Introduction:

A primary source is a work written at a time that is contemporary or nearly contemporary with the subject or period under study. Primary sources provide the raw data and information for the historian. A secondary source is a work that contains the explanation of, and judgements on, this primary material. A historical work is considered scholarly and reliable according to the extent to which it is based on "primary" sources, (i.e. the basic, raw, imperfect evidence). The book the historian writes is a "secondary" source.

This bibliography lists English translations of primary sources, available in the University of Calgary Library. A small number of titles are in Latin, but they have informative notes and some explanation of the text. The arrangement is by author or title within each subject grouping.

To be used in conjunction with "Medieval History, 400-1500 AD: Primary Sources in English in the University of Calgary Library"

CARTULARIES
COLLECTIONS
ORDERS

• Benedictines
  
  • Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
  • Benedictines
• Cistercians
  • Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint
  • Cistercians
  • William of Saint Thierry
• Dominicans
• Franciscians
  • Frances of Assisi
  • Clare of Assisi
  • Franciscans
• Military Orders

• Patrick, Saint
• Other

• Ancrene Riwle
• Collections
• Individuals

CARTULARIES

Unless otherwise noted, the text of the cartularies are in Latin. They are included here because each volume begins with an extensive introduction, in English. The introduction and notes contain information of value when studying a particular monastery, or monasticism in a particular country.

DA25 .M1 A4 NO.17
Blyth, Priory. The Cartulary of Blyth Priory / edited by R.T. Timson. London: H.M.S.O, 1973. (Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts; no.17)

• Lengthy introduction and history of the Priory is in English; text in Latin

• Text in Latin

• Introduction and notes are in English; text in Latin

• The Cartulary is in Latin but the lengthy introduction (46 p) and notes are in English.

• "Flavigny, founded in the early 8th century, was one of the most important Burgundian monasteries of the early Middle Ages" (Pref.)
• The Introduction is in English; text in Latin

DA25 .M1 A4
Missenden Abbey. The Cartulary of Missenden Abbey, part III / edited, with an introduction by J.G. Jenkins. (London: H.M.S.O., 1962. (Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts; no. 1).

• Text in Latin

• The Introduction (32 p) is in English, as are the notes. The Cartulary and charters are in Latin

• Text in Latin; introduction and notes in English

• Text is in Latin; notes and introduction in English

Shaftesbury Abbey. Charters of Shaftesbury Abbey / edited by S.E. Kelly. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, c1996. (Anglo-Saxon charters; 5).

• Text in Latin; introduction and notes in English

• This volume is an introduction to life in Sibton Abbey, the only Cistercian house in Suffolk. The volume provides good background information

• While the cartulary is in Latin, the lengthy introduction and the notes are in English

COLLECTIONS

BR141 .B4 1963
Bettenson, H.S. Documents of the Christian church. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1963.

DC70 .C36 1993
Carolingean civilization: a reader / edited by Paul Edward Dutton. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 1993.

CB245 .U64 1986
The Church in the Roman Empire / edited by Karl F. Morrison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

BR742 .A2 C68 1964
Councils and synods with other documents relating to the English Church. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964-1981. 2 v. in 4.

• Text in Latin; notes in English

DA150 .E35 1888
Earle, John. A Hand-book to the land-charters: and other Saxonic documents. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888.

BR170 .E27 1982
The Early church and the state / translated by Michael Di Maio and Agnes Cunningham; edited by Agnes Cunningham. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982. (Sources of early Christian thought; 4).

DA26 .E55 1996
English historical documents. 2nd ed. London; New York: Routledge, 1996. 10 v.

BR60 .A62 F3
Fathers of the Church. New York: Cima Pub. Co., 1947-

BR741 .H32 1964
Haddan, Arthur West. Councils and ecclesiastical documents relating to Great Britain and Ireland / edited, after Spelman and Wilkins, by Arthur West Haddan, B.D., and William Stubs. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1964 (c1878). 3 v.

• Text in Latin; notes in English

• Includes a number of documents relevant to western monasticism including The Rule of St. Benedict; Foundation Document of Cluny; Rule of St. Francis

PN667 .J76
Jones, Charles Williams. Medieval literature in translation. New York: Longman, Green, 1950.

DC64.7 .L38 1996
Late Merovingian France: history and hagiography, 640-720 / [translated and edited] by Paul Fouracre and Richard A. Gerberding. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996.

