>From Remote Medieval text suggestions?
I will be teaching a seminar on medieval England in the fall. It is
intended as an intensive seminar primarily for majors, and what I'd like to
do is to spend a couple of weeks each on six or so major texts or collections
of primary texts. Obviously the first one is Bede, and probably the Penguin
volume on Alfred the Great next. I can come up with plenty of material for
the period from the Conquest through Stephen (Domesday and a reader called
_The Normans in Britain_). But apart from Magna Carta, I'm having a problem
with the period from Henry II through Edward III. I'd use Jocelin, but the
same students have read him in a medieval seminar this term. Someone last
summer mentioned some readers privately published by the Texas Medieval
Association, but letters to them go unanswered. Does anyone have any
suggestions? There's always _English Historical Documents_, to be sure, but
it's rather awkward to do in-class close reading of something one can only
use on reserve.
Many thanks.
Lucy Moye
Department of History
Hillsdale College
lucy.moye@ac.hillsdale.edu
Editor's Note: Two possibilities that come to mind are William FitzStephen
and Gerald of Wales.