Notes
1 The Edict of Milan, 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. 3. Return to text.
2 A Donatist Sermon, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 11. Return to text.
3 The Nicene Creed, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 13. Return to text.
4 The Confessions of Saint Augustine 8.4, trans. Rex Warner (New York: Mentor, 1963), p. 166. Return to
text.
5 Quoted in W.H.C. Frend, The Rise of the Monophysite Movement: Chapters in the History of the Church
in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972), p. xii. Return to text.
6 Augustine, The City of God, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 17. Return to text.
7 Jerome, Letter 24 (To Marcella), in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 27. Return to text.
8 Athanasius, Life of St. Antony of Egypt, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 34. Return to text.
9 See, for example, the “Reliquary Locket,” in Reading the Middle Ages, color plate 3, p. 234. Return to
text.
10 Charles Christopher Mierow, trans., The Gothic History of Jordanes (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University
Press, 1915), pp. 88–89. Return to text.
11 Cassiodorus, Variae (State Papers), in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 47. Return to text.
12 Gregory of Tours, The Miracles of the Bishop Saint Martin, trans. Raymond Van Dam, in Saints and
Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press 1993), p. 210. Return
to text.
13 Venantius Fortunatus, quoted in Georges Duby, The Early Growth of the European Economy: Warriors
and Peasants from the Seventh to the Twelfth Century (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974), p.
58, spelling and punctuation slightly modified. Return to text.
14 The Benedictine Rule, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 21. Return to text.
15 Gregory the Great, “The Life and Miracles of Saint Benedict,” in Mary-Ann Stouck, ed., Medieval
Saints: A Reader (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), p. 177. Return to text.
16 Baudonivia, The Life of St. Radegund, in Reading the Middle Ages, p. 45. Return to text.