Notes
1 Nicephorus Gregoras, Roman History, 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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2 Louis Guibert, ed. and trans., Le livre de raison d’Etienne Benoist (Limoges, 1882), p. 43. Return to text.
3 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, trans. Nevill Coghill (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977), p.
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4 Ashikpashazade, Othman Comes to Power, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 455. Return to text.
5 Froissart, Chronicles, in Reading the Middle Ages, pp. 469–70. Return to text.
6 Jeanne d’Arc, Letter to the English, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 475. Return to text.
7 Christine de Pisan, The Tale of Joan of Arc, quoted in Nadia Margolis, “The Mission of Joan of Arc,” in
Medieval Hagiography: An Anthology, ed. Thomas Head (New York: Routledge, 2000), p. 822. Return
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8 Froissart, Chronicles, ed. and trans. Geoffrey Brereton (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968), p. 151. Return
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9 Wat Tyler’s Rebellion, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 481. Return to text.
10 The Book of Margery Kempe, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 487. Return to text.
11 Cincius Romanus, Letter to His Most Learned Teacher Franciscus de Fiana, in Reading the Middle Ages,
p. 491. Return to text.
12 Quoted in Evelyn Welch, Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350–1500 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997),
p. 261. Return to text.
13 Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, in Reading the Middle Ages, pp. 493–94. Return to text.
14 “A Sforza Banquet Menu (1491),” in The Renaissance in Europe: An Anthology, ed. Peter Elmer, Nick
Webb, and Roberta Wood (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000), pp. 172–75. Return to text.
15 Ibid., p. 173. Return to text.
16 For an example, see Reading the Middle Ages, Plate 15, p. 252. Return to text.