The Long Middle

Sources

Scripture is the Berean Standard Bible.

1. The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (read 2026)
2. Bede, Ecclesiastical History of England 1.30, 2.1, 3.3, 3.5, 3.25 and 4.24, with Cuthbert's letter on Bede's death, revised translation by A. M. Sellar (London: George Bell and Sons, 1907)
3. Willibald, The Life of Saint Boniface, chapters 6 and 8, translated by George W. Robinson (Harvard University Press, 1916)
4. Boniface to the abbess Eadburga, in The English Correspondence of Saint Boniface, translated by Edward Kylie (London: Chatto and Windus, 1911)
5. Einhard, Life of Charlemagne 28, translated by Samuel Epes Turner (Harper, 1880), with A. J. Grant's translation (1905)
6. The Capitulary for Saxony, chapters 8 and 19, translated by D. C. Munro, Translations and Reprints volume 6 number 5 (University of Pennsylvania, 1900)
7. Annales regni Francorum, the year 782, edited by F. Kurze (Hannover, 1895), Latin.
8. C. J. B. Gaskoin, Alcuin: His Life and His Work (1904), with Alcuin's letters to Charles and to Arno in its notes.
9. Philip Schaff and David S. Schaff, History of the Christian Church, volume 4 (1910 edition), volume 5 part 1 (1907), volume 6 (1910) and volume 7 (second edition, revised)
10. The Russian Primary Chronicle, translated by Samuel Hazzard Cross, Harvard Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature 12 (1930)
11. Henry R. Percival, The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF2 14, 1899): the decree of the Seventh Council (787)
12. O. J. Thatcher and E. H. McNeal, A Source Book for Mediaeval History (Scribner, 1905): the Dictatus Papae, Gregory VII to the German princes, Fulcher of Chartres and Robert the Monk on Clermont, and Unam Sanctam.
13. E. F. Henderson, Select Historical Documents of the Middle Ages (London: George Bell and Sons, 1896): the Dictatus Papae and Unam Sanctam.
14. August C. Krey, The First Crusade: The Accounts of Eye-Witnesses and Participants (Princeton, 1921): Albert of Aachen, the Gesta Francorum and Raymond of Aguilers.
15. Solomon bar Samson, Chronicle, translated by Jacob R. Marcus, The Jew in the Medieval World (Jewish Publication Society, 1938)
16. Bernard of Clairvaux, Letters 106 and 363, in Life and Works of Saint Bernard, translated by Samuel J. Eales, volumes 1 and 2 (London: Burns and Oates, 1889)
17. Geoffrey de Villehardouin, The Conquest of Constantinople, translated by Frank T. Marzials (Dent, 1908)
18. Innocent III to the legate Peter, given 12 July, translated by James Brundage, The Crusades: A Documentary History (Marquette, 1962)
19. The anonymous chronicle of Laon on Valdes, translated by J. H. Robinson (1905), and Walter Map, De nugis curialium 1.31, edited by M. R. James (1914)
20. Francis of Assisi, the First Rule and the Testament, in The Writings of Saint Francis of Assisi, translated by Paschal Robinson (Philadelphia: Dolphin Press, 1906)
21. The canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, translated by H. J. Schroeder, Disciplinary Decrees of the General Councils (Herder, 1937)
22. Henry Charles Lea, A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, volume 1 (Harper, 1887)
23. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica I q.1 a.1 and a.8 and II-II q.11 a.3, translated by the Fathers of the English Dominican Province (Benziger Brothers print)
24. Anselm, Proslogium, with Gaunilo's reply, and Cur Deus Homo, its preface and book 2, chapter 6, translated by Sidney Norton Deane (Chicago: Open Court, 1903); the CCEL record gives his years as 1033 to 1109.
25. Catherine of Siena to Gregory XI, in Saint Catherine of Siena as Seen in Her Letters, translated by Vida D. Scudder (Dent, 1905)
26. John Wycliffe, Of the Office of Pastors, chapter 15, in The English Works of Wyclif Hitherto Unprinted, edited by F. D. Matthew (Early English Text Society, 1880)
27. G. V. Lechler, John Wycliffe and His English Precursors, translated by Peter Lorimer (1884), quoting Wycliffe's On the Truth of Holy Scripture.
28. Henry Gee and William John Hardy, Documents Illustrative of English Church History (London: Macmillan, 1896): the Blackfriars condemnation of 1382 and the statute of 1401.
29. The General Prologue to the Wycliffite Bible, chapter 15, in J. Forshall and F. Madden, The Holy Bible ... by John Wycliffe and His Followers, volume 1 (Oxford, 1850)
30. Margaret Deanesly, The Lollard Bible and Other Medieval Biblical Versions (Cambridge, 1920): Innocent III to Metz, the synod of Toulouse and Arundel's constitutions.
31. F. A. Gasquet, The Old English Bible and Other Essays (London: Nimmo, 1897)
32. Lincoln College, Oxford, "Lincoln's rare Wycliffite Bible digitised" (news page)
33. The Letters of John Hus, Letter 64 and the letter of the Saturday before Martinmas 1414, translated by Herbert B. Workman and R. Martin Pope (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1904)
34. John Huss, The Church, chapter 4, translated by David S. Schaff (Scribner, 1915)
35. Count Lutzow, The Life and Times of Master John Hus (London: Dent, 1909), with Peter of Mladonovice's account of 6 July 1415.
36. Luther to Spalatin, February 1520, in Preserved Smith, The Life and Letters of Martin Luther (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911), p. 72.
37. Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, chapters 2, 27 and 86, edited by Grace Warrack (London: Methuen, 1901)
38. Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, book 1, chapter 3, translated by William Benham.
39. Library of Congress, "Gutenberg Bible" (exhibit page)
40. Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, volume 1 (fifth edition, London, 1829)
41. Bede, De temporum ratione 32, Latin, in Migne, Patrologia Latina 90.
42. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Inventing the Flat Earth (Praeger, 1991), cited from the publisher's description.
43. Thomas F. Madden, "The Real History of the Crusades", Crisis Magazine (2002)
44. Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chapter 61.
45. John of Damascus, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith 1.8, translated by S. D. F. Salmond (NPNF2 9, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1898)
46. The Joint Catholic-Orthodox Declaration of Paul VI and Athenagoras I, 7 December 1965.
47. The Rule of Saint Benedict, chapter 16, translated by D. O. Hunter Blair (London: Sands, 1907)
48. Thomas Aquinas, Catena Aurea, the Oxford translation: Matthew (London: J. G. F. and J. Rivington, 1842) and Luke (Oxford: John Henry Parker, 1843), for Rabanus Maurus and Bede.

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