PR1120 .M3735 1996
Medieval English political writings / edited by James M. Dean. Kalamazoo, Mich. Published for TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages) in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 1996.

• Selected poems and documents which help illuminate political issues in 14th and 15th century England. Contains poems of political prophecy; anticlerical poems and documents; literature of Richard II's reign and the Peasant's Revolt; poems against sinning and the abuse of money; and Plowman writings. Each section is preceded by a useful introduction

BR128 .R7 P34 1992
Paganism and Christianity, 100-425 C.E.: a sourcebook / edited by Ramsay MacMullen and Eugene N. Lane. Minneapolis: Forstress, 1992.

PN667 .R82 1977
The Portable medieval reader / edited, and with an introduction, by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin, 1977.

• Excellent collection of writings, translated into English.

• Includes the Cluniac charters; Rule of St. Benedict; Rule of St. Francis; Testament of St. Clare

BX4656 .S25 1992
Sainted women of the Dark Ages / edited and translated by Jo Ann McNamara and John E. Halborg with E. Gordon Whatley. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1992.

DC70 .A2 S33 1970
Scholz, Bernhard Walter. Carolingian chronicles: Royal Frankish annals and Nithard's Histories. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1970.

BR60 .S4 1886
A Select library of the Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church / edited by Philip Schaff. New York: Christian Literature, 1886-1890. 14 v.

HQ1143 .W65 1993
Women's lives in medieval Europe: a sourcebook / edited by Emilie Amt. New York: Routledge, 1993.

• Primary source documents translated into English for all aspects of medieval life, including religiuos life

ORDERS

Benedictines

• Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino

• Benedictines
• Military Orders

Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino

BX3004 .A2 1994
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. The Rule of Benedict: a guide to Christian living: the full text of the rule in Latin and English / with commentary by George Holzherr; translated by the Monks of Glenstal Abbey. Dublin, Ireland: Fourt Courts Press, c1994.

• Includes chapter-by-chapter commentary on the Rule of St. Benedict; the basic text in Western monasticism

BX3004 .E5 1952
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. The Rule of Saint Benedict in Latin and English / Edited and translated by Justin McCann. Westminster, Md.: Newman Press, 1952.

PR1119 .A2
Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino. Three Middle-English versions of the Rule of St. Benet and two contemporary rituals for the ordination of nuns / edited with an introduction, notes, and glossaries / by Dr. Ernst A. Kock. London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., Limited, 1902.

Benedictines

• Text in Latin, notes and introduction in English

• Written after the year 500 AD by an unknown abbot. It is generally accepted by scholars that this text was St. Benedict's chief literary source

• Basic text for the study of monasticism in the late Anglo-Saxon period. This document marks the final settlement of the Benedictine revival in England in the 10th century

Cistercians

• Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153

• Cistercians
• William of Saint Thierry

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153

BX4700 .B5 A31 1953
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. The Letters of St. Bernard of Clairvaux / newly translated by Bruno Scott James. Chicago, Regnery, 1953.

BV4700 .M23 B451 1978
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. The Life and death of Saint Malachy the Irishman / translated and annotated by Robert T. Meyer. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cicstercian Publications, 1978. (Cistercian Fathers series; 10)

BX4700 .B5 A23 1889
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Life and works of Saint Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux [microform] / edited by John Mabillon; translated and edited with additional notes by Samuel J. Eales. Chicago: American Theological Library Association, 1985 (c1889). 8 microfiche.

PR1120 U5 R.1057:1-19
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. A Rule of good life [microform] / written by the melllifluous doctor S. Bernard (monke and abbot of the Holie Order of S. Benet) especiallie for virgins, and other religious women; and may profitably be read likewise by all others, that aspire to Christian perfection; faithfully translated into English by the R. Father Antonie Batt. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms. (English books, 1475-1640; reel 1057)

BV4817 .B451 1937
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Saint Bernard on the love of God. Translated from the Latin with supplementary notes by Terence L. Connolly. London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1937.

BS1485 .B45 1952
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Saint Bernard on the Song of songs: Sermones in Cantica canticorum / translated and edited by a religious of C.S.M.V.; with and introduction and notes. London: Mowbray, 1952.

