Medieval Resources
Introduction
- Major Political and Religious Developments of the Early Middle Ages
- Donation of Constantine (Medieval Source Book--weblink)
- Image of Constantine's Donation
- Medieval Atlas (weblink)
Medieval Orders
- Monastic Overview
- Medieval Orders I: The Clergy
- Ethics Reasoning Model
- Medieval Orders II-IV: The Nobility, The Merchants, The Peasants
- Changes in Medieval Commerce and Production
Conflict, Protest
Song of Roland
Medieval Islam Overview
- A Brief Chronology of Muslim History (weblink)
- Brief Overview of Islam (weblink)
Poets & Storytellers
Medieval Political Theory
- Medieval Political Readings
- Developments in Medieval Political Theory
- Chronology of the Papal-Imperial Conflict
Medieval Education
Aquinas & Scholasticism
- The Ontological Argument of Anselm
- A Companion to the Summa (classic introduction by Fr. Walter Farrell)
- Key Ideas in Summa I.3-26 (God's Nature)
- Key Ideas in Summa I-II.1-5, 6ff. (Happiness & Willing the Good)
- Key Ideas in Summa I-II.26-29, 55-70 (Love & The Virtues)
- Key Ideas in Summa I-II. Questions 71-77 & 90-97 (Vices & Law)
Bernard of Clairvaux
- Biography (website) Biosketch for his feast day
Dante
- The Great Structure of the Divine Comedy
- Levels of Interpretation in Dante
- Dante's Politics and the Prophecies in Hell
- Dante's Allegory of Eden
- Dante's Six Invocations to the Muse
- Two Stories in Paradiso