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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Secondary Sources
Editor: Paul Halsall
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Guide to Contents
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is mostly concerned with primary sources. This section links to secondary literature on the subjects covered by the source documents. The structure mirrors that of the Selected Sources collection.
You can browse through the entire
list, or jump directly to the part that interests you by selecting the underlined links. Because of copyright law almost all these links are to older scholarship and the coverage of the middle ages is somewhat patchy. There will always be more modern secondary sources that researchers and students should consult. Some of the older scholarship still has value though, and often modern scholarship refers to it as a starting point for new discussions.
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index of full text medieval sources.
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on hagiography.
Selected Secondary Readings In Medieval History
The End of the Classical World
Byzantium
Islam
The Formation of Latin Christendom
The Flowering of Latin Christendom
Medieval Life and Thought
The Late Middle Ages
Transformations
The End of the Classical World
PAGAN LATE ANTIQUITY
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CHRISTIAN LATE ANTIQUITY
- Testimonium
Flavianum [At UPenn] [Internet Archive version here]
On the texts about Jesus in Josephus.
- Eric J. Goldberg: The Fall of the Roman Empire Revisited: Sidonius Apollinaris and His Crisis of Identity [Was At Essays in History 37/Virginia, now Internet Archive]
- James O'Donnell: The Demise of Paganism Traditio 35, (1977), 45-88 [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- James O'Donnell: Augustine Page with many secondary sources [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- James O'Donnell: Augustine the African [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- James O'Donnell: Augustine [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
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Gerald W. Schlabach: Friendship as Adultery: Social Reality and Sexual Metaphor in Augustine's Doctrine of Original Sin Augustinian Studies 23 (December 1992): 125-147 [Was At St. Thomas, now Internet Archive]
- F.B.A. Asiedu: The Example of a Woman: Sexual Renunciation and Augustine's Conversion to Christianity in 386 University of Pennsylvania, February 1994 [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
- Fr. Edmund Hill, OP: St Augustine a male chauvinist? 1994 [At EWTN]
- Yves Congar: L'Église de saint Augustin à nos jours In French [Was At Cerf, now Internet Archive]
- James O'Donnell: Cassiodorus [Was At UPenn, now Internet Archive]
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Arther Ferrill: Attila the Hun and the Battle of Chalons [At History Eserver]
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Nonna Verna Harrison, The
Feminine Man in Late Antique Ascetic Piety Union Seminary Quarterly Review 48:3-4 [Was At Colombia, now Internet Archive]
- W. R. W. Stephens: Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times 2nd ed (1880) [Project Gutenberg]
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THE GERMAN IMPACT
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Byzantium
BYZANTIUM- GENERAL
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JUSTINIAN
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AFTER JUSTINIAN
ICONOCLASM
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BYZANTINE IMPERIAL CENTURIES (843-1204)
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LATE BYZANTIUM AND RELATIONS WITH THE WEST (1204-1453)
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John Meyendorff:
Theology in the Thirteenth Century: Methodological Contrasts from: The 17th lnternational Byzantine Congress: Μajor Papers, ed. A.D. Caratzas, New Rochelle, Ν.Y. 1986 [At Church of Greece] [Internet Archive version here]
- Jonathan Harris: Byzantines in Renaissance Italy [Was At ORB, now Internet Archive]
- Deno Geanakoplos:
Prologue: the two worlds of Christendom, from Byzantine East & Latin West: Two Worlds in Middle Ages and Renaissance, New York 1966 [At Church of Greece] [Internet Archive version here]
- Angeliki A. Laiou:
Byzantium and the West from: Angeliki E.Laiou and Henry Maguire (eds.), Byzantium, A World Civilization, Washington, D.C., 1992. At Church of Greece] [Internet Archive version here]
- Edwin Pears: The Destruction of the Greek Empire and the Story of the Capture of Constantinople by the Turks (1903) [Project Gutenberg]
- B. Granville Baker: The Walls of Constantinople (1910) [Project Gutenberg]
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BYZANTINE RELIGION
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THE BYZANTINE COMMONWEALTH
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Islam
MUHAMMAD AND FOUNDATIONS - TO 632 CE
- Irfan Shahîd: Rome and the Arabs: A Prolegomenon to the Study of Byzantium and the Arabs, 1984 full text PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fourth Century, full text 1984 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Fifth Century, full text 1989 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, Part 1 Political and Military History, full text 1995 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 1, Part 2, Ecclesiastical History, full text 1995 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 1, Toponymy, Monuments, Historical Geography, and Frontier Studies, 2002 full text PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Irfan Shahîd: Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century, Volume 2, Part 2, Economic, Social, and Cultural History, full text 2010 PDF [Dumbarton Oaks/Internet Archive]
- Philip K. Hitti: Muhammad, The Prophet of Allah [At Oneworld]
- Montgomery Watt: Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961) Last Chapter
- Maxime Rodinson: Muhammad (New York: Pantheon Books. 1980), pp. 38. ff, Chapter 3
- ISLAM - Summary [Was At Religious
Tolerance, now at Internet Archive]
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ISLAMIC EXPANSION AND EMPIRE - 750 CE
- Fred Donner: The Early Islamic Conquests, (Princeton: Princeton Univ Press, 1981), pp.251 ff - Chapter VI. "Conclusions: 1. Tribe and State in Arabia: Second Essay"
- Judith Herrin: The Formation of Christendom. "Byzantium Confronted by Islam", (Princeton: Princeton Univ, Press. 1987), 183-213
- Gaston Wiet: Baghdad: Metropolis of the Abbasid Caliphate, (Norman OK: Univ of Oklahoma Press, 19?? ) Chap. 5
- J. Schact: "Law and Justice", in Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Islam, vol. II, pt. VIII/chap. 4, pp. 539 ff.