BX1756 .B42 S4 1981
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Sermons on conversion / translated with an introduction by Marie-Bernard Said. Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1981

BX4700 .B5 A31 1904
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Some letters of Saint Bernard, abbot of Clairvaux / from the translation by ... Dr. Eales; selected, with a preface, by Francis Aidan Gasquet. London: J. Hodges, 1904.

BV4647 .H8 B45
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. The Steps of humility / translated, with introduction and notes, as a study of his epistemology by George Bosworth Burch. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950 (c1940).

BT760 .B52 E5 1977
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Treatises III: On grace and free choice; In praise of the new knighthood / translated by Daniel O'Donovan and Conrad Greenia. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1977.

BX890 .B451 1970
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. The Works of Bernard of Clairvaux. Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1970-.

• English translation

Cistercians

DA20 .R573
Citeaux, France (Cistercian Abbey). Letters from the English abbots to the Chapter at Citeaux, 1442-1521 / edited by C.H. Talbot. London: Royal Historical Society, 1967. (Camden fourth series; v.4)

• Text in Latin, introduction and notes in English

BX1756 .G86 L51 1970
Guerricus, Abbot of Igny. Liturgical sermons / Introduction and translation by monks of Mout Saint Bernard Abbey. Spencer, Mass.: Cistercian Publications, 1970-.

• Library has v.1

BX3402.2 .L44 1977
Lekai, Louis Julius. The Cistercians: ideals and reality. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, c1977.

• Includes some original sources

William of Saint Thierry

BS2665 .G831 1980
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?. Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans / Translated by John Baptist Hasbrouck; edited with an introduction by John D. Anderson. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1980. (Cistercian Fathers series; no. 27).

BX2349 .G8551 1930
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?. The Golden epistle of Abbot William of St. Thierry to the Carthusians of Mont Dieu / now first translated into English by Walter Shewring; and edited by Dom Justin McCann. London: Sheed and Ward, 1930.

BT140 .G831 1981
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?. The Nature and dignity of love / translated by Thomas X. Davis; introduction by David N. Bell. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, c1981. (Cistercian Fathers series; no. 30).

BX890 .G85 1977
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?. On contemplating God, Prayer, Meditations / translated by Sister Penelope. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1977. (Cistercian Fathers series; no. 3).

BX890 .G85 1977
William, of Saint-Thierry, Abbot of Saint-Thierry, ca. 1085-1148?. Works of William of St. Thierry. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1977- .

• Library has v.1: On Contemplating God; Prayer; Meditations. Translated into English.

Dominicans

• Excellent collection of original source material translated into English

Franciscans

• Francis of Assisi
• Clare of Assisi
• Franciscans

Francis of Assisi

BX4700 .F63 E474 1973
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226. The Little flowers of St. Francis: The mirror of perfection. St. Bonaventure's Life of St. Francis. Introd. by Hugh McKay. With a postscript... by Eric Doyle. London, Dent, 1973.

BX890 .F731 1976
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226. Writings. Chicago, Franciscan Herald Press, 1976.

BX890 .F721 1905
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 1182-1226. The Writings of Saint Francis of Assissi / newly translated into English with an introduction and notes, by Paschal Robinson. Philadelphia, Dolphin Press, c1905.

Clare of Assissi

Franciscans

BX3616 .G8
Gurney-Salter, Emma. The Coming of the Friars minor to England & Germany: being the chronicles of Brother Thomas of Eccleston and Brother Jordan of Giana / translated from the critical editions of A.G. Little. London: Dent, 1926.

PQ4472 .J3 A6913 1982
Jacopone, da Todi. The Lauds / Jacopone da Todi ; translated by Serge and Elizabeth Hughes ; introduction by Serge Hughes ; preface by Elemire Zolla. New York: Paulist Press, 1982.

BV629 .W62213 1995
William, of Ockham, ca. 1285-ca. 1349. A letter to the Friars Minor, and other writings / Translated by John Kilcullen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. (Cambridge texts in the history of political thought).

B765 .O31 B6
William, of Ockham, ca. 1285-ca. 1349. Philosophical writings / a selection edited and translated by Philotheus Boehner. Edinburgh: Nelson, 1959, c1957.

Military Orders

BT760 .B52 E5 1977
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. Treatises III: On grace and free choice; In praise of the new knighthood / translated by Daniel O'Donovan and Conrad Greenia; introduction[s] by Bernard McGinn and R.J. Zwi Werblowsky. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cistercian Publications, 1977.

