The structure of this section of the Sourcebook - devoted to secondary articles
on the subjects covered by the source documents - 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. Since virtually all these sources are at off-site locations, some will, inevitably,
disappear. Notify me if this happens.
Special Note to Undergraduate Students: The articles and books collected here
may help you in writing papers. But you cannot depend on the Internet for material for
papers. The net is just one more option for you to explore, but you need to use
library resources as well.
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index of full text medieval sources.
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on hagiography.
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searches of the full texts of all the source texts at Fordham, at ORB, or selected
ancient, late antique, and medieval text databases.
Paul Vinogradoff: Feudalism, Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. 3, (1924) pp. 458-84 [At McMaster]
John Sloan: The Stirrup Controversy, posted on
discussion list mediev-l@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu on 5 October 1994 as part of the thread
"The Stirrup Controversy."
Walter Farrell: A Companion to the Summa,
(New York: Sheed & Ward, 1938--1942) (full text - 1,863 pages!) [At OP.Org]
An attempt to put into modern English for a lay audience the essential arguments and
insights of Aquinas' greatest work.
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 [At Yale]
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.
