Medieval Latin Texts for Study

These texts have been prepared and annotated by students in Latin 228, Introduction to Medieval Latin, at the University of Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1997, supervised by James J. O"Donnell. The individual papers have not been vetted thoroughly and may contain typical student errors; use advisedly and please report corrections. Students and teachers are welcome to use them however they may see fit. At the very least, this presents an interesting and diverse collection of texts suitable for reading and study by incipient medievalists.

Sacred Spaces, on spatial imagery in Augustine's Confessions, by Glen Aduana

Consentius of Minorca to Augustine, a fifth-century heresy-hunt, by Christopher T. Lee

St. Augustine's Sermon on the Mount, by Dan Knepper

Polyeuktos' the Martyr's Page, by Todd Parment

To Be or Not to Be the Bishop of Salona?!, or Dalmatian church politics c. 600, by Masa Culomovic

Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Job, by Jill Johnson-Duffield

Anselm, Cur Deus Homo, by Neil Van Leeuwen

Semiramis: A Latin Myth from the 11th Century AD, by Alice Birnbaum

Two Plays from Hildesheim, by Julie A. Turner

Albertus Magnus de secretis mulierum, by Geoff Menkowitz

Metaphysica Fratris Rogeri (Roger Bacon), by Amanda Bradford

Carmina Burana, by Henrietta Jones

The French Connection (Chaucer as Translator of Boethius), by J.K. Barret

Erasmus, Praise of Folly (excerpt from the introductory chapters), by Roger Geissler

On the Folly of Grammarians and Christians, from Erasmus' Praise of Folly, by Matt Bruns

Altercationes duae insectae, by Alphibian Ranano, known IRL as Allen Romano