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VERSE
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, "Aeterne rerum conditor"
Archpoet, "Aestuans intrinsecus"
Sequence (Anon.), ante a. 850
Venantius Fortunatus, "Pange, lingua"
Theodulf of Orléans, "Why I No Longer Write Poems"
Walter of Châtillon, "Missus sum in vineam"
John Gower, Vox Clamantis, (Excerpt on erroneous preaching)
HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY
Gregory of Tours
     History of the Franks, Praeface to Book I
     History of the Franks, Chapter Titles of Book I
     History of the Franks, Book VI, Chapter 46
     On the Glory of the Confessors, Praeface
Patrick, Confession
Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
     Physical Description and Pastimes
     Coronation of Louis and Death of Charlemagne
Liutprand of Cremona, Delegation to Constantinople
On the Bishops of Eichstadt, Anon. (Excerpt on Bishop Megingaud)
Salimbene, Chronicle
Agnes Blannbekin, Vita et Revelationes, (Excerpt)
DOCUMENTS
Selected Documents on Vassalage
Pope Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae
Gratian, Decretum
Magna Carta, 1225
Boniface VIII, "Clericis laicos"
Boniface VIII, "Unam Sanctam"
Francis of Assisi, Testament
SERMONS AND PREACHING
Guibert de Nogent, How to Make a Sermon (Excerpt)
Legenda Aurea, On Humility
Alan of Lille, On the Art of Preaching, Preface and Cap. I
Pierre de Remiremont, Exemplum
Fasciculus Morum, (On the Avarice of Preachers)
VULGATE & EXEGESIS

Genesis, Chapter 3
Psalm 1
Augustine, Enarrationes in Psalmos, Ps. 1

Book of Proverbs, selections
Rustic Vulgate: Jeremiah 1.6-15
The Parable of the Good Samaritan: Luke 10.25-37
Gregory I, Moralia in Iob
Physiologus, On the Pelican

HUMANISM
Dante, On Vernacular Eloquence (Excerpts)
Dante, Letter to Can Grande della Scala (Excerpt on Allegory)
Thomas à Kempis, On the Imitation of Christ, Cap. 1
Roger Bacon, Opus Maius I.1
Erasmus of Rotterdam, The Ciceronian

EXCERPTA VARIA

Boethius, from the Consolatio Philosophiae
Martin of Braga, De Correctione Rusticorum
Rule of Benedict
Itinerarium Egeriae
Isidore of Seville, "On Law," from the Etymologies
Pope Zacharias, Epistola
Abelard, Prologue to Sic & Non
Bernard of Clairvaux, Apology
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (Excerpts)
Translations of the Qur'an

 

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