CR4723 .R54 1967
Riley-Smith, Jonathan. The Knights of St. John in Jerusalem and Cyprus.

• Contains the Constitution of the Hospitallers

ENGLAND

IRELAND/CELTIC

• Patrick, Saint
• Other

Saint, Patrick

BR60 .A62 Q3 1945 V.17
Patrick, Saint, 373?-463?. The Works of St. Patrick ; Hymn on St. Patrick / translated and annotated by Ludwig Bieler. New York: Newman Press, 1953. (Ancient Christian writers; no. 17).

DA25 .B5 NO.89
The Tripartite life of Patrick: with other documents relating to the Saint / edited with translations and indexes by Whitley Stokes. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1887. 2 v.

Other

KF349 .I7 A43 1865
Ancient laws of Ireland / published under direction of the Commissioners for Publishing the Ancient Laws and Institutes of Ireland. London: H.M.S.O., 1865-1901. 6 v.

• Text in English and Gaelic

DA995 .C57 A56 1896
The Annals of Clonmacnoise: being annals of Ireland from the earliest period to A.D. 1408 / translated in English A.D. 1627 by Connell Mageoghagan and edited by Denis Murphy. Dublin: University Press; Llanerch, 1896, (1993 printing). 393 p.

BX2600 .A7 1786
Archdall, Mervyn, 1723-1791. Monasticon hibernicum: or, An history of the abbies, priories, and other religious houses in Ireland. Interspersed with memoirs of their several founders and benefactors, and of their abbots and other superious, to the time of their final suppression. Dublin: L. White, 1786.

BX4700 .M23 B451 1978
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91-1153. The Life and death of Saint Malachy the Irishman. Translated and annotated by Robert T. Meyer. Kalamazoo, Mich.: Cicstercian Publications, 1978. (Cistercian Fathers series; no. 10)

BX2262 .G8 B52
Bieler, Ludwig. The Irish penitentials. Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1963.

KDK 1850 B57 1976
The Bishop's synod: (the first synod of St. Patrick) : a symposium with text, translation, and commentary / edited by M.J. Faris. Liverpool: Francis Cairns, 1976.

DA905 .C441 1866
Chronicum Scotorum. Chronicum Scotorum: a chronicle of Irish affairs, from the earliest of times to A.D. 1135: with a supplement containing the events from 1141 to 1150 / edited with a translation by William M. Hennessy. London: Longman, 1866.

PB1347 .I7
Declan, Saint, bp. of Ardmore, fl. 600-650. Life of St. Declan of Ardmore / (edited from the ms. in Bibliotheque Royale, Brussels) and Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore (edited from the ms. in the Library of Royal Irish Academy) with introduction, translation, and notes, by Rev. P. Power.

PB1345 .F54 1991
The Field Day anthology of Irish writing / general editor, Seamus Deane; associate editors: Andrew Carpenter, Jonathan Williams. Lawrence Hill, Northern Ireland: Field Day, 1991. 3 v.

• Contains some early religious works

• Text in Latin with some English translation

• Fragments in Latin and Old Irish with intercalated English translations from Old Irish

INDIVIDUALS

• Abelard and Heloise
• Alcuin
• Anselm
• Bonaventure
• Boniface
• Fulbert
• Gregory I, Pope
• Gregory VII, Pope
• Gregory, Saint
• Guibert
• Guigo
• Hugh, of Poitiers
• Hugh of Saint Victor
• Innocent III
• Peter Damian
• Peter the Venerable (Pierre le Venerable)
• Raymundis
• Richard of St. Victor
• Thomas Acquinas

Abelard and Heloise

Alcuin

PN4103 .A5 1965
Alcuin, 735-804. The Rhetoric of Alcuin & Charlemagne / a translation with an introduction, the Latin text, and notes, by Wilbur Samuel Howell.

Anselm

B765 .A83 1962
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury. Anselm of Canterbury / edited and translated by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson. Toronto: E. Mellen, 1975-1976. 4 v.

B765 .A82 E5 1975
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury. Anselm of Canterbury / edited and translated by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson. 2nd ed. Toronto: E. Mellen, 1975-1976. 4 v.

