Text version - at RCNET]
    Vatican Council 2: Index [HTML versions - at EWTN]



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FATHERS

The first six items are links to more extended collections and indexes. 

The following works by various fathers are in rough chronological order. Most are off site links to documents or indexes. 

ANTE-NICENE FATHERS

POST NICENE: NON-GREEK/NON LATIN FATHERS

POST NICENE: GREEK FATHERS

POST NICENE: LATIN FATHERS



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LATE ANTIQUITY 



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BYZANTIUM 


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ISLAM 

Religious Texts

Literary and Historiographical Texts



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MONASTICISM 



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HISTORIOGRAPHY



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MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY



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LITERARY TEXTS 

Latin

French

Italian

Spanish/Portuguese

Celtic