Categories of Medieval Culture

1.The Norman Conquest i) Domesday Book - Motives for its Formation; Extracts; Statistics ii). William of Malmesbury's account of the Norman Conquest iii). An Estimate of William the Conqueror from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 2. The constitutional Struggle Between the Brons and the Monarchy 3. The Catholic Church 4. Trade Guilds and Universities 5. The Age of the Crusades i) The First Crusade: Extract from William of Malmesbury's Chronicle of the Kings of England ii) Extracts from the Itinerarium Kambriae of Giraldus Cambrensis iii) Extracts from Joinville's Chronicle of the Crusade of St. Louis iv) Extracts from the Voyages and Travels of 'Sir John Maundeville' v) Extracts from the Works of Roger Bacon 6. The Hundred Years' War i) The Military Exploits: Froissart's Account of the Battle of Crecy ii) The War and the Church 7. The Black Death i) The Statute of Labourers, 1349 ii) The Second Statute of Labourers, 1351 iii) Population of England as Recorded in the Poll-Tax Accounts of 1377 and 1381 iv) Extracts from the Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales v) The Vision of Piers Plowman: Prologue and Parts of Passus I 8. The Decline of Medieval Civilization i) A Selection from the Paston Letters ii) Extracts from the Stonor Papers 9. The End of the Middle Ages i) The Libel of English Policy ii) Extracts from More's History of King Richard III