- Seyyed Hossain Nasr: Science and Civilization in Islam, (New York : New American Library. 1968). "Introduction".
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LATER ISLAMIC HISTORY
- Arthur Goldschmidt: A Concise History of the Middle East. Chap. 8. "Islamic Civilization"
- Oleg Grabar: Ceremonial and Art at the Umayyad Court. PhD Dissertation, Princeton Univ 1955. Chap. I. The Umayyad Royal Idea and its Expression under Mu'awiyah I. pp 18 ff
- Oleg Grabar: The Formation of Islamic Art, (New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 19??), pp. 43- 71,.Chap. 3 "The Symbolic Appropriation of the Land" chapter 3
- S. M. Ghazanfar: The Islamic World and the Western Renaissance [At Cyberistan].
Useful enough, but written with a chip on his shoulder by an economist.
- Yacov Lev: State and Society in Fatimid Egypt (Leiden: E. J. Brill., 1991), CHAPTER FOUR: THE RULING CIRCLES
- Philip K. Hitti : The Assassins [At Drug Library]
- David J. Wasserstein: The Caliphate in the West, (Oxford: ClarendonPress, 1993), chap. 1. "The Caliphal Institution in al-Andalus until 422/1031"
- Kenneth Baxter: Christian Martyrs in Muslim Spain (Cambridge University Press, 1988) [At Libro] [Internet Archive version here]
- J.J. Saunders: A History of Medieval Islam, (London: Routledge, 19??), chap. 9. "IX The Turkish Irruption"
- Z. V. Togan: The Origins of the Kazaks and the ôzbeks Central Asian Survey Vol. 11, No. 3. 1992, [At Turkiye.net]
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The Formation of Latin Christendom
THE ROMAN CHURCH
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MONASTICISM
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THE CELTIC WORLD
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THE CAROLINGIAN ESSOR
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FEUDALISM?
- Marc Bloch: Feudal Society: Volume 1 and Feudal Society: Volume 2 [Academia.edu]
- Paul Vinogradoff: The Foundations of Society (Origins of Feudalism) Cambridge Medieval History, Vol.
2, (1913) pp. 630-654 [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive]
- Paul Vinogradoff: Feudalism Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. 3, (1924) pp. 458-84 [Was At McMaster, now Internet Archive]
- John Sloan: The Stirrup Controversy posted on
discussion list [email protected] on 5 October 1994 as part of the thread
"The Stirrup Controversy."
- Steven Lane: Review of Susan Reynolds, Fief and Vassals, (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1994) in BMMR 95:12.1].
- Two Reviews of Susan Reynolds: Fiefs and Vassels (1994), by Fred Cheyette, in Speculum and Paul R. Hyams in Journal of Interdisciplinary History
- Levi Roach: Feudalism [At Academia.edu]
- Jay Lathen Boehm: The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320 [Was At Essay in History 34/Virginia, now Internet Archive]
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The Flowering of Latin Christendom
MEDIEVAL-GENERAL
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WESTERN RECOVERY
THE COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
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EMPIRE AND PAPACY - INVESTITURE CONTROVERSY
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THE CRUSADES
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12TH CENTURY THOUGHT
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WESTERN EUROPEAN LITERATURE
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EMPIRE AND PAPACY - BARBAROSSA TO INNOCENT III
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ENGLAND
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THE RISE OF FRANCE
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SPAIN AND PORTUGAL
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THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE - FREDERICK II AND AFTER
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PARLIMENTARY ORIGINS IN ENGLAND
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Medieval Life and Thought
13TH CENTURY SCHOLARS AND SCHOLASTICISM
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CRITICISM OF SOCIETY - HERESY AND MENDICANCY
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LAW - THEORY AND PRACTICE
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RURAL LIFE
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MEDIEVAL JEWISH LIFE
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ANTI-SEMITISM
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CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY
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WOMEN'S ROLES
- Judith Evans Grubb: "Marriage More Shameful than Adultery:" Slave-Mistress Relationships, "Mixed marriages", and Late Roman Law Phoenix 47 (1993) 2. pp 125-154 [At Academia.edu]
- Lina Eckenstein: Women Under Monasticism Chapters on Saint-Lore and Convent Life Between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1500.
