The Middle Ages (476-1500) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in world history (Salem Press)

Defining documents in world history

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Middle Ages--Sources.

Middle Ages.

Civilization, Medieval--Sources.

Civilization, Medieval.

Church history--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources.

Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services ; Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

This book offers in-depth analysis of a broad range of historical documents and historic events that shaped law, government, religion, and culture throughout the Middle Ages. Includes analysis of Byzantium and Western Europe; the Catholic Church and its vicissitudes; England and France; the Near East and beyond; philosophy, religion, and science; and more.

Contents:

Defining Documents in World History: The Middle Ages 9476-1500); Table of Contents; Publisher's Note; Contributors; Byzantium and Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages; The Catholic Church and Its Vicissitudes; England and France; The Near East and Beyond; Philosophy, Religion, and Science; Appendixes; Codex Justinianus: Children of the Unfree; Novella 146: On Jews; Excerpt from the Visigothic Code; The Farmer's Law, from Byzantium; The Laws of Alfred, Guthrum, and Edward the Elder; The Laws of King Alfred; Four Documents from the Investiture Controversy

A Truce of God, Decree of the Emperor Henry IVThe Crusaders in Mainz, May 27, 1096; Excerpt from "The Capture of Jerusalem"; Excerpt from Historia Constantinopolitana; Statute in Favor of the Princes; Report from China; Letter to Gregory XI; The Assize of Clarendon; Letter from Peter of Blois to Queen Eleanor of England; Excerpt from Dialogue Concerning the Exchequer; On the Rules of Love and Chivalry; Magna Carta; Three Summonses to the Parliament of 1295; Ordinances of the Merchant Gild of Southampton; The Battle of Poitiers, from The Chronicles of Froissart

Excerpts from The Book of the City of LadiesExcerpt from The Treasure of the City of Ladies; Letter to the King of England from Joan of Arc; Excerpt from the Trial of Joan of Arc; The Pact of Umar: Peace Accord to the Christians of Syria; Ibn Battuta Makes the Pilgrimage to Mecca and Travels to Baghdad; Ibn Battuta's Travels in Cairo, Damascus, and Jerusalem; Ibn Battuta's Travels to Mali; On Fate and Providence, from The Consolation of Philosophy; Excerpt from St. Anselm's Proslogium, or Discourse on the Existence of God; "In Behalf of the Fool": A Response to St. Anslem

Prologue to Sic et non"Of the Perils of His Abbey," from Abelard's Historia Calamitatum; Testament of St. Francis; On the Principles of Nature; Excerpt from Summa Theologica; "On Experimental Science"; Excerpt from The Love of Books; Chronological List; Web Resources; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 23, 2016).

ISBN:

9781619257740

1619257742

OCLC:

928920566