Cluny and Other Reforms of the Central Middles Ages
Cluny
Charters of Cluny from The Cluny Project
The Cluny Project has extensive resources, including texts about Cluny and people associated with the monastery, images, and reconstructions of its possible appearance. You won't believe the links to reconstructions, including quicktime videos. Go there!
The Reform of Church Law: The Canonists
Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
The Life of Burchard Bishop of Worms.
Scholasticism
The School of Chartres:
Richer of Rheims: Journey to Chartres
Anselm:
Proof of the Existence of God.
See also Catholic Encyclopedia: Anselm.
Anselm (1033-1109): Proslogium
Gaunilo: In Behalf of the Fool, with Anselm's: Reply
MonologiumSidney Dean's Introduction to Anselm's Writing
Philosophers' Criticisms of Anselm's Ontological Argument for the Being of God
Catholic Encyclopedia: Nominalism, Realism, Conceptualism
Abelard
Historia calamitatum excerpts in English
History of My Calamities full text in English (Henry Adams Bellows translation)
Latin Text of the Historia Calamitatum
Catholic Encyclopedia: Peter Abelard
Chronicles of Love and Resentment - Abelard and Heloise by Eric Gans.
Biography of Abelard from the Maritain Center; another Biography with a hymn and a prayer of Abelard's; the Ecole Glossary Biography
Peripateticus Palatinus: Story of Abelard from the ORB in three parts.
Fulk, Prior of Deuil, Letter to Peter Abelard
Heloise's Letter to Abelard in English translation, and in Latin and French translations.
Abelard and Heloise in the Art of Jean Vignaud.
Rage of the Heart Web Site: Musical about Abelard and Heloise
The Pen(is), Castration, and Identity: Abelard's Negotiations of Gender by Martine Irvine, Georgetown
Alexander Pope's Eloisa to Abelard
For the later scholastics, see the Dominican and Franciscan Pages.
The Twelfth-Century Renaissance
Guibert of Nogent (1053-1124): Autobiography, and On His Childhood, excerpts from the Autobiography.
Adelard of Bath: Natural Questions, on the impact of Muslim science in the West.
Theophilus: An Essay Upon Diverse Arts
Alain of Lille (d.1203): The Plaint of Nature, full text.
Anglo-Norman Monasticism
Chronicle of the Abbey of St. Edmunds; see especially the Abbey of St. Edumunds and the Jews, and Gerald of Wales's account of the Discovery of the Tomb of King Arthur from his De Instructione Principis.
Manors of the Abbey of St. Peter, Winchester, from the Domesday Book
Charter of St. Patrick used by Glastonbury to elevate its status; see also the earlier grant of exemption from taxation to Glastonbury by King Edgar
Photo by Dr. Vess.
