INDEX
        A. On-Line Resources [click here]
        B. Narrative Sources for England (and Normandy), c. 1066-1270 [click here]
        C. Narrative Sources for France, c. 1000-1280 [click here]
        D. Narrative Sources for Germany [click here]
        E. Saints' Lives [click here]
        F. Letters [click here]
        G. Legal and Administrative Texts [click here]
        H. Literature [click here]
        I. Collections of Texts [click here]

B. Narrative Sources for Anglo-Norman and Angevin England (1066-1270)
 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
 Dudo of Saint-Quentin, History of the Normans
 Encomia Emmae Reginae (Poem of praise to Queen Emma, wife of Canute)
 Orderic Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History (Historia Ecclesiastica)
 William of Malmesbury, Gesta Regum Anglorum (deeds of the Kings of england)
 William of Malmesbury, Historia Novella ("recent" history, ie., 1130s-1140s)
 William of Poitiers, Gesta Guillelmi (deeds of William the Conqueror)
 William of Jumieges, Gesta Normannorum Ducum (deeds of the Norman Dukes)
 John of Worcester, Chronicle
 Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum (history of the English)
 Hugh the Chanter, History of the Church of York, 1066-1127
 Eadmer, Historia Novorum (history of recent events)
 Anonymous, Gesta Stephani (deeds of King Stephen)
 Guy of Amiens, Carmen de Hastingae Proelio (Song of the Battle of Hastings)
 The Waltham Chronicle
 Chronicle of Battle Abbey
 Roger of Hoveden, Chronicle
 Gerald of Wales, the Topography of Ireland
 Gerald of Wales, De expugnatio Hiberniae (The Conquest of Ireland)
 Gerald of Wales, De instructione principis (on the Instruction of princes)
 Richard of Devizes, Chronicle
 Jordan of Fantosmes, Chronicle [poem on civil war between Henry II and his sons]
 John of Salisbury, Historia Pontificalis (Pontifical History)
 Ralph de Diceto, [chronicle]
 William de Newburg (Neuberg), [chronicle]
 Roger of Wendover (or Roger Wendover), Flowers of History
 Matthew Paris, Flowers of History [chronicle]
 Jocelin of Brakelond, Chronicle of the Abbey of St Edmund's
 Ambroise, the Crusade of Richard Lion-Heart

C. Narrative Sources for France, c.1000-1275
 Ralph Glaber, History, in Ralph Glaber, Opera, ed. John France
 Suger, Deeds of Louis the Fat
 Jean de Joinville, Life of St Louis
 Galbert of Bruges, The Murder of Charles the Good
 Hugh of Poitiers, the Vezelay Chronicle
 Odo de Deuil, De profectione Ludovici VII in orientem [Louis VII's expedition to the  Holy Land in 1147]
 The Book of St Foy (miracle stories)
 Guibert of Nogent, Autobiography (edited under the titles Self and Society in Medieval France and A Monk's Confession)
 Deeds of the Counts of Anjou (at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook, and from Dr. Barton)
 Deeds of the Bishops of Le Mans (from Dr. Barton)
 Geoffrey de Villehardouin, Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade
 Robert de Clari, The Conquest of Constantinople (4th crusade)
 William of Tyre, A History of Deeds Done Beyond the Sea (crusades)

D. Narrative Sources for Germany
 Otto of Freising, the Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa
 Imperial Lives and Letters of the Eleventh Century
 Regino of Prum
 Adam von Bremen, History of the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen
 Philippe of Novara, The Wars of Frederick II Against the Ibelins in Syria

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E. Saints' Lives
 St Odo of Cluny, "The Life of St. Gerald of Aurillac," ed. Gerard Sitwell, in the book St Odo of Cluny  (New York,
                1958). [Gerald was a 10th century nobleman]
 Eadmer, Life of St Anselm
 Life of St Hugh of Lincoln
 Wulfstan of Winchester, Life of St Aethelwold
 Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster (Life of King Edward the Pious)
 Three Eleventh-Century Anglo-Latin Saints' Lives
 the Book of St Gilbert
 Walter Daniel, the Life of Ailred of Rievaulx
 Ralph Glaber, "The Life of Saint William," in the book Ralph Glaber, Opera, ed. John France
 
F. Letters
 Letters of John of Salisbury
 Letters of Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury
 Letters of Gilbert Foliot
 Letters of Ivo of Chartres
 Letters and Poems of Fulbert of Chartres
 Letters of St Anselm
 Letters of Pope Gregory VII
 Letters of Peter of Blois

G. Legal and Administrative Texts
 the Internet Medieval Sourcebook has a very good legal history page:   http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook-law.html
 
1. English sources
Richard fitzNigel, Dialogus de Scaccario (Course of the Exchequer)
Glanvill (Legal text from England in the 1180s)
Leges Henrici Primi (laws of Henry I [d. 1135])
the Laws of William the Conqueror, found on-line at the Online Medieval Sourcebook
English Lawsuits from William I to Richard I, 2 vols., Selden Society nos. 106-107, ed. R.C. Van Caenegem [at Duke]
Documents of the Baronial Movement of Reform and Rebellion, 1258-1267
The Court Baron [various texts, including Manorial Court records], edited by F.W. Maitland and published by the Selden
                    Society
Magna Carta
The Pipe Rolls, edited by the Pipe Roll Society.  In Latin, but with 30 minutes training from me, you could be reading and
                using the Pipe Rolls.  A short translated excerpt is found in Patrick Geary, Readings in Medieval History, 2nd
                edition. UNCC-Chapel-Hill has most of the 88-volumes; they list it as a periodical under the title "Publications
                of the Pipe Roll Society".
Select Canterbury Cases, 1200-1301, published by the Selden Society [law cases brought before the ecclesiastical court of
                Canterbury]
The Huntingdonshire Eyre of 1286, excerpts published by Patrick Geary, Readings in Medieval History
Bracton, On the Laws and Customs of England
Select Pleas of the Crown: Volume 1--A.D. 1200-1225, ed. F.W. Maitland  (London: Bernard Quartich, 1888).
                Several of these have been placed on-line at the Internet Medieval Sourcebook Legal Page
Select Pleas in Manorial and Other Seignorial Courts: Volume 1--Reigns of  Henry III and Edward I, ed. F.W.
                Maitland (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889). Several accounts have been placed on-line.

2. French sources
Philippe de Beaumanoir, Coutumes de Beauvasis (Customs of the Beauvais Region)
The Etablissements of St Louis [customs for the region of Orleans, Tours, and Angers]
Documents on the Peace of God Movement, as an appendix to Head and Landes, The Peace of God (1992?)
Enquetes of Saint Louis [legal records from France in the 13th century], excerpts have been edited and published by Patrick
                Geary in Readings in Medieval History.
Odo Rigaldus (Eudes, Archbishop of Rouen), The Register of Eudes of Rouen

3. Other Regions
The Ustages of Barcelona [customs for Barcelona, in Spain]

H. Literature
the Ruodlieb (german, 11th century)
the Song of Roland
Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances (Yvain, Erec and Enide, Lancelot, Perceval, Cliges)
Raoul of Cambrai
the Poem of the Cid
Lancelot of the Lake
Eneas, a 12th century French Romance
Guillaume d'Orange (William of Orange), Four French Epics
Many more ....
 
I. Collections of texts
David Herlihy, The History of Feudalism
English Historical Documents, vols. 1-2, series edited by David Douglas
Stephenson and Marcham, Sources of English Constitutional History
Patrick Geary, Readings in Medieval History

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