History of the Christian Church, Vol. 5: The Middle Ages, A.D. 1049–1294

§ 1. General Literature.

Sources: J. P. Migne: Patrologiae cursus completus, etc. The Latin series containing the writings of the "Fathers, Doctors, and Writers of the Latin Church from Tertullian to Innocent III.," 221 vols. Paris, 1844-1864. Indispensable. The writers of the 11th century begin with vol. 139.--Philip Labbaeus, S. J., d. 1667: Sacrosancta concilia ad regiam editionem exacta, 18 vols. Paris, 1662 sqq. Labbaeus lived to see vol. IX. in print. Completed by Gabriel Cossart. This collection has been used in places in this volume. --John D. Mansi, abp. of Lucca, d. 1769: Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio, 31 vols., Florence and Venice, 1759-1798. Extends to the Council of Florence, 1439. New facsimile ed. with continuation. Paris, 1901 sqq. Thus far 38 vols., 0-37, reaching to 1735.--L. A. Muratori, d. 1750: Rerum Italicarum scriptores, 500-1600, 25 vols. Milan, 1723-1761, with supplemental vols., Florence, 1748, 1770, Venice, 1771, in all 31 parts. Repub. and ed. by G. Carducci et V. Fiorini, Citta di Castello 1902 sqq.--Monumenta Germaniae historica, ed. by G. H. Pertz, d. 1870, and his coeditors and successors, Wattenbach, Böhmer, etc. More than 50 vols. Han., 1826 sqq. They cover the whole history of the empire and papacy.--Scriptores rerum Germanicarum for use in schools and drawn from the preceding, ed. by Pertz, 42 vols. Han., 1840-1894.--Die Geschichtschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit, ed. by Pertz, etc., in German trans, 92 vols. Berlin and Leipzig, 1849-1892.--The Rolls Series, Rerum Britannicarum medii aevi scriptores, 97 vols., London, 1858-1891, contains splendid edd. of William of Malmesbury, Roger of Wendover, Ralph of Coggeshall, Richard of Hoveden, Matthew Paris (7 vols.), Grosseteste, and other English mediaeval writers.--Bohn's Antiq. Library, 41 vols. London, 1848-1864 sqq., gives translations of M. Paris, Richard of Hoveden, etc.--J. F. Böhmer: Regesta imperii, 1198-1254. New ed. by J. Ficker and Winkelmann, Innsbruck, 1881-1894. Regesta pontificum romanorum from St. Peter to Innocent III., ed. by Jaffé, d. 1878, Berlin, 1851, pp. 951; 2d ed. by Wattenbach, Löwenthal, Kaltenbrunner, and Ewald, vol. I. Lips., 1885, from Peter to Innocent II., 64-1143; vol. II. Lips., 1888 from Coelestin II. to Innocent III., 1143-1198. --Continuation by Aug. Potthast, from Innocent III., to Benedict XI., 1198-1304, 2 vols. pp.…