Readings: The Medieval Synthesis

1. Monastic Expansion: The Charter of Cluny
   (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
2. Laws of William the Conqueror, 1066
   (The English Server at Carnegie-Mellon)
3. Urban II's Speech on the Crusade
4. The Song of Roland
5. Documents from the Arxiu Capitular of Vic
   ( American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, University of Kansas)
6. Lords and Peasants in 12th and 13th Century Catalonia
   ( American Academy of Research Historians of Medieval Spain, University of Kansas)
7. Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
8. Aquinas, Summa Theologica
9. Hildegard of Bingen, O virga ac diadem
10. Abelard, Sic et Non
11. Jacques de Vitry on the Life of a Medieval Student
    (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
12. Medieval University Courses in Theology and Medicine
    (Internet Medieval Sourcebook)
13. Rules of the University of Paris
14. Roger Bacon on Experimental Science

Internet Resources

• The Aberdeen Bestiary Project
• The Bayeux Tapestry
• Brut
  (Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan)
• Medieval Manuscript Leaves
  (Wallace Library, Rochester Institute of Technology)
• Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham University)
• Monarchs and Monasteries
  (a joint exhibit of the Library of Congress and the Bibliotheque National)
• Castles of Wales
• The Magna Carta
  ( Treasures of the British Library)