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EPISCOPUS: Society for the Study of Bishops and Secular Clergy in the Middle Ages

3rd Century)

De Singularitate Clericorum: A Third-century Treatise Against Spiritual Marriage by an anonymous cleric; trans. Diane Shane Fruchtman. Published and hosted by EPISCOPUS, 15 Aug 2014. Download the PDF.

6th Century

The Life of St. Gallus, bishop of Clermont-Ferrand (525-551) by Gregory of Tours; trans. Ernest Brehaut. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/greg-stgall.html.

7th Century

The Life of St. Eligius, bishop of Noyon-Tournai, by Dado, bishop of Rouen; trans. Jo Ann McNamara. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/eligius.html

8th Century

The Life of St. Willibrord, “apostle of Frisia”, by Alcuin of York; trans. C. H. Talbot. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/Alcuin-willbrord.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

The Life of St. Boniface, archbishop of Mainz by Willibald, ed. and trans. C. H. Talbot. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/willibald-boniface.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

The Life and Miracles of St. Cuthbert, bishop of Lindisfarne by Venerable Bede; trans. J. A. Giles. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-cuthbert.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

The Hodoeporicon of Saint Willibald, bishop of Eichstatt by Huneberc of Heidenheim; trans. C. H. Talbot. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/willibald.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

The Hodoeporicon of Saint Willibald (Prologue) by Huneberc of Heidenheim; trans. Thomas Head. Translation available at http://urban.hunter.cuny.edu/~thead/huneberc.htm. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

Letters of St. Boniface, archbishop of Mainz. Ed. and trans. C. H. Talbot. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/boniface-letters.html.

9th Century

The Life of St. Anskar, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen by Rimbert, archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen; trans. Charles H. Robinson. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html#lifeans. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

The Life of Saint Vedastus, bishop of Arras by Alcuin of York; trans. Mark Lasnier. Translation available at http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/cstraw/PrimaryDocuments/thelifeofsaintvedastus.html. (Categories: Gesta episcoporum, Misc Collections)

Gesta Josephi: The Deeds of Bishop Joseph of Le Mans (c. 784-793) Trans. Richard Barton. Translation available at http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/gestajosephi.htm. (Categories: Gesta episcoporum, Misc Collections)

Amolo Archbishop of Lyon, letter to Theobald bishop of Langres, concerning suspect relics (c.841-844). Trans. Charles West. Translation available at http://history.dept.shef.ac.uk/translations/medieval/amolo/. (Categories: Letters and letter collections, Misc Collections)

Agobard, archbishop of Lyon, On the Insolence of the Jews to Louis the Pious (826/827) Trans. W. L. North. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/agobard-insolence.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Letters and letter collections)

Agobard, archbishop of Lyon, Letter on the baptism of slaves belonging to Jews (ca. 823) Trans. W. L. North. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/agobard-baptism.html.

10th Century

Peace of God proclaimed at Synod of Charroux (989) by Archbishop Gunbald of Bordeaux; trans. O. J. Thatcher and E. H. McNeal. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/pc-of-god.html (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Juridical documents)

Liudprand of Cremona, Embassy to Constantinople Trans. Ernest F. Henderson. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/liudprand1.html

11th Century

Letters of (and concerning) Manasses I, Archbishop of Reims, and Hugh, bishop of Die and papal legate, to Pope Gregory VII (1077-1080) Trans. John S. Ott. Translation available at http://web.pdx.edu/~ott/manasses/index.html (Categories: | —–)

The Life of St. Lietbertus, bishop of Cambrai (1051-1076) by Raoul of Saint-Sepulchre of Cambrai, trans. John S. Ott. Translation available at http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst399/vitalietberti/index.html (Categories: Misc Collections, Vitae and miracula)

The Life of Burchard Bishop of Worms, 1025 Trans. William North. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1025burchard-vita.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Vitae and miracula)

The Lex Familiae Wormatiensis of Burchard, Bishop of Worms (1014) Trans. Steven Lane, from the ed. of L. Weinrich. Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/lexworms.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Juridical documents)

Peace-pact proclamation (1035-1067) of Drogo, bishop of Therouanne and Count Baldwin V of Flanders Trans. O. J. Thatcher and E. H. McNeal, revised with notes by John S. Ott. Translation available at http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/drogopeace/index.html. (Categories: Juridical documents, Misc Collections)

Letters of the clergy of Cambrai and Noyon in defense of clerical marriage (ca. 1078) Trans. John S. Ott. Translation available at http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst407Church/letter/index.html. (Categories: Letters and letter collections, Misc Collections)

Letters of Pope Alexander II (1061-1073) to clergy and bishops Trans. John S. Ott. Translation available at http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/hst399/Alexanderletters/index.html. (Categories: Letters and letter collections, Misc Collections)

Letter of the Bishops of Germany to Pope Gregory VII (1076) Trans. Ernest F. Henderson. Translation available at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/inv03.htm. (Categories: Letters and letter collections, Misc Collections)

Letter of Raimbaud, archbishop of Arles, to the Italian clergy concerning the Peace and Truce of God (ca. 1040-1043) Trans. O. J. Thatcher and E. H. McNeil; rev. by John S. Ott. Translation available at http://web.pdx.edu/~ott/arlespeace/index.html. (Categories: Letters and letter collections, Misc Collections)

Letter of Pope Gregory VII to Bishop Hermann of Metz (March 1081) Trans. Ernest F. Henderson. Translation available at http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/medieval/inv14.htm.

12th Century

The Life of St. Arnulf, bishop of Soissons (1081-1087) by Hariulf, abbot of Oldenburg and Lisiard, bishop of Soissons; trans. John S. Ott Translation available at http://www.web.pdx.edu/%7Eott/vitaarnulfi/index.html. (Categories: Misc Collections, Vitae and miracula)

Letters on uxorious clergy in Flanders and Picardy, 1093-1115 Trans. John S. Ott. Translation available at http://www.web.pdx.edu/~ott/lettersonfornication/index.html.

13th Century

Jacques de Vitry, bishop of Acre: Sermons to a Military Order (Sermones Vulgares) Ed. J. P. Vitra; trans. Helen J. Nicholson Translation available at http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/vitry.htm. (Categories: De Re Militari, Sermons)

Ecclesiastical and royal conflict in Beauvais Trans. Richard Barton< Translation available at http://www.uncg.edu/~rebarton/beauvaisdossier.htm.

14th Century

The Register of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury, 1315-1330 Trans. Richard Barton Translation available at http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1330martival.html. (Categories: Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB), Registers)

Crusade of Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich by Thomas Walsingham; ed. and trans. John Taylor, et al.< Translation available at http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/walsingham.htm. (Categories: Chronicles and annals, Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMB))

Crusade of Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich Westminster Chronicle; ed. and trans. L.C. Hector, and B. F. Harvey Translation available at http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/westminster.htm. (Categories: Chronicles and annals, De Re Militari)

Crusade of Henry Despenser, bishop of Norwich by Henry Knighton; ed. and trans. G.H. Martin Translation available at http://www.deremilitari.org/resources/sources/knighton.htm.