Medieval England, 500-1500

Emilie Amt is an emeritus professor of history at Hood College.Katherine Allen Smith is Associate Professor of History at University of Puget Sound. She is the co-editor of Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe (2009) and the author of War and the Making of Medieval Monastic Culture (2011).

• List of Illustrations Acknowledgments IntroductionA Note on Medieval English Money Map of Medieval England and its NeighborsChapter One: The Anglo-Saxon World, ca 500–10661. Gildas on the Coming of the Anglo-Saxons (*)2. Letters on the Gregorian Mission (*)3. Laws of Æthelbert of Kent (*)4. Bede on the Conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria (*)5. An Anglo-Saxon Burial: The Ely "Princess" (*)6. Riddles from the Exeter Book (*)7. Slavery in Anglo-Saxon England (*)8. Treaty between King Alfred the Great and Guthrum (*)9. Alfred the Great’s Preface to the Pastoral Care (*)10. The Battle of Maldon (*)11. Labor and Daily Life from Ælfric of Eynsham’s Colloquy12. Anglo-Saxon Wills 13. The Cotton Anglo-Saxon World Map (*)14. The Wolf’s Sermon to the English (*)15. Laws of Cnut 16. Cnut’s Letter to the English People 17. Praise of Queen Emma 18. The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster Chapter Two: The Norman Era, 1066–1154 19. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on the Norman Conquest 20. The Text of the Bayeux Tapestry 21. Doing Penance for the Norman Victory (*)22. Castles in Norman England (*)23. Domesday Book 24. Orderic Vitalis’s Account of His Life 25. Anselm of Canterbury on His Feud with William Rufus (*)26. Gilbert Crispin’s Disputation of a Jew with a Christian (*)27. Church Reform: The Council of Westminster (*)28. Henry I’s Coronation Charter 29. Eadmer’s Account of Queen Edith-Matilda 30. The Founding of the Gilbertine Order (*)31. William of Malmesbury on the Civil War between Stephen and Matilda 32. The Battle of the Standard (*)Chapter Three: The Angevin Era, 1154–121633. Gerald of Wales’s Description of Henry II34. The Constitutions of Clarendon35. The Murder and Miracles of Thomas Becket 36. Glanville’s Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England37. Jocelin of Brakelond on the Misfortunes of Henry of Essex 38. The Political Career of Eleanor of Aquitaine (*)39. The Cult of King Arthur (*)40. Town Charters 41. William fitzStephen’s Description of London 42. Thomas of Monmouth’s Life of Saint William of Norwich 43. Reginald of Durham’s Life of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale44. The History of William Marshal45. John of Salisbury’s Policraticus 46. Richard of Devizes on the Third Crusade 47. Enforcing the Forest Law (*)48. Letters of Innocent III and King John 49. Roger of Wendover’s Account of the Rebellion against King John 50. Magna Carta Chapter Four: The Thirteenth Century, 1216–1299 51. Letters of Queen Isabella of Angoulême 52. Henry de Bracton’s Notebook: Cases from the Royal Courts 53. Persecution and Expulsion of English Jews (*)54. The Ancrene Wisse 55. Thomas of Eccleston on the Coming of the Friars Minor to England 56. The Baronial Cause: The Song of Lewes 57. The Miracles of Simon de Montfort (*)58. The Household Roll of Countess Eleanor of Leicester (*)59. Summonses to Parliament 60. London Coroners’ Rolls61. Plan of the Village of Wharram Percy (*)62. Manorial Life, from the Hundred Rolls 63. The Statutes of Merton College, Oxford 64. Roger Bacon’s Account of His Academic Career 65. The Conquest of Wales (*)66. Edward I’s Confirmation of Charters Chapter Five: An Age of Disasters, 1300–1399 67. Parish Life in the Diocese of Exeter (*)68. Correspondence of the Queen with London 69. The Manner of Holding Parliament 70. A Chronicle of the Great Famine 71. The Royal Response to the Famine 72. Manor Court Rolls 73. A Proof of Age Inquest (*)74. London Craft Guild Ordinances 75. Urban Environmental Problems and Regulations 76. Articles of Accusation against Edward II (*)77. Dispute between an Englishman and a Frenchman (*)78. Jean Froissart on the Battle of Crécy 79. Thomas Bradwardine’s Victory Sermon after Crécy (*)80. The Black Death (*)81. Post-Plague Wage and Price Regulations 82. Chronicle Accounts of the Peasants’ Revolt 83. A Peasants’ Revolt Trial84. Ordinances of the Guild of Saint Katharine at Norwich 85. Robert Manning of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne 86. The Growth of Lollardy (*)87. The Deposition of Richard IIChapter Six: The Fifteenth Century, 1399–1500 88. Chronicle of the Reign of Henry V 89. Statutes of the Order of the Garter (*)90. Financing the Agincourt Campaign (*)91. Order of the Pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play 92. Poems about Raising Children 93. London Wills (*)94. Apprenticeship Documents 95. Visitations of Monasteries 96. A London Chronicle on the Wars of the Roses 97. The Cely Letters 98. The Accession of Richard III (*)99. The Battle of Bosworth 100. The Rediscovery of Richard III101. Polydore Vergil’s Account of Henry VII102. An Italian Relation of England Sources Index of Topics (*) = New to this Edition