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MEDIEVAL ENGLAND READINGS IN MEDIEVAL CIVILIZATIONS AND CULTURES: VI series editor: Paul Edward Dutton MEDIEVAL ENGLAND 500–1500 A READER SECOND EDITION edited by EMILIE AMT and KATHERINE ALLEN SMITH Copyright © University of Toronto Press Incorporated 2018 Higher Education Division www.utorontopress.com All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher—or in the case of photocopying, a licence from Access Copyright (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency), One Yonge Street, Suite 1900, Toronto, Ontario m5e 1e5—is an infringement of the copyright law. LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION Medieval England 1000–1500  Medieval England, 500–1500 : a reader / edited by Emilie Amt and Katherine Allen Smith.— Second edition. (Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; vol. VI) Issued in print and electronic formats. ISBN 978-1-4426-3466-4 (hardcover).—ISBN 978-1-4426-3465-7 (softcover).— ISBN 978-1-4426-3467- 1 (EPUB).—ISBN 978-1-4426-3468-8 (PDF)  1. Great Britain—History—To 1500—Sources. 2. England—Civilization— To 1500—Sources. I. Amt, Emilie, 1960-, editor II. Smith, Katherine Allen, editor III. Title. IV. Series: Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures ; 6 DA170.M42 2017   942.03   C2017-903575-4                C2017-903576-2 We welcome comments and suggestions regarding any aspect of our publications—please feel free to contact us at [email protected] or visit our Internet site at www.utorontopress.com. 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Printed in United States of America For our students CONTENTS LIST OF 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 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 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 13 The Cotton Anglo-Saxon World Map 14 The Wolf’s Sermon to the English 15 Laws of Cnut 16 Cnut’s Letter to the English People 17 Praise of Queen Emma 18 The Life of King Edward Who Rests at Westminster 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 23 Domesday Book 24 Orderic Vitalis’s Account of His Life 25 Anselm of Canterbury on His Feud with William Rufus 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 36 Glanville’s Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of England 37 Jocelin of Brakelond on the Misfortunes of Henry of Essex 38 The Political Career of Eleanor of Aquitaine 39 The Cult of King Arthur 40 Town Charters 41 William fitzStephen’s Description of London 42 Thomas of Monmouth’s Life of Saint William of Norwich 43 Reginald of Durham’s Life of Saint Godric, Hermit of Finchale 44 The History of William Marshal 45 John of Salisbury’s Policraticus 46 Richard of Devizes on the Third Crusade 47 Enforcing the Forest Law 48 Letters of Innocent III and King John 49 Roger of Wendover’s Account of the Rebellion against King John 50 Magna Carta CHAPTER FOUR: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY, 1216–1299 51 Letters of Queen Isabella of Angoulême 52 Henry de Bracton’s Notebook: Cases from the Royal Courts 53 Persecution and Expulsion of English Jews 54 The Ancrene Wisse 55 Thomas of Eccleston on the Coming of the Friars Minor to England 56 The Baronial Cause: The Song of Lewes 57 The Miracles of Simon de Montfort 58 The Household Roll of Countess Eleanor of Leicester 59 Summonses to Parliament 60 London Coroners’ Rolls 61 Plan of the Village of Wharram Percy 62 Manorial Life, from the Hundred Rolls 63 The Statutes of Merton College, Oxford 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 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 75 Urban Environmental Problems and Regulations 76 Articles of Accusation against Edward II 77 Dispute between an Englishman and a Frenchman 78 Jean Froissart on the Battle of Crécy 79 Thomas Bradwardine’s Victory Sermon after Crécy 80 The Black Death 81 Post-Plague Wage and Price Regulations 82 Chronicle Accounts of the Peasants’ Revolt 83 A Peasants’ Revolt Trial 84 Ordinances of the Guild of Saint Katharine at Norwich 85 Robert Manning of Brunne’s Handlyng Synne 86 The Growth of Lollardy 87 The Deposition of Richard II CHAPTER SIX: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY, 1399–1500 88 Chronicle of the Reign of Henry V 89 Statutes of the Order of the Garter

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The new edition ofMedieval England, 500-1500, edited by Emilie Amt and Katherine Allen Smith, spans several centuries in 102 documents that present the social and political history of England. The documents include constitutional highlights and records such as the Magna Carta and Froissart'sChronicl
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