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Internet Medieval Sourcebook
Selected Sources: France
Contents
General
Note that area we know as France is so central to medieval studies
that sources relating to its history are scattered everywhere in the Sourcebook. See, for
example, the sections on:
- The Early Germans
- The Carolingians
- 10 C Collapse, Feudalism and Recovery
- Economic Life
- Livre des Sources Médiévales
A section of the Sourcebook devoted to texts available in French. This section
begins life with an ample selection of over 150 etexts from the middle ages until the end
of the Ancien Regime. Most are in French, but some are in Latin, Langue d'oc and Langue
d'oil.
- WEB Gallica
Gallica is the website of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is aa major online repository of documents, articles, books and manuscripts.
- WEB Sources d'histoire médiévale [Persée]
Persée is a digital library of open access, mostly French-language scholarly journals, established by the Ministry of National Education of France. The full text of 53 volumes of medieval sources translated from French is now available online.
The Regions of the Kingdom
of France
- Synod of Charroux: Peace of God
Proclaimed, 989.
- Drogo of Terouanne: Truce of God ,
1063.
- Chronicle of the Counts of Anjou, c.1100, trans. Steve
Lane
- Gesta Arnaldi: The Deeds of
Bishop Arnald of Le Mans and the Le Mans Commune, 1065-1081, trans. Richard Barton
From a compilation known as the Acts of the Bishops Living in the City of Le Mans,
froma period when Maine was the object of a lengthy power struggle between Normandy and
Anjou.The text also also provides the most detailed evidence for one of the earliest
French communes - that of Le Mans in 1070.
- Dudo of St. Quentin (c. 965-died before 1043): Gesta Normannorum (written btw. 996-1015), ed. and trans. Felice Lifshitz. Transcription of Latin Text also available, [At this site, was at ORB Library]
The Rise of Capetian France
- The last-ever Carolingian capitulary, issued by Carloman II at Ver, and targetted at thieves. 884, March: [At Salutemmundo] [Internet Archive backup of index page here]
- Ordo to crown the first non-Carolingian West Frankish king, Odo. 888: [At Salutemmundo] [Internet Archive backup of index page here]
- Flodard of Rheims (893/4-966): The Death of King Loius IV 954 [At After Empire] [Internet Archive version here]
- A genealogy of Count Arnulf the Great of Flanders written by Witger the priest. 962, circa: [At Salutemmundo] [Internet Archive backup of index page here]
- Richer: The Election of Hugh Capet, 987
- The Fécamp Chronicle, a very early history of Normandy.c 1000: [At Salutemmundo] [Internet Archive backup of index page here]
- Odorannus of Sens (mid 11th century: The Origins, Deeds and Death of Queen Theodechild, and the Construction of the Monastery of Saint-Pierre-le-Vif [At After Empire] [Internet Archive version here]
- Ralph Glaber (d.c.1046): The Battle of Nouy, from Rodulfus Glaber 1044 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- A notice describing the coronation of King Philip I. 1058, May 23rd: [At Salutemmundo] [Internet Archive backup of index page here]
- The Battles of Saint Aubin (1053) and Mortemer (1054) [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
William, Duke of Normandy, battles in France before invasion of England.
- The Murder of Charles the Good 1127
- Walter of Thérouanne: Description of a Motte and Bailey Castle from Flanders, 12th century [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Louis VI
- Peasant Servitude and Obligations: Rulings by Louis VI and Louis VII of France (12th Century), , trans. Richard Barton.
- Disputing and Dispute Resolution in Monastic Charters from the Vendômois, c. 1040-1118, trans. Richard Barton.
14 documents from the Cartulaire de la Trinité de Vendôme with reference to monastic life, rural life, dispute resolution, duels.
The France of Philip II
Augustus
- Rigord of St. Denis (1145/50-1209): Deeds of Philip II Augustus, trans Paul Hyams, full text? [Was At Cornell, now Internet Archive]
- Rigord of St. Denis (1145/50-1209): Deeds of Philip II Augustus, trans Paul Hyams, full text, [Here by permission]
- Rigord of St. Denis (1145/50-1209): The King of France on the Third Crusade from Gesta Philippi Augusti (The Deeds of Philip Augustus), by Rigord of St. Denis, translated by Paul Hyams (Cornell University) and expanded G.A. Loud
- Philip II Augustus: Suppression of Etampes Commune,
1199-1200, trans. Richard Barton
- Warfare in Normandy, 1201-1204, according to Rigord’s Deeds of Phillip Augustus [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Cathedral Chapter of Chartres: The Riot of 1210,
trans. Richard Barton
The circumstances of the Chartres Riot of 1210 described from the viewpoint of the
Cathedral chapter. It provides clear insight into urban social tensions, and also sheds
light on elements of liturgical procedure (particularly the liturgy of excommunication),
on the cult of the Virgin, and on the increasing competency of the French crown in
judicial matters.
- The Battle of Bouvines (1214) [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here] [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- Three Disputes involving the Cathedral Chapter of
Notre-Dame of Chartres, 1215-1224
- Two Poems by the Twelfth-Century Knight-Troubadour Bertran de Born [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here
St Louis (King Louis IX)
(b.1414-r.1226-d.1270)
Philip IV (b.1268-r.1285-d.1314)
The Hundred Years War (1337-1453)
- Jean Froissart (1337-c.1405): Chronicles translated by John Bourchier (Harvard Classics 1910), full text
- Jean Froissart (1337-c.1405):: Chronicles translated by John Bourchier (Harvard Classics 1910), PDF [Internet Archive]
- Jean Froissart: Battles
of Crecy 1346, of Poitiers 1356, from Chronicles.
- Jean Froissart (1337-c.1405):
Tales from Froissart. [At Nipissing] [Internet Archive version here]
Selection of short excerpts from Froissart.
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet (c.1400-1453) : Chronicles (13 volumes), fill text, translated [Project Gutenberg]
Volume 1: Begins where Froissart ends. [See Wikipedia: Enguerrand de Monstrelet]
- Jean Froissart (1337-c.1405): The Jacquerie,
1358, from Chronicles
- Deeds of Arms A Collection of Accounts of Formal Deeds of Arms of the Fourteenth Century,
edited by Steven Muhlberger [At Nipissing] [Internet Archive version here]
- Anonimalle Chronicle: Peasant
Uprising of 1381.
- Enguerrand de Monstrelet: The Battle of Agincourt, 1415 [At De Re Militari] [Internet Archive version here]
- The Hundred Years War In The High Court of Parlement,
trans Fred Cheyette.
- Hundred Years War: Treaty of Troyes, 1420 and
Conditions in France in 1422.
- Philippe de Commynes: Portrait of Louis IX [r.
1461-1483] (c. 1498)
- Joan of Arc
NOTES: Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or
location]. No indication means that the text file is local. WEB indicates a link to one of
small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially
valuable overview.
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