Portable Medieval Reader

James Bruce Ross (Author) James Bruce Ross was a medieval scholar who contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.Mary Martin McLaughlin (Author) Mary Martin McLaughlin (1919-2006) was a medieval scholar whose work focused on often overlooked subjects of the period, such as the roles of families. She attended the University of Nebraska and Columbia University, and also taught at both Wellesley and Vassar. Most notably, she contributed to The Portable Medieval Reader and The Portable Renaissance Reader.

• The Portable Medieval Reader - Edited by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin IntroductionChronological TableSuggestions for Further ReadingPart One: The Body SocialThe Body Social - John of SalisburyThe Orders of MenTHE CLERGY: THE PRAYERS AND THINKERSThe Monastic Ideal - Peter DamianiThe Cistercian Order - William of MalmesburyHow the Friars Came to Germany - Jordan of GianoA Preacher and His Miracles - SalimbeneMonastic Reform in the Fifteenth Century - John BuschArchibishop Baldwin of Canterbury - Giraldus CambrensisA Model Parish Priest: St. Gilbert of Sempringham - John CapgraveAn Attempt to Enforce Clerical Celibacy - Ordericus VitalisThe Habits of Priests in Normandy - Odo of RigaudStatutes for a College - Robert de SorbonneHow the Student Should Behave - John of GarlandTHE NOBILITY: THE FIGHTERSThe Function of Knighthood - John of SalisburyThe Chivalric Ideal - Díaz de GámezThe Murder of a Feudal Lord - Galbert of BrugesThe Battle of Poitiers - Geoffrey le BakerA Knight-Errant of the Fifteenth Century - Jörg von EhingenThe Rules of Courtly Love - Andreas CapellanusA Noble Household - Jean FroissartOffices in a Noble Household - John RussellPrivate Lives of the English Gentry - Stonor LettersTHE PEASANTS AND BURGHERS: THE WORKERSThe Feet of the Commonwealth - John of SalisburyThe Duties of Manorial Officers - SeneschaucieThe Peasant's Life - William LanglandThe Making of a Merchant: St. Godric of Finchale - Reginald of DurhamAdvice to a Norweigian Merchant - The King's MirrorThe Successful Surgeon - John ArderneThe Good Wife - The Goodman of ParisLife in London - Memorials of LondonFashions in Italy - SacchettiTHE JEWSPapal Protection of the Jews - Pope Gregory XThe Cremation of the Strasbourg Jewry - Jacob von KönigshofenConflict, Protest, and CatastropheA Revolt of the Commons in London - Roger of WendoverThe Peasants' Revolt in England - Anonimalle ChronicleMy Brother Man - Walther von der VogelweidePiers Plowman's Protest - William LanglandThe Waldensian Heretics - Bernard GuiThe Impact of the Black Death - Henry KnightonParis during the Hundred Years' War - Journal d'un bourgeoisPart Two: The Christian CommonwealthThe Spiritual AuthorityThe Superiority of the Spiritual Authority - Pope Bonfiace VIIIThe Election and Coronation of a Pope - Adam of UskThe Creation of Cardinals - Pope Pius IIThe Fourth Lateran Council - Roger of WendoverA French Provincial Synod - Odo of RigaudLetter to King Henry II - Thomas BecketThe Temporal AuthoritiesThe Nature of a True Prince - John of SalisburyThe Independence of the Temporal Authority - Frederick BarbarossaThe Election and Coronation of an Emperor - Otto of FreisingA German Poet's Attack on the Papacy - Walther von der VogelweideThe Seven Electors - Adam of UskA Picture of a Good Feudal King: Louis VI of France - SugerThe Coronation of Richard Lion Heart - Roger of WendoverThe Deposition and Death of Richard II - Adam of UskAn Imperialist View of the Lombard Communes - Otto of FreisingCity Politics in Siena - Pope Pius IIA Petty Italian Tyrant - AnonymousA Picture of a Tyrant - Pope Pius IIRenewal and ReformThe Recovery of the Holy Land: A Plan of Action and a Scheme for Reform - Pierre du BoisOn the Supremacy of General Councils in Church and Empire - Nicholas of CusaA Plea for the Reform of Germany - Die Reformation Kaiser SigmundsA Call for Common Action Against the Turks - Pope Pius IIPart Three: The House of FameBohemond the Crusader - Anna ComnenaON the Fame of Abelard - HeloiseHeloise and Abelard: The Later Years - Peter the VenerableArnold of Brescia, a Twelfth-Century