Medieval England, 500-1500 : a reader

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CONTENTS ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INTRODUCTION A NOTE ON MEDIEVAL ENGLISH MONEY MAP OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND AND ITS NEIGHBORS CHAPTER ONE: THE ANGLO-SAXON WORLD, CA 500–1066 1. Gildas on the Coming of the Anglo-Saxons 2. Letters on the Gregorian Mission Pope Gregory I to King Æthelbert of Kent, 601 Pope Gregory I to Abbot Mellitus, 601 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 Manumission of Eadhlem by King Athelstan, 925 Manumission of Slaves for King Edgar (r. 942–75) Putrael Establishes His Free Status, Later Tenth Century A Miracle Concerning the Slave-Girl of Teoð  ic the Bell-Founder A Miracle Concerning a Slave Who Carried Red-Hot Metal in His Bare Hand 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 Colloquy 12. Anglo-Saxon Wills The Will of Ælfhelm, 975–1016 The Will of Ælfflæd, 1000–1002 The Will of Archbishop Ælfric, 1003–1004 13. The Cotton Anglo-Saxon World Map 14. The Wolf’s Sermon to the English 15. Laws of Cnut Of Heathenism Of Various Criminal Acts Of Currency and Measures Of Fines Due to the King Of Courts That Every Man Should Belong to a Tithing Of the Bearing of Witness Of the Killing of Clerics Of Men in Holy Orders Of Widows and Maids Of Adultery Of Him Who Fights in the King’s Household In Case Anyone Disarm Another Of the Heriot Of Widows and Marriage Of Stolen Property Of Him Who Flees from His Lord Of Him Who Falls before His Lord Of Hunting 16. Cnut’s Letter to the English People 17. Praise of Queen Emma Prologue Book II Book III 18. The Life of King E d ward Who Rests at Westminster Book 1 Book 2 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 The Siege of Exeter, 1136 23. Domesday Book Gloucestershire The King’s Land In Botloe Hundred Earl Hugh’s Land In Bisley Hundred In Longtree Hundred In Witley Hundred In Longtree Hundred Land of William Goizenboded In Chelthorn Hundred In Holmford Hundred 24. Orderic Vitalis’s Account of his Life 25. Anselm of Canterbury on His Feud with William Rufus Anselm to Pope Paschal II (late 1099 or early 1100) 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, 1154–1216 33. Gerald of Wales’s Description of Henry II 34. The Constitutions of Clarendon 35. The Murder and Miracles of Thomas Becket Edward Grim’s Life of Thomas Becket Miracles of Saint Thomas, by William of Canterbury Of a matron who on the seventh day spoke with the martyr in her sleep Of a townsman whom the martyr suddenly snatched from this world, because he had snatched a poor woman’s sheep Of a girl who had sunk in some water 36. Glanville’s Treatise on the L a ws and Customs of the Kingdom of England Book 2.  . . . Of Those Things Which Appertain to the Duel or Grand Assize Book 6. Of Dower 37. Jocelin of Brakelond on the Misfortunes of Henry of Essex 38. The Political Career of Eleanor of Aquitaine [Peter of Blois, writing on behalf of  ] Archbishop Rotrou of Rouen, to Queen Eleanor, 1173 Queen Eleanor to Pope Celestine III, 1193 39. The Cult of King Arthur [Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Account of Arthur’s Reign] [Gerald of Wales on the Rediscovery of Arthur’s Tomb at Glastonbury] 40. Town Charters Henry I to London [early twelfth century] Archbishop Thurstan of York to Beverly [before 1140] 41. William fitzStephen’s Description of London 42. Thomas of Monmouth’s Life of Saint William of Nor wich Book I 43. Reginald of Durham’s Life of Saint Godric, Hermi t of Finchale 44. The Histor y of William Marshal 45. John of Salisbury’s Policra ticus [The Function of Soldiers] [On Tyrants and Tyrannicide] Wherein the Tyrant Differs from the Prince, and of the Tyranny of Priests 46. Richard of Devizes on the Third Crusade 47. Enforcing the Forest Law Pleas of the Forest Heard at Northampton, February 1209 48. Letters of Innocent III and King John Answer of Innocent III Concerning the Interdict, 1208 John’s Surrender of the Kingdom to the Pope, 1213 49. Roger of Wendover’s Account of the Rebellion against King John Of the Demands Made by the Barons of England for Their Rights Of the Principal Persons Who Compelled the King to Grant the Laws and Liberties The Castle of Northampton Besieged by the Barons How the City of London Was Given Up to the Barons The Conference between the King and the Barons 50. Magna Carta CHAPTER FOUR: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, 1216–1299 51. Letters of Queen Isabella of Angoulême Isabella, Queen of England, to Her Son, Henry III [ca 1218–19] Isabella, Queen of England, to Pandulph, Bishop-Elect of Norwich [ca June 1219] Isabella, Queen of England, Countess of March and Angoulême, to Her Son, Henry III [1220] 52. Henry de Bracton’s Notebook: Cases from the Royal Courts 53. Persecution and Expulsion of English Jews Ordinances of Henry III, 1253 Threatened Expulsion of Salle of Canterbury, 1253 John of Trokelowe’s Chronicle Edward I’s Order, 1290 54. The Ancrene Wisse 2. Of Temptations 6. Of Penance 8. Of Domestic Matters 55. Thomas of Eccleston on the Coming of the Friars Minor to England Of the First Coming of the Friars Minor to England Of the First Separation of the Brethren 56. The Baronial Cause: The Song of L e wes 57. The