Wiesner, et al., Discovering the Western Past

Chapter V: The Growth of Feudal Monarchy

  1. Ordericus Vitalis, Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy
  2. Richmond Castle, begun in 1089
  3. View and Ground Plan of Harlech Castle, built by Edward I between 1283 and 1290
  4. Major Royal Castles built during the reign of William the Conqueror, 1066-1087
  5. From The Anglo-Saxon Cronicle
  6. Assize of Clarendon
  7. Constitutions of Clarendon
  8. Coronation of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, 1152
  9. Coronation of Richard the Lionhearted, 1189
  10. Portrait of Emperor Otto III
  11. Portion of the Bayeux Tapestry showing King Harold seathed on the Throne of England, with Halley's Comet above
  12. Tomb Sculpture of Duke Henry of Brunswick and his wife, Matilda

Chapter VI: Life at a Medieval University

  1. Royal Privileges Granted to the University of Paris by the King of France, 1200
  2. Statutes for the University of Paris issued by Robert Courçon, 1215
  3. Statutes for the University of Paris issued by Pope Gregory XI, 1231
  4. Robert de Sorbon's Regulations for his College, before 1274
  5. Introduction to Peter Abelard's Sic et Non, ca. 1122
  6. St. Anselm's Proof of the Existence of God, from his Monologium, ca. 1070
  7. Odofredus Announces his Law Lectures at Bologna, ca. 1255
  8. Introduction to Digest of Emperor Justinian, 6th century
  9. Extracts from the letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 1140
  10. Anonymous account of a student riot at Oxford, 13th century
  11. Jacques de Virty's description of student life at Paris, ca. 1225
  12. Two letters, 13th century
  13. Three anonymous student poems, 12th century

Chapter VII: The Family in Medieval English Villages

  1. Court Roll, Village of Gnossal, England, 1492 [mss, untranslitered and untranslated]
  2. Court Roll of Ramsey, 1460
  3. Court Roll of South Elmham, 1408
  4. Court Roll of Wymondham, 1421
  5. Court Roll of Winterborne, 1494
  6. Court Roll of Bromsgrove, 1496
  7. Bylaws of Wistow, 1410
  8. Bylaws of Hitchin, 1471
  9. Will of Jon Jalander, Cranbrook, 1476
  10. Will of Robert Lurker, Cranbrook, 1477
  11. Will of Thoms Herenden, Cranbrook, 1483
  12. Average number of offspring over the age of twelve in Halesowen families, by economic status, 1350-1400

Chapter VIII: Capitalism and Conflict in the Medieval Cloth Trade

  1. Laws regarding foreign merchants under King Edward the Confessor of England, after 1115
  2. Law regarding cloth cutting under the Count of Holland, 1200
  3. Proclamation regarding taxes by the Countess of Flanders, 1224
  4. City Ordinances regarding weavers in Winchester, England, ca. 1209
  5. City ordinances regarding guilds in Stendal, Germany, 1231 and 1233
  6. Shearers' charter from Arras, Flanders, 1236
  7. Judgment against a draper in Flanders, mid-14th century
  8. Dispute between master fullers and their apprentices in Flanders, 1345
  9. Decision by the Nuremberg City Council, 1577
  10. Widow's supplication to the Frankfurt City Council, late 16th century
  11. Widow's supplication to the Frankfurt City Council, late 16th century
  12. Two apprenticeship contracts, 13th century
  13. Insurance contracts from Pisa, 1384
  14. Trends in cloth trade in Florence and Ypres
  15. English exports of raw wool and cloth, based on customs records, ca. 1350-1550