B765 .A83 1962
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury. Basic writings / translated by S.W. Deane; with an introduction by Charles Hartshone. 2d ed. La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1962.

B765 .A82 E5 1970
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury. Trinity, incarnation, and redemption: theological treatises / edited with introduction by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson. New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

B765 .A83 D451 1967
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury. Truth, freedom and evil: three philosophical dialogues / edited and translated by Jasper Hopkins and Herbert Richardson. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

BT264 .A63 C61 1969
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury. Why God became man and The Virgin conception and original sin / translation, introduction and notes by Joseph M. Colleran. Albany: Magi Books, 1969.

Augustine

BR65 .A52 E6 1984A
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Augustine of Hippo: selected writings / translation and introduction by Mary T. Clark. New York: Paulist Press, 1984.

BR60 .A62 F3
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Letters. Translated by Wilfrid Parsons. Washington: Catholic University of America Press, 1951-1989. 6 v. (Fathers of the Church).

BX2904 .Z5 L38 1987
Lawless, George. Augustine of Hippo and his monastic rule. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987.

• Contains the Latin text and English translation of the Rule of St. Augustine.

Bonaventure

BX890 .B678 1960
Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274. The Works of Bonaventure: cardinal, seraphic doctor, and saint / translated from the Latin by Jose de Vinck. Paris: Desdee, 1960. 5 v.

Boniface

BX4700 .B7 A43 1940
Bonifacius, originally Winfried, Saint, Archbishop of Mainz, 680-755. The Letters of St. Boniface / translated with an introduction by Ephraim Emerton. New York: Octagon Books, 1973. (Records of Civilization, sources and studies; 31).

BX4700 .B7 W51
Willibald. The Life of Saint Boniface / Translated into English for the first time with introduction and notes by George W. Robinson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1916.

Fulbert

Gregory I, Pope

BX4700 .B31 G71 1967
Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604. The dialogues of Gregory the Great Book two: Saint Benedict / translated, with an introduction and notes, by Myra L. Uhlfelder. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill, 1967.

• The Dialogues spread the fame of St. Benedict across Europe

• This work consists of four books of anecdotes of the lives of saints. Book Two is given entirely to an account of the life of St. Benedict (480-547) and was written some 45 years after Benedict's death

Gregory VII, Pope

BX1187 .A39 C67 1972
Gregory VII, Pope, 1015-1085. The Epistolae vagantes of Pope Gregory VII / edited and translated by H.E.J. Cowdrey. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.

Gregory, Saint

• A collection of 20 lives of saints who belonged to Gregory's own family or to the diocese of Clermont and Tours.

• Series of anecdotes about the lives and cults of early Christians. Includes useful introduction and commentary.

DC64 .G7 B7
Gregory, Saint, Bishop of Tours. History of the Franks / selections translated with notes by Ernest Brehaut. New York: Octagon Books, 1965 c1916.

Guibert

BX4705 .G674 A313 1996
Guibert, abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy, 1053-ca. 1124. A monk's confession: the memoirs of Guibert of Nogent / translated, and with an introduction by Paul J. Archambault. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, c1996.

D161.1 .G83 1997
Guibert, Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy, 1053-ca. 1124. The deeds of God through the Franks: a translation of Guibert de Nogent's Gesta Dei per Francos / [translated and edited by] Robert Levine. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY, USA: Boydell Press, 1997.

Guigo

Hugh, of Poitiers

• The Vezelay Chronicle from the Abbey of Vezelay in Burgandy, is valuable for its depiction of twelfth-century French social, ecclesiastical, and legal events.

Hugh, of Saint Victor

• Hugo of St. Victor spent most of his life as an Augustinian Canon Regular at the Monastery of St. Victor, in Paris.

Innocent III

• Texts in Latin; explanations in English.

• Parallel Latin and English texts

Lupus

• Provides a life of Carolingian monasticism

Peter Damian

Peter the Venerable (Pierre le Venerable)

Raymundus

Richard of St. Victor

BV5091 .C7 R53 1957
Richard, of St. Victor. Selected writings on contemplation / Translated with an introduction and notes by Clare Kirchberger. London: Faber and Faber, 1957.

BV5080 .R551 1979
Richard, of St. Victor. The Twelve patriarchs; The Mysical ark; Book three of The Trinity / Translation and introd. by Grover A. Zinn; pref. by Jean Chatillon. New York: Paulist Press, 1979.

