The author and acclaimed historian of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history, maintaining that applying historical criticism to documents, and balancing one document against another was a process of ‘the highest educational value’. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access to the more important documents of political history for the period between the Norman Conquest and the Accession of the House of Tudor. All the documents are translated into English from French or Latin and important documents, such as the Magna Carta are given in their entirety. The plan and arrangement of the documents is based on the belief that the political history of the Middle Ages is best understood in the light of social, economic and cultural evolution.
The author of this book, originally published in 1926, was a strong advocate for the use of original source documents in the study of history. He compiled this volume with the aim of giving easy access to important documents of political history for the period between the Norman Conquest and the Accession of the House of Tudor.
1.The Norman Conquest i) Domesday Book Motives for its Formation;
Extracts; Statistics ii). William of Malmesburys account of the Norman
Conquest iii). An Estimate of William the Conqueror from the Anglo-Saxon
Chronicle
2. The constitutional Struggle Between the Brons and the Monarchy
3. The Catholic Church
4. Trade Guilds and Universities
5. The Age of the
Crusades i) The First Crusade: Extract from William of Malmesburys Chronicle
of the Kings of England ii) Extracts from the Itinerarium Kambriae of
Giraldus Cambrensis iii) Extracts from Joinvilles Chronicle of the Crusade
of St. Louis iv) Extracts from the Voyages and Travels of Sir John
Maundeville v) Extracts from the Works of Roger Bacon
6. The Hundred Years
War i) The Military Exploits: Froissarts Account of the Battle of Creçy ii)
The War and the Church
7. The Black Death i) The Statute of Labourers, 1349
ii) The Second Statute of Labourers, 1351 iii) Population of England as
Recorded in the Poll-Tax Accounts of 1377 and 1381 iv) Extracts from the
Prologue of Chaucers Canterbury Tales v) The Vision of Piers Plowman:
Prologue and Parts of Passus I
8. The Decline of Medieval Civilization i) A
Selection from the Paston Letters ii) Extracts from the Stonor Papers
9. The
End of the Middle Ages i) The Libel of English Policy ii) Extracts from
Mores History of King Richard III
R. Trevor Davies was Professor of History at the University of Oxford and Vice-Principal of Culham College.
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