Marie de France

Marie de France, Lais

Raymond of Capua, Life of Catherine of Siena

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich, Showings

Peter Abelard

Peter Abelard, A History of My Misfortunes

Chretien de Troyes, Lancelot

Felix, Life of Guthlac

Geoffrey of Monmouth

Geoffrey of Monmouth, History of the Kings of Britain

Willibald, Life of Boniface

Athanasius of Alexandria, Life of Antony

Odo of Rouen, Register

Published by Matthew Gabriele, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Virginia Tech.

Martyrdoms of Sts. Perpetua & Polycarp

Mainz Anonymous & Solomon bar Simson

Ibn Battuta, The Travels

The Templar of Tyre

Peter Abelard - The Collationes

"Dream of the Rood" & "The Battle of Maldon"

Juan Gines de Sepulveda & Bartolomeo de las Casas - Valladolid 1550

The Conquest of the New World - Cortes & the Aztecs

The Black Death

Malleus Maleficarum

On Witches - Pope Innocent VIII and the Malleus Maleficarum

Absolutely wonderful excerpts of medieval sources explained in historical settings.  Uncomplicated, entertaining, and explained contextually by a Master Teacher.  Wish these mini-lectures were longer.   Great thanks to the professor who shared these.

Medieval Sources

Very nicely done introductions-aimed at an upper division undergraduate audience- of important European medieval source material that will be familiar to very few listeners outside the field.  Be warned though- these are only 3-5 minutes long-so just as each one starts to get intresting it ends.

essential sources of medieval studies

Podcasts on Medieval Texts

Responses to Heresy & The Song of the Cathar Wars

Veronica Franco

Veronica Franco - Letters & Poems

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