Circa 1300. – 202 p. The Codex Runicus is a codex of 202 p. written in medieval runes around the year 1300 which includes the oldest preserved Nordic provincial law, Scanian Law (Skånske lov) pertaining to the Danish land Scania (Skåneland). Codex Runicus is one of the few runic texts found on parchment. The manuscript's initials are painted various colors and the rubrics are...
Translated and edited by Lisa Wolverton — The Catholic University of America Press, 2009. — The Chronicle of the Czechs by Cosmas of Prague (d. 1125) is a masterwork of medieval historical writing, deeply erudite, consciously researched, and narrated in high rhetorical style. Regarded as the foundational narrative of Czech history, it is the source of the oldest stories about...
Introduction by Richard W. Kaeuper; Translation by Elspeth Kennedy. — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. — 128 p. — (The Middle Ages Series). — ISBN: 0-8122-1909-0. Enter the real world of knights and their code of ethics and behavior. Read how an aspiring knight of the fourteenth century would conduct himself and learn what he would have needed to know when traveling,...
Westminster: W. Caxton, 1489. — 144 ff. This book on the proper mode of conduct for a knight was written in French in around 1410 by Christine de Pisan, Europe's first prolific and respected female author. It was translated into English and printed by William Caxton (1422?-91) in 1489 at the behest of Henry VII, who wished to make it available to English soldiers. The book...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. — 192 p. — ISBN: 0812214412 Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details of private life and social history that are embedded in the official records.
Clarendon Press, 2002. — 431 p. — (Oxford Medieval Texts). — ISBN: 9780198222415. The monk Rodulfus Glaber is best known for his Five Books of Histories, a major source for events in the first half of the eleventh century, and valuable above all for revealing the mental furniture of an eleventh-century monk - for his account of the millennium, of relics genuine and false, of...
Selected and Translated from the Arabic Sources by Francesco Gabrieli; Translated from the Italian by E.J.Costello. — Oxford; New York: Routledge (Taylor & Francis e-Library), 2009. — xxviii, 226 p. — (The Islamic World Series) — ISBN-13: 978-0-415-56332-1; 978-0-203-09250-7; ISBN-10: 0-415-56332-1; 0-203-09250-3. Translated from the Italian Storici Arabi delle Crociate —...
Sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC, publication date 2018. — 209 p. — ASIN B07DD7NC27. The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system. The vellum on which it is written has been carbon-dated to the early 15th century (1404–1438), and it may have been composed in Northern Italy during the Italian Renaissance. The manuscript is named...
Strassburg: Verlag von Karl J. Trubner, 1886. — 724 p. Vorbericht. Handsohriften. Ausgaben. Ubersetzungen. Quellen und Hilfsmittel. Erlauterungsschriften. Critischer Apparat. Druckfeler und Berichtigungen. Text. Index Nominum.
Translated by Laura Napran. — The Boydell Press, 2005. — 262 p. — ISBN: 1843831201. The importance of the late twelfth-century Chronicle of Hainaut (Chronicon Hanoniense) as an historical record cannot be overestimated. Gilbert of Mons was an eye-witness to important events affecting Count Baldwin V of Hainaut, and provides much significant information about persons and affairs...
Routledge, 2014. — 208 p. The Akhbār majmū‘a , or 'Collected Accounts', deal with the Muslim conquest of the Iberian peninsula in 711 and subsequent events in al-Andalus, down to and including the reign of ‘Abd al-Rahmān III (912-961), founder of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus . No Arabic text dealing with the early history of al-Andalus has aroused more controversy, and...
Routledge, 2019. — 334 p. The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was intended as a continuation of the earlier chronicle of Helmold of Bosau, and covers the years...
Routledge, 2019. — 334 p. The chronicle of Arnold, Abbot of the monastery of St John of Lübeck, is one of the most important sources for the history of Germany in the central Middle Ages, and is also probably the major source for German involvement in the Crusades. The work was intended as a continuation of the earlier chronicle of Helmold of Bosau, and covers the years...
Translation of De gestis Langobardorum : translated by William Dudley Foulke; edited, with introduction by Edward Peters. — University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. — xxi, 332 p. — (Middle Ages Series). — ISBN: 0812210794. History of the Lombards , by Paul the Deacon (c. 720-c. 799), is among the most important and oldest accounts of the Germanic nation. The book preserves many...
Translated and annotated by Janet L. Nelson. — Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991. — 248 p. — (Ninth-Century Histories, Volume I). ISBN10: 0719034264. ISBN13: 978-0719034268. This, the first book in a series which offers annotated translations of medieval texts for the use of history students, is based on a course on "Charles the Bald and Alfred". The series offers...
Translated and annotated by G.A. Loud. — Ashgate Publishing, 2010. — xvii+225 p. — (Crusade Texts in Translation) — ISBN 9780754665755 (hbk); 9781409406815 (ebk). This is the first English translation of the main contemporary accounts of the Crusade and death of the German Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa (ruled 1152-90). The main text here, the History of the Expedition of the...
Edited and Translated by Nirmal Dass. — Lanham, MD; Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011. — 154 p. — ISBN 978-1-4422-0497-3 (hardback); 978-1-4422-0498-0 (paperback); 978-1-4422-0499-7 (electronic). This new translation offers a faithful yet accessible English language rendering of the twelfth-century Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolomitanorum , the...
Translated by Nigel Bryant. — Boydell Press, 2011. — 311 p. — ISBN: 978-1-84383-694-0. The chronicles of Jean le Bel, written around 1352-61, are one of the most important sources for the beginning of the Hundred Years' War. They were only rediscovered and published at the beginning of the twentieth century, though Froissart begins his much more famous work by acknowledging his...
Manchester University Press, 2000. — 320 p. — (Manchester Medieval Sources Series). This book provides a selection from the abundant source material generated by the Normans and the peoples they conquered. As this study demonstrates, few other medieval peoples generated historical writing of such quantity and quality. Van Houts takes a wide European perspective on the Normans,...
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