Thomas, Aquinas

MYSTICISM

• Collections
• Individuals

Collections

BV5080 .B43 1990
Beguine spirituality: mystical writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant / edited and introduced by Fiona Bowie; translated by Oliver Davies. New York: Crossroad, 1990 (c1989).

• The Beguines were communities of women who lived austere, celibate lives, combining prayer and manual labour

PT5420 .C64 1965
Colledge, Edmund. Medieval Netherlands religious literature. London: House & Maxwell, 1965.

• Contents: There are seven numbers of loving, by Beatrice of Nazareth. Letters, by Hadewijch of Antwerp. The book of the sparkling stone, by Blessed John Ruysbroek. Beatrice. Mary of Nijmeghen.

BV5080 .N51 1960
Cucanus, Nicolas, Cardinal. Vision of God / with an introd. by Evelyn Underhill; [translated by Emma Gurney Salter]. New York: Ungar, 1960.

BV4805 .G3 1966
Gardner, Edmund G. The Cell of self-knowledge: seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521 / edited with an introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner. New York: Cooper Square, 1966.

• Collection of mystical treatises by Richard of St. Victor, Catherine of Siena, Marjory Kempe, and Walter Hilton.

BV5082.2 .O25 1964
O'Brien. Elmer. Varieties of mystic experience: an anthology and interpretation. New York: New American Library, 1964.

• An anthology and interpretation of writings of major mystics such as Eckhart, Tauler, Suso, Ruysbroek, and others.

• Collection of mystical writings

Individuals

• Excellent source of information for the iconographer

BV5080 .C55 1978
The Cloud of unknowing and other works / translated into modern English with an introduction by Clifton Wolters. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.

• The Cloud of Unknowing is one of the earliest English mystical treatises

BV5080 .E451 1981
Eckhart, Meister. Meister Eckhart, the essential sermons, commentaries, treatises, and defense / translation and introduction by Edmund Colledge, and Bernard McGinn. New York: Paulist Press, 1981.

BV5080 .H53713 1994
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Hildegard of Bingen: the Book of the rewards of life (Liber vitae meritorum) / translated by Bruce W. Hozeski. New York: Garland, 1994.

• Hildegard was Abbess of Reginsberg, and the first prominent women theological writer of the Middle Ages.

BV5080 .J6313 1989
John of the Cross. St. John of the Cross (San Juan de la Cruz): alchemist of the soul: his life, his poetry (bilingual), his prose / text, new edited translations by Antonio T. de Nicolas. New York: Paragon House, 1989.

BV4831 .J79 1978
Julian, of Norwich, b.1343. A Book of showings to the anchoress Julian of Norwich / edited by Edmund Colledge and James Walsh. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978. 2 v.

BV4831 .J83 1983
Julian, of Norwich, b.1343. Meditations with Julian of Norwich / introductions and versions by Brendan Doyle. Santa Fe, N.M.: Bear, 1986 c1983.

BV4831 .J84 1981
Julian, of Norwich, b.1343. A Revelation of love / edited by Marion Glasscoe. Exeter, England: University of Exeter, 1981.

BV4831 .J86 1978
Julian, of Norwich, b.1343. Showings. New York: Paulist Press, 1978.

BV5080 .C55 1941
McCann, Justin. The cloud of unknowing: and other treatises by an English mystic of the Fourteenth century / with a commentary on The Cloud by Father Augustine Baker; edited by Dom Justin McCann. 3rd ed. London: Burns, Oates and Washbourne Ltd., 1941.

BV5080 .M42 1953
Mechthild, of Magdeburg. The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297), or, The Flowing light of the Godhead / translated from the ms. in the library of the Monastery of Einsiedein by Lucy Menzies. London: Longmans, 1953.

BV5091 .M55 1981
A Mirror for the simple souls / by an anonymous thirteenth-century French mystic; [edited, translated and adapted by Charles Crawford. New York: Crossroad, 1981.

BV5080 .O871 1981
Osuna, Francisco de. The Third spiritual alphabet / translation and introduction by Mary E. Giles. New York: Paulist Press, 1981.

