Middle Ages: Primary Sources

Middle Ages: Primary Sources contains excerpts from speeches, journal entries, poems, letters and many other documents relating to the era that encompass both key documents and those sources that are equally as important, but less known. Each of the 19 entries contains an introduction that provides context, highlights central ideas and gives brief biographical information on related individuals. Sources for further information are also noted as well as full document citations. Middle Ages: Primary Sources features excerpts and full-text writings of the era from all over the world and includes:

Beowulf

Song of Roland
Domesday book of Norman England
Writings on alchemy, medicine and other sciences
Secret History
Chronographia
Koran
Thousand and One Nights
The Description of the World
Letter from Pope Gregory VII to King Henry IV
Letter from a Crusader to his wife
Magna Carta
And many others

Also included are 100 photographs and illustrations, sidebars, timeline, glossary, and a subject index.PIM31-MAY-180