(New York: Russell and Russell, 1963), chaps. 4, 6, 7, 9 [Was At Yale, now Internet Archive]
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Abby Stoner: Sisters Between Gender and the Medieval Beguines [Was At SFSU, now Internet Archive]
- Eileen Power: Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 (1922) [Project Gutenberg]
- James L. Matterer: Jeanne La pucelle
and The Dying God [At CMU] [Internet Archive version here]
- T.L. Long: Julian of Norwich's "Christ as Mother" and Medieval Constructions of Gender 1995 [Now Internet Archive]
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Julian of Norwich: Her
'Showings' and Their Contexts [Website with various resources] [Internet Archive version here]
- Robert Palmer: Women and the Law. [Was At Houston, now Internet Archive]
Glanvill on Law as it applies to women in England, 1188.
- Georgiana Hill: Women In English Life from Mediæval to Modern Times (1894) [Project Gutenberg]
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CONSTRUCTIONS OF SEXUALITY AND GENDER
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For this subject the People With A History: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans* History Sourcebook
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Richard Burton: Terminal Essay
from his edition of the Arabian Nights.
Burton's compilation of data on variety of societies was meant to explain some of the
stories in The Nights.
- Peder Foss: Age, Gender and Status Divisions at Mealtime in the Roman House [At quem dixere chaos] [Internet Archive version here]
Not about homosexuality per se, but does address the way in which family structure
and gender effect daily life.
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Nonna Verna Harrison, The
Feminine Man in Late Antique Ascetic Piety Union Seminary Quarterly Review 48:3-4 [Was At Colombia, now Internet Archive]
- Bernadette Brooten: Early Church Responses to Lesbian Sex, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Volume III, No. 4, Fall, 1996. [Was at HLGC, now Internet Archive]
- John Boswell: Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century (1980) [At Internet Archive borrow facility]
- Bernadette Brooten: Love Between Women: Early Church Responses to Female Homoereoticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996) [At Internet Archive borrow facilty]
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Claudine Dauphin: Brothels,
Baths and Babes Prostitution in the Byzantine Holy Land Classics Ireland 3,
1996 [Was At UCD, now Internet Archive]
- Paul Halsall: Wedded to Christ: Nuptiality and Gender Reversal in the Lives of Byzantine Male Saints, Byzantine Studies Conference, Wisconsin, 26-28 September 1997, updated version [PDF] [At this Site]
- Ruth Mazo Karras: The Regulation of “Sodomy” in the Latin East and West, Speculum 2020 [At U Chicago Press] [Internet Archive back up here]
- Gunnora Hallakarva: The Vikings and Homosexuality [Permitted, local copy of the version at the Viking Answer Lady Page] [At this Site]
A splendid synoptic and detailed account of current research.
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John Addington Symonds (1840-1893): The Dantesqu and Platonic Ideals
of Love (1893)
- Jo Ann Hoeppner Moran (Cruz): The Roman De La Rose and the Thirteenth Century Prohibitions of Homosexuality (a paper prepared for
the Georgetown University Cultural Studies Conference, "Cultural Frictions",
October 27-28, 1995) [Was At Georgetown, now Internet Archive]
- Glenn Burger: Queer Performativity and the Natural in Chaucer's Physician's and Pardoner's Tales [Was At Georgetown, now Internet Archive]
- Glenn Burger, Queer Performativity and the Natural in Chaucer's Physician's and Pardoner's Tales [Was At Georgetown, now Internet Archive]
- Robert L. A. Clark (Kansas State U.) & Claire Sponsler (U. Iowa): "Queer Play: The Cultural Work of Crossdressing in Medieval Drama", Cultural Frictions Conference, Georgetown U., 1995 [Was At Georgetown, now Internet Archive]
- Martin Irvine, The Pen(is), Castration, and Identity: Abelard's Negotiations of Gender [Was At Georgetown, now Internet Archive]
- Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, et al: Medieval Masculinities: Heroism, Sanctity, and Gender[Was At Georgetown, now Internet Archive]
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MARRIAGE
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The Late Middle Ages
THE PAPACY OVERREACHES
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THE "CALAMITOUS" 14TH CENTURY
LATE MEDIEVAL GOVERNMENT
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CONCILIARISM
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MEDIEVAL PEOPLE - REFLECTED IN LITERATURE
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Transformations
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE
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REFORMATION and CATHOLIC REFORMATION
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EXPANSION OVERSEAS
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