BV5080 .A9713 1990
Richard of St. Victor's Treatise of the study of wisdom that men call Benjamin: as adapted in Middle English by the author of the Cloud of unknowing; together with Treatise on discretion of spirits and Epistle on discretion of stirrings / translated, with introductions and notes by Dick Barnes. Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, 1990.

PE11 .C342
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole. The Contra amatores mundi of Richard Rolle of Hampole / edited, with introd. and trans. by Paul E. Theiner. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968.

PR2135 .A2 A6
Rolle, Richard, of Hampole. English writings of Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole / edited by Hope Emily Allen. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963 (c1931).

BV5080 .S861 1953
Suso, Heinrich. Little book of eternal wisdom, and, Little book of truth / translated with an introd. and notes by James M. Clark. New York: Harper, 1972 (c1953).

BV4821 .K56 1963
Thomas, a Kempis. The Imitation of Christ / translated by Betty I. Knott. London: Collins, 1963.

• Treatise on the spiritual life, first published in 1486.

WOMEN

• Ancrene Riwle
• Collections
• Individuals

Ancrene Riwle

PR1808 .A25 1984
Ackerman, Robert W. Ancrene Riwle: introduction and Part I / edited and translated, with commentary by Robert W. Ackerman and Roger Dahood. Binghamton, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1984.

PR1119 .A2 NO. 249
Ancrene wisse: the English text of the Ancrene riwle / edited from ms. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 402 by J.R.R. Tokien; with an introd. by N.R. Ker. London: Oxford University Press, 1962. (Early English Text Society (Series); no. 249).

PR1119 .A2 NO. 240
The French text of the Ancrene riwle / edited from the Trinity College, Cambridge ms. R. 14.7, with variants from Bibliotheque national ms. F. fr. 6276 and ms. Bodley 90 by W.H. Trethewey. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.

PR1807 .M66 1966
The nun's rule: being the Ancren riwle modernised / by James Morton; with introduction by Abbot Gasquet. New York: Cooper Square Publishers, 1966.

Collections

PR1119 .A2
Godstow nunnery. The English register of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford, written about 1450 / edited, with an introduction by Andrew Clark. London: Trubner, 1911.

DA670 .L69 L5
The Publications of the Lincoln Record Society. Lincoln; Eng.: LRS, 1910-.

• Vol. 7, 14, 21 are titled: Visitations of religious houses in the Diocese of Lincoln Edited by A. Hamilton Thompson. Horncastle, Morton, 1914-29. These volumes contain useful information about women in religious orders from 1420-49. Much of the information is in English.

• Fifteen selections translated into English

• All aspects of a woman's life are covered, including the religious life.

• Includes translations relevant to English religious life in Section VI (pp. 191-230).

• Collection of primary sources, in English, for the study of women's lives during the Middle Ages (500-1500 AD).

• Includes the writings of women in religion

Individuals

BV5080 .C3613 1980
Catherine, of Siena, Saint. 1347-1380. The Dialogue. Translation and introduction by Suzanne Noffke. New York: Paulist Press, 1980.

BX4700 .C4 A27 1925
Catherine, of Siena, Saint. 1347-1380. The Dialogue of the seraphic virgin, Catherine of Siena: dictated by her, while in a state of ecstasy, to her secretaries, and completed in the year of Our Lord 1370. Together with an account of her death by an eyewitness / translated from the original Italian, and preceded by an introductory essay on the life and times of the saint, by Algar Thorold. London, Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1925.

BX4700 .C4 A4 1988
Catherine, of Siena, Saint. 1347-1380. The Letters of St. Catherine of Siena / translated with introduction and notes by Suzanne Noffke. Binghamton, N.Y.: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1988. 4 v.

BX4700 .C567 L53 1987
Talbot, C.H. The Life of Christina of Markyate: a twelfth century recluse. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987 c1959.

• Text in Latin and English.

PT5559 .H32 A24 1980
Hadewijch, 13th cent. The Complete works. Translation and introduction by Mother Columba Hart. New York: Paulist Press, 1980.

BV5080 .H53713 1994
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Hildegard of Bingen: the Book of the rewards of life (Liber vitae meritorum) / translated by Bruce W. Hozeski. New York: Garland, 1994.

BV5080 .H5413 1987
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Hildegard of Bingen's Book of divine works with letters and songs / edited and introduced by Matthew Fox. Santa Fe, N.M.: Bear, 1987.