Revolutionary - John of SalisburyArnold of Brescia - AnonymousHis Own Deeds - Giraldus CambrensisHenry II, King of England - Giraldus CambrensisThe Emperor Frederick II - SalimbeneA Saintly King - Jean de JoinvillePope Boniface VIII - Giovanni VillaniDante Alighieri - Giovanni VillaniInscription for a Portrait of Dante - Giovanni BoccaccioGiotto - Lorenzo GhibertiLetter to Posterity - Francesco PetrarcaCharles the Bold and the Fall of the House of Burgundy - Philippe de ComminesPart Four: The World PictureThe Frontiers of Europe: Conquest and Assimilation of PeoplesAnglo-Saxons and Normans - William of MalmesburyThe Character and Customs of the Irish - Giraldus CambrensisThe Conversion and Subjugation of the Slavs - HelmoldThe German Push to the East - Ordensritter und KirchenfürstenThe Near East: Pilgrimage and CrusadeThe Great German Pilgrimage - Lambert of HersfeldThe First Contact of Crusaders and Turks - Histoire anonyme de la première croisadeA Greek View of the Crusaders - Anna ComnenaAn Arab Opinion of the Crusaders - UsamahA Crusader's Criticism of the Greeks - Odo of DeuilWhy the Crusaders Failed - William of TyreThe Expedition of the Grand Company to Constantinople - Ramón MuntanerThe Far East: Missionaries and MerchantsThe Tartar Menace to Europe - Matthew ParisA Mission to the Great Khan - William of RubrudThe Labours of a Friar in Cathay - John of Monte CorvinoA Last Mission to Cathay - John of MarignolliAdvice to Merchants Bound for Cathay - Francesco PegolottiHenry the Navigator's Search for New Lands - Gomes de AzuraraPart Five: The Noble CastleThe MakersPOETS AND STORY-TELLERSThe Vision of Viands - Aniar MacConglinneHymn for Good Friday - Peter AbelardDavid's Lament for Jonathan - Peter AbelardLet's Away with Study - AnonymousWhen Diana Lighteth - AnonymousTo Bel Vezer on Her Dismissal of the Poet - Bernart de VentadornDawn Song - AnonymousThe Pretty Fruits of Love - AnonymousThis Song Wants Drink - AnonymousThe Love of Tristan and Iseult - Gottfried von StrassburgOf the Churl Who Won Paradise - AnonymousGather Ye Rosebuds - Romance of the RoseThe Canticle of the Sun - Saint Francis of AssisiOf the Gentle Heart - Guido GuinicelliMy Lady Looks So Gentle - Dante AlighieriBeauty in Women - Guido CavalcantiOf the Blessed Virgin Mary, and of the Sinner - Jacopone da TodiMerciless Beauty: A Triple Roundel - Geoffrey ChaucerRoundel - Christine de PisanMiracles of the Virgin - Johannes HeroltPAINTERS AND BUILDERSOf Pictures and Images - William DurandusHow to Represent the Arts and Sciences - Quellenbuch zur KunstgeschichteThe Identity of Individual Artists - Recueil de textes relatifs à l'histoire de l'architectureAbbots as Builders - Gesta abbatum sancti AlbaniA Painter on His Craft - Cennino CenniniNature as the Supreme Authority - Leonardo da VinciMUSICIANSCeltic Music and Music in General - Giraldus CambrensisTwo Musical Friars - SalimbeneAn Orchestra of the Fourteenth Century - Guillaume de MachautThe Mirror of HistoryA Philosophy of History - Otto of FreisingThe Problems and Motives of the Historian - William of TyreThe Seven Liberal ArtsOn Study and Teaching - Hugh of St. VictorThe Battle of the Arts - Henri d'AndeliRules of the University of Paris - Chartulary of the University of ParisFernando of Cordova, the Boy Wonder - LaunoyThe Problems of a Christian Humanist - John of SalisburyThe Ancients and the Moderns - Walter MapA Plea for the Study of Languages - Roger BaconStatute of the Council of Vienne on Languages - Chartulary of the University of ParisAn English Humanist - Richard de BuryIn Defence of Liberal Studies - Coluccio SalutatiIn Praise of Greek - Leonardo BruniThe Mirror of NatureQuestions on Nature - Adelard of BathExperimental Science - Roger BaconThe Case of a Woman Doctor in Paris - Chartulary of the University of ParisThe History of Surgery - Gui de ChauliacThe Mirror of WisdomThe Place of Logic in Philosophy - Peter AbelardThe End of Man - Saint Thomas AquinasOn Learned Ignorance - Nicholas of CusaThe Vision of GodThe Soul Complains to God - Jacopone da TodiA Crying Mystic - Margery KempeThe Vision of God - Nicholas of CusaAcknowledgments