Notes
1 Quoted in Henry Maguire, “Images of the Court,” in The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the
Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261, ed. Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom (New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997), p.183. Return to text.
2 Romanus I Lecapenus, Novel, in Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the
Islamic World, ed. Barbara H. Rosenwein, 2nd ed. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), p.
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3 The Russian Primary Chronicle, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 215. Return to text.
4 Al-Tabari, The Defeat of the Zanj Revolt, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 172. Return to text.
5 Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Treatise on Logic, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 204. Return to text.
6 Al-Qabisi, A Treatise Detailing the Circumstances of Students and the Rules Governing Teachers and
Students, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 199. Return to text.
7 Agreements between Count William of the Aquitanians and Hugh IV of Lusignan, in Reading the Middle
Ages, p. 183. Return to text.
8 Charter of Guillem Guifred, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 189. Return to text.
9 Andrew of Fleury, The Miracles of St. Benedict, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 187. Return to text.
10 King Alfred, Prefaces to Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 221. Return
to text.
11 The Battle of Brunanburh, in The Battle of Maldon and Other Old English Poems, trans. Kevin
Crossley-Holland, ed. Bruce Mitchell (London: McMillan, 1966), p. 42. Return to text.
12 For an image of this runestone see The Jelling Monument, in Reading the Middle Ages, Plate 13, p. 249.
For the quote, ibid., p. 226. Return to text.
13 Ruotger, Life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 218. Return to text.
14 Ibid., p. 217. Return to text.
15 See Thietmar of Merseburg, Chronicle, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 212. Return to text.
16 For an image of this coin, see Reading the Middle Ages, Plate 12, p. 248. Return to text.