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Bibliography - The Medieval World 1200 - 1500 (HI127)

The Church and Religious Life
  • Bossy, John, Christianity in the West, 1400-1700 (Oxford, 1985)
  • Brooke, C.N.L., and Brooke, R.B., Popular Religion in the Middle Ages, 1000-1300 (London, 1984)
  • Crowder, C.M.D., Unity, Heresy and Reform, 1378-1460 (London, 1977)
  • Hamilton, Bernard, Religion in the Medieval West (London, 1986)
  • Head, T., and R. Landes (eds), The Peace of God: Social Violence and Religious Response in France Around the Year 1000 (1992)
  • Le Goff, Jacques, The Birth of Purgatory, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (London, 1984)
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Montaillou, trans. Barbara Bray (London, 1978)
  • Lynch, Joseph H., The Medieval Church: A Brief History (Harlow, 1992)
  • Oakley, Francis, The Western Church in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, 1980)
  • Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform 1250-1550 (New Haven, 1980)
  • Southern, Richard, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (Harmondsworth, 1970)
  • Swanson, R.N., Religion and Devotion in Europe c.1215 - c.1515 (Cambridge, 1995)
The Papacy
  • Barraclough, Geoffrey, The Medieval Papacy (London, 1968)
  • Burns, J.H., and Izbicki, Thomas (eds. and trans.), Conciliarism and Papalism (Cambridge, 1997)
  • Mallett, Michael, The Borgias (London, 1969)
  • Mollat, Guillaume, The Popes at Avignon, trans. Janet Love (London, 1963)
  • Morris, C., The Papal Monarchy: the Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (Oxford, 1989)
  • Partner, Peter, The Lands of St Peter (London, 1972)
  • Renouard, Yves, The Avignon Papacy, 1305-1403 (London, 1970)
  • Reuter, Timothy, ‘The Papacy, Religious Change and Church Reform, 1049-1125’, TLTP tutorial (1998)
  • Robinson, I.S., The Papacy 1073-1198: Continuity and Innovation (Cambridge, 1990)
  • Sayers, Jane, Innocent III (London, 1994)
  • Thomson, J., Popes and Princes 1417-1518 (London, 1980)
  • Ullmann, Walter, A Short History of the Papacy in the Middle Ages (London, 1974)
  • Ullmann, Walter, The Growth of Papal Government in the Middle Ages, 3rd ed. (London, 1970)
  • Lawrence, C.H., Medieval Monasticism, 2nd ed. (Harlow, 1989)
  • Barber, Malcolm, The Cathars (Harlow, 2000)
  • Bartos, F.M., The Hussite Revolution 1424-1437 (Boulder, 1986)
  • Biller, Peter, ‘Through a Glass Darkly: Seeing Medieval Heresy’, in Peter Linehan and Janet Nelson (eds), The Medieval World (London, 2001), pp. 308-26
  • Cohn, Norman, The Pursuit of the Millenium, rev. ed. (London, 1993)
  • Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose, trans. William Weaver (London, 1984)
  • Lambert, Malcolm, The Cathars (Oxford, 1998)
  • Lambert, Malcolm, Medieval Heresy, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1992)
  • Leff, Gordon, Heresy in the Later Middle Ages, 2 vols (Manchester, 1967)
  • Le Roy Ladurie, Emmanuel, Montaillou, trans. Barbara Bray (London, 1978)
  • Wakefield, Walter L., and Evans, Austin P. (eds. and trans.), Heresies of the High Middle Ages (New York, 1969) [An important collection of documents]

The Friars

  • Armstrong, Regis J., and Brady, Ignatius C. (eds.), Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (New York, 1982)
  • Armstrong, Regis J., et al. (eds. and trans.), Francis of Assisi: Early Documents: The Saint (Hyde Park, NY, 1999)
  • Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose, trans. William Weaver (London, 1984)
  • Lawrence, C.H., The Friars (Harlow, 1994)