Chapter IX: Peasant Violence: Rebellion and Riot in Europe, 1300-1789

  1. The range of landholding (in measures [1.09 acres]) of peasant victims in the Battle of Cassel, August 23, 1328 by districts of southwest Flanders
  2. The English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 led by Wat Tyler, from the Anonimalle Chronicle
  3. Catalan peasants justify their opposition to serfdom, 1460
  4. A woodblock engraving of the German Peasants' Revolt of 1525 showing a Bundschuh banner
  5. The Twelve Articles of the German Peasants' Revolt of 1525
  6. Manifesto of the Peasants of the Angoumois, 1636
  7. Ludwig Fabritius' account of the Stepan Razin Revolt, 1670
  8. Interrogation of Louis Marais, May 6, 1775
  9. Note on what occurred before and during the devastation of the Château of Cuireau during the Great Fear of July-August 1789

Chapter X: Lay Piety and Heresy in the Late Middle Ages

  1. A sermon story about the Virgin Mary, 13th century
  2. A sermon story about the relics, 13th century
  3. Extracts from the Life of St. Nicholas, The Golden Legend, ca. 1270
  4. Two visions of Bridget of Sweden, 1370s
  5. From the autobiography of Margery Kempe, ca. 1430
  6. Testimony from the Inquisition led by Jacques Fournier, Bishop of Pamiers, 1318-1325
  7. A Norwich heresy trial, 1428-1431
  8. Madonna, Germany, ca. 1430
  9. Crucifix, Germany, 14th century

Chapter XI: The Renaissance Man and Woman

  1. Albrecht Dürer, Self-Portrait in a Fur Coat, 1500
  2. Workshop of Botticelli (ca. 1444-1510), so-called Simonetta
  3. Andrea del Verrocchio (ca. 1435-1488), sculpture of General Bartolommeo Colleoni
  4. Peter Paul Vergerius, Letter to Ubertinus of Padua, 1392
  5. Leonardo Bruni, Letter to Lady Baptista Malatesta, ca. 1405
  6. From Baldassare Castiglione, The Courtier, 1508-1516
  7. From Baldassare Castiglione, The Courtier, 1508-1516
  8. From Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, 1513
  9. From Leon Battista Alberti, Autobiography, after 1460(?)
  10. From Polydore Vergil, Anglia Historia, ca. 1540

Chapter XII: Contacts with Non-Europeans Before Columbus

  1. Prologue to the Journal and Letter from Christopher Columbus (1493)
  2. The Journal of Rabban Sauma [13th century]
  3. Letter of John of Monte Corvino [1305]
  4. From The Travels of Marco Polo
  5. From The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  6. From Pius II, Commentaries, 1459
  7. From Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of Guinea, 1453

Chapter XIII: The Spread of the Reformation

  1. Sermon preached by Martin Luter in Erfurt, 1521
  2. Luther, Lord, Keep Us Steadfast in Thy Word, hymn, 1541-1542
  3. Luther, A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, hymn, 1527-1528
  4. Paul Speratus, Salvation unto Us Has Come, hymn, 1524
  5. Matthias Gerung, broadsheet, Lauingen, 1546
  6. Matthias Gerung, broadsheet, Lauingen, 1546
  7. Lucas Cranach, pamphlet, Wittenberg, 1521
  8. Unknown artist, pamphlet, Augsburg, 1522
  9. Lucas Cranach, pamphlet, Wittenberg, 1545
  10. Anonymous German pamphlet, 1523

Chapter XIV: Staging Absolutism

  1. From Jean Bodin, The Six B ooks of the Republic, Book I, 1576
  2. From Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Politics Drawn from the Very Words of the Holy Scriptures, 1678
  3. The Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV
  4. Charles Le Brun, Louis XIV Taking Up Personal Government, ca. 1680, from the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
  5. Hyacinthe-François-Honoré-Pierre-André Rigaud, Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1701
  6. Mask of Apollo, God of Light, 17th century
  7. Rousselet, Louis XIV as "Roman Emperor" in an engraving from the Carousel of 1662
  8. Garden Façade of Versailles
  9. Aerial view of Versailles
  10. The Royal Chapel at Versailles
  11. Reconstruction of the King's Chamber at Versailles, after 1701
  12. Antechamber of the Bull's Eye Window at Versailles
  13. Pierre Denis Martin, Château of Marly, 1724