Basic Documents in Medieval History by Downes, Norton - 1959

Princeton NJ: D. van Nostrand, 1959 A compendium of more than eightly documents in translation, this compact collection offers a remarkable wellrounded picture of the times - Church and Empire, baron and serf, Norseman and Muscovite, heretic and crusader, clerk and merchant, the Black Death and taxes. The standard documents are here, many in new and fluent translations, along with less familiar selections that appear for the first time in English. Ranging in date from Tacitus' 'Germania' to legal and official papers of the fifteenth century, the documents cover a wide range of topics: law, constitutional development, the Church, the universities, and political, economic and social history. The bulk deal with Europe before 1300. 182p. indexx10,5. 1st Pbk Edition. Softcover. Fine.