Miracles of Simon de Montfort 58. The Household Roll of Countess Eleanor of Leicester [Daily Expenditures] [Miscellaneous Payments] By Gobion By Seman [Wages] 59. Summonses to Parliament Summons of a Bishop Summons of a Baron Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns 60. London Coroners’ Rolls Death of John Fuatard Death of Henry Green Death of John le Hancrete Death of Matilda, Wife of Henry le Coffeur Death of Simon of Winchester Death of William le Pannere Death of Henry of Llanfair Death of William Cole 61. Plan of the Village of Wharram Percy 62. Manorial Life, from the Hundred Rolls 63. The Statutes of Merton College, Oxford 1. Of the Grant of the Manors of Maldon and Farleigh 2. Of the Lawyers and Scholars Living in the House 7. Of the Deans’ Duties, etc. 8. Of the Scholars’ Table 40. Of the Education of the Boys, etc. 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 The Summoning of the Parliament Concerning Difficult Cases and Judgments Concerning the Business of the Parliament Concerning the Days and Hours of Parliament Concerning the Ranks of Peers Concerning the Opening of the Parliament Concerning the Preaching before the Parliament Concerning the Declaration in Parliament Concerning the King’s Speech after the Declaration Concerning the King’s Absence from Parliament Concerning the Places and Seats in the Parliament Concerning the King’s Aid Concerning the Breaking Up of the 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 Articles of the Spurriers, 1345 Ordinances of the Court-Hand Writers, or Scriveners, 1373 75. Urban Environmental Problems and Regulations Unlawful Nets Condemned to Be Burned, 1329 Ordinance That Brewers Shall Not Waste the Water of the Conduit in Cheap, 1345 Royal Order for Cleaning the Streets of the City, and the Banks of the Thames, 1357 Royal Order for the Removal of Butchers’ Bridge and the Prevention of the Slaughtering of Beasts at St. Nicholas Shambles, 1369 76. Articles of Accusation against Edward II 77. Dispute between an Englishman and a Frenchman The Frenchman Speaks The Englishman Speaks 78. Jean Froissart on the Battle of Crécy 79. Thomas Bradwardine’s Victory Sermon after Crécy 80. The Black Death Henry Knighton’s Chronicle Valuation of the Manor of Wood Eaton, Oxfordshire 81. Post-Plague Wage and Price Regulations The Ordinance of Laborers, 1349 London Wage and Price Regulations, 1350 82. Chronicle Accounts of the Peasants’ Revolt Froissart’s Account of a Sermon by John Ball Henry Knighton’s Chronicle 83. A Peasants’ Revolt Trial 84. Ordinances of the Guild of Saint Katharine at Nor wich 85. Robert Manning of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne 86. The Growth of Lollardy Lollards at Northampton, 1393 The Lollard Conclusions, 1394 87. The Deposition of Richard II CHAPTER SIX: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, 1399–1500 88. Chronicle of the Reign of Henry V Of King Harry V, the Son of King Harry IV, after the Conquest How King Harry Went the Second Time into Normandy, and of the Capture of Calais, and the Siege of Rouen 89. Statutes of the Order of the Garter 90. Financing the Agincourt Campaign Indenture between King Henry V and Sir Thomas Tunstall, 1415 Petition of Thomas Strickland, 1424 91. Order of the Pageants of the York Corpus Christi Play 92. Poems about Raising Children How the Goodwife Taught Her Daughter How the Wise Man Taught His Son 93. London Wills Will of Robert Avery, 1410 Will of Richard Young, 1413 94. Apprenticeship Documents Indenture of Apprenticeship, 1459 Repudiation by a Master of a Runaway Apprentice, 1416 95. Visitations of Monasteries Dorchester Abbey Catesby Priory 96. A London Chronicle on the Wars of the Roses Henry VI, 36th year Godfrey Boleyn, William Edward, Thomas Reyner Henry VI, 38th year William Hulyn, John Plumer, John Stokker Henry VI, 39th year Richard Lee, Richard Flemyng, John Lumbard Edward IV, 2nd year Thomas Cook, William Hampton, Barthu. Jamys Edward IV, 3rd year Matthew Philip, Robert Basset, Thomas Muschamp Edward IV, 9th year Richard Lee, Richard Gardiner, Robert Drope Henry VI, 1st year; Edward IV, 1st year [the dating reflects Henry’s brief return to the throne during Edward’s exile in 1470–71] John Stockton, John Croby, John Ward 97. The Cely Letters Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1480 Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1480 John Cely to George Cely at Calais, 1480 Robert Cely to George Cely at Calais, 1480 Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1480 William Maryon to George Cely at Calais, 1480 George Cely to Richard Cely the Elder at London, 1480 William Cely to George Cely at Bruges, 1481 Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1481 Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1481 John Dalton to George Cely in London, 1482 Joyce Parmenter to George Cely in London, 1482 Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1482 Richard Cely the Younger to George Cely at Calais, 1482 William Cely to George Cely at London, 1482 William Cely to George Cely at London, 1482 98. The Accession of Richard III 99. The Battle of Bosworth 100. The Rediscovery of Richard III 101. Polydore Vergil’s Account of Henry VII 102. An Italian Relation of England SOURCES INDEX OF TOPICS