Medieval/Renaissance - 321 Books

Complete Table of contents:
Byzantine Empire
Edward Gibbon
Fall of the Roman Empire
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Theodor Mommsen
History of Rome translated by William Purdie Dickson
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Roemische Geschichte (History of Rome, in German)
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 8 (6-7 not yet available)
Institutes of Justinian, translated by J.B. Moyle
Alexandria and Her Schools by Charles Kingsley
The Secret History of the Court of Justinian by Procopius
Arab/Islam
Mahomet: Founder of Islam by G.M. Daycott
The Koran translated from the Arabic by J.M. Rodwell
The Qu'ran or Koran translated from the Arabic by E.H. Palmer (volumes 6 an 9 from the Sacred Books of the East)
The Koran translated by George Sale
Mohammedanism: Lectures on Its Origin, Its Religious and Political Growth, and Its Present by Snouck Hurgronje, 1916
Christopher Marlowe
Tamburlaine the Great, part 1 (play)
Tamburlaine the Great, part 2 (play)
Richard Burton
Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights, complete) translated by Burton
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Volume 5
Volume 6
Volume 7
Volume 8
Volume 9
Volume 10
Supplement Volume1
Supplement Volume 2
Supplement Volume 3
Supplement Volume 4
Supplement Volume 5
Supplement Volume 6
John Payne
The Thousand Nights and One Night, translated by John Payne (first 4 of 9 volumes)
Volume 1
Volume 2
Volume 3
Volume 4
Alladdin and the Enchanted Lamp translated by John Payne
Tales from the Arabic by John Payne
Arabian Nights translated by anonymous (1813), volume 1 of 2
Arabian Nights translated by Jonathan Scott (1890)
The Story of Hassan of Baghdad by James Flecker
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Moorish Literature
Persian Literature
Literature of Arabia
Israel/Palestine/Judaism
Hebraic Literature: translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala
Tales and Maxims from the Midrashby Rev. Samuel Rapaport
Kabbala Denudat: The Kabbalah Unveiled, containing the following Books of the Zohar: The Book of Concealed Mystery, The Greater Holy Assembly, and The Lesser Holy Assembly, translated by S.L. MacGregor Mathers
Kabbalah -- Sephir Yetzirah, translated by W.W. Westcott (short)
The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg, translated from German by Henrietta Szold
Volume 1
Volume 2
The Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides translated by M. Friedlander
Medieval Hebrew, featuring the Midrash and medieval collections of Jewish Biblical lore and legend
Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirque Aboth) translated by Charles Taylor
Sayings of the Jewish Fathers (Pirke Abot) translated by Joseph Gorfinkle
part 1
part 2
The Itinerary of Genjamin of Tudela (12th century), translated by Marcus Adler
Catholic Church
History of the Catholic Church by James MacCaffrey
Volume 1
Volume 2
The Church and the Empire (The Church Universal, volume 4): being an outline of the history of the church 1003 to 1304 by D.J. Medley
Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus
Female Scripture Biography by Francis Augustus Cox
volume 1
volume 2
For Greater Things: The story of Saint Stanislaus Kostka by William T. Kane, S.J.
The Hermits by Charles Kingsley
Imitation of Christ
The Legends of Saint Patrick by Aubrey de Vere
Letters of Catherine Benincasa (Saint Catherine of Siena)
Life and Legends of St. Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe
The Life of St. Mochuda of Lismore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus by St. Teresa
Life of St. Frances of Rome by Lady Georgiana Fullerton
The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
Saint Augustin by Louis Bertrand
St. Augustine's Confessions
Armenia
Armenian Literature, translated by Robert Arnot, 1904
England
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890) translated by James Ingram
Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga, Kraka, and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar Olson
The Elene of Cynewulf, translated by Jucius Holt
Codex JuniusThis file contains translations from the Anglo-Saxon of the following works: "Genesis A", "Genesis B", "Exodus", "Daniel", and "Christ and Satan". All are works found in the manuscript of Anglo-Saxon verse known as "Junius 11." These works were originally written in Anglo-Saxon, sometime between the 7th and 10th Centuries A.D. Although sometimes ascribed to the poet Caedmon (fl. late 7th Century), it is generally thought that these poems do not represent the work of one single poet.
Morien Arthurian Romances edited by Jessie Weston
From Ritual to Romance by Jesse Weston
Arthurian Chronicle: Roman de Brut by Wave, translated by Eugene Mason
The Age of Chivalry: King Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Bullfinch
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
English Travelers of the Renaissance by Clare Howard, 1914
Andreas: the Legend of St. Andrew, translated by Robert Root
Four Arthurian Romances ("Erec et Enide", "Cliges", "Yvain", and "Lancelot") by Chretien DeTroyes
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Cameos from English History from Rollo to Edward II by Charlotte Yonge, 1873
A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens
England Under the Tudors by Arthur Innes
History Of The Britons (Historia Brittonum) c. 800 AD, by Nennius, Translated by J. A. Giles
The History of England from the Norman Conquest to the Death of John (1066-1216) by George Adams
The History of England by A.F. Pollard
The History of England, volume 1, by David Hume
Froude's History of England by Charles Kingsley
The Forest of Vazon: a Guernsey Legned of the 8th Century
Magna Carta (text of the document)
Old English Physiologus, translated by James Pitman
William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman
The History of King Richard the Thirde (unfinished) by Thomas More
F. Marion Crawford
Via Crucis, A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion Crawford
Charlotte Yonge
The Lances of Lynwood
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The White Company
G.A. Henty
A March on London
Saint George for England
The Dragon and the Raven: or the Days of King Alfred
The Knight of the White Cross
At Agincourt
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Black Arrow: a Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rev. A.D. Crake
Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Ascendune
Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Ascendune
The Rival Heirs or the Third and Last Chronicle of Ascendune