- Portable Library: The Portable Medieval Reader No. 46 (1977, Paperback) read online book FB2, DJV
9780140150469 0140150463 In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voicesof kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholarsthat together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window.", Sampling from 1050 to 1500, this anthology contains writings by more than a hundred writers including Chaucer, Dante, Petrach, Thomas Aquinas, Peter Abelard, Leonardo, Friar Bacon, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, John of Salisbury, William Langland and Nicholas of Cusa.
9780140150469 0140150463 In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voicesof kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, chroniclers, and scholarsthat together convey a lively, intimate impression of a world that might otherwise seem immeasurably alien. All the aspects and strata of medieval society are represented here: the life of monasteries and colleges, the codes of knigthood, the labor of peasants and the privileges of kings. There are contemporary accounts of the persecution of Jews and heretics, of the Crusades in the Holy Land, of courtly pageants, popular uprisings, and the first trade missions to Cathay. We find Chaucer, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas and Abelard alongside a host of lesser-known writers, discoursing on all the arts, knowledge and speculation of their time. The result, according to the Columbia Record, is a broad and eminetly readable "cross section of source history and literature...as rich and varied as a stained glass window.", Sampling from 1050 to 1500, this anthology contains writings by more than a hundred writers including Chaucer, Dante, Petrach, Thomas Aquinas, Peter Abelard, Leonardo, Friar Bacon, Boccaccio, Saint Francis of Assisi, John of Salisbury, William Langland and Nicholas of Cusa.