A fully updated and revised edition of a classic medieval source collection, featuring clear modern English translations based on the best available critical editions of over 116 documentary sources — more than any other book of its kind.

Also includes:

• Thirty-four artifactual sources ranging from fine art to everyday item
• A broad topical, geographical, and chronological approach, including textual and artifactual selections that shed light on such often-overlooked cohorts as women, Jews in Christian Europe, Byzantium, and Islam, and that range in time from the second century to 1493Introductions and notes setting each source in its historical context
• A detailed Student's Guide providing step-by-step instruction on how to analyse documentary and artifactual sources
• Numerous illustrations in each chapter
• Topical Contents and a Glossary to assist students in their research