Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (eBook, ePUB) - Henderson, Ernest Flagg
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To students of history, this book will assuredly become ( to use a hackneyed , but in this case correct word ) indispensable . The documents that are carefully translated in these pages cover nine hundred years of the great medieval period. It is positively delightful to be able to lay hold of a single easily - held volume, and to find all these rich stores at once pleasantly accessible . The volume is divided into four sections or books, each having its own introductory chapter. These sections are England, the Empire, the Church, and Church and State. Under the first head are included Laws of…mehr

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To students of history, this book will assuredly become ( to use a hackneyed , but in this case correct word ) indispensable . The documents that are carefully translated in these pages cover nine hundred years of the great medieval period. It is positively delightful to be able to lay hold of a single easily - held volume, and to find all these rich stores at once pleasantly accessible . The volume is divided into four sections or books, each having its own introductory chapter. These sections are England, the Empire, the Church, and Church and State. Under the first head are included Laws of the Conqueror, Bull of Adrian IV . empowering Henry II . to conquer Ireland, Constitutions of Clarendon, Assize of Clarendon, Exchequer Dialogue, Laws of Richard, Magna Carta, Statutes of Mortmain and Quia Emptores, Manner of holding Parliament ( fourteenth century ), and Statute of Labourers. Under the second head are the Salic Law, Capitulary of Charlemagne, Division of the Empire, Treaty at Aix, Truce of God, Peace of the Land, Duchy of Austria, Gelnhausen Charter, Count Palatine as King of the Romans, Golden Bull of Charles IV ., and Charter of Heidelberg . Under the third head are the Rule of St. Benedict, Ordeal Formulas, Forged Donation of Constantine, Foundation of Cluny, Summons of Pope Eugene III . to a Crusade, Decree of Papal Elections, 1179, Summons of Pope Innocent III. to genuine fieldwork etc. etc.