BX4700 .H5 A3
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen / translated by Joseph L. Baird, Radd K. Ehrman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994-.

BV5080 .H5513 1990
Hildegard, Saint, 1098-1179. Scivias / Hildegard of Bingen / translated by Mother Columbia Hart and Jane Bishop. New York: Paulist Press, 1990.

PA8340 .A28 1989
Hrotsvitha, ca. 935-ca.975. The plays of Hrotsvit von Gandersheim / translated by Katharina Wilson. New York: Garland, 1989.

• Benedictine nun in late 10th century western Germany

• Julian became a recluse, writing about, and interpreting, her religious experiences.

BV4831 .J84 1981
Julian, of Norwich. A Revelation of love / edited by Marion Glasscoe. Exeter, England: University of Exeter, 1981.

PR2007 .K4 A3 1985
Kempe, Margery. The book of Margery Kempe / translated by B.A. Windeatt. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin; 1985.

• English mystic whose memoirs, written in 1431, formed the first English autobiography.

BV5080 .B43 1990
Mechthild of Magdeburg, ca.1212-ca.1282. Beguine spirituality: mystical writings of Mechthild of Magdeburg, Beatrice of Nazareth, and Hadewijch of Brabant / edited and introduced by Fiona Bowie; translated by Oliver Davis. New York: Crossroad, 1990 c1989.

BV5080 .M42 1991
Mechthild, of Magdeburg, ca., 1212-ca.1282. Flowing light of the divinity / Translated by Christiane Mesch Galvani; edited, with an introduction by Susan Clark. New York: Garland, 1981.

BV5080 .M42 1953
Mechthild, of Magdeburg. The Revelations of Mechthild of Magdeburg (1210-1297), or, The Flowing light of the Godhead / translated from the ms. in the library of the Monastery of Einsiedein by Lucy Menzies.

MISCELLANEOUS

BL610 .I2613 1989
Iamblichus, ca. On the mysteries / Iamblichus of Chalcis; edited by Stephen Ronan; with the translations of Thomas Taylor & Alexander Wilder, together with two extracts from lost works of Proclus on The Sacred art & on The Signs of divine possessions=De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum. E. Sussex, England: Chthonios Books, 1989.

BX950 .E6 D38 1992
The lives of the eighth-century popes (Liber pontificalis): the ancient biographies of nine popes from AD715 to AD817 / translated with an introduction and commentary by Raymond Davis. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1992. 260 p. (Translated texts for historians; v.13).

DD126 .A56 1992
Annales Fuldenses. English. The Annals of Fulda / translated and annotated by Timothy Reuter. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.

• Annals usually consist of short, dry notes of facts in strict, annual succession.
• The Annals of Fulda cover the years 714-887.

N5975 .D37 1986
Davis-Weyer, Caecilia. Early medieval art, 300-1150: sources and documents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986.

BR270 .D48 1988
Devotio moderna: basic writings / translated and introduced by John Van Engen. New York: Paulist Press, 1988.

N6310 .F73 1971
Frisch, Teresa G. Gothic art, 1140-c.1450: sources and documents. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

• Contents include translations of writings of Abbot Suger of St. Denis; Gewase of Canterbury; etc.

DA190 .W5413
William, of Jumieges. The Gesta Normannorum ducum of William of Jumieges, Orderic Vitalis, and Robert of Torigni / edited and translated by Elisabeth M.C. van Houts. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992-1995. (Oxford medieval texts).

BX2260 .M24 1965
McNeill, John Thomas. Medieval handbooks of penance: a translation of the Principal libri poenitentiales and selections from related documents / by John T. McNeill and Helena M. Gamer. New York: Octagon Books, 1965 c1938.

BR252 .O7 C4 1969
Ordericus Vitalis. The Ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis / edited and translated with introduction and notes by Marjorie Chibnall. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969-.

BT1319 .P46 1980
Peters, Edward. Heresy and authority in medieval Europe: documents in translation / edited, with an introd. by Edward Peters. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980.

BX825 .U53 1977
Unity, heresy, and reform, 1378-1460: the conciliar respose to the great schism / C.M.D. Crowder. London: E. Arnold, 1977. (Documents of medieval history, 3).

• English translations, with commentary

Further information can be found in the Webliography Medieval History, 400-1500 A.D., Primary Sources in English in the University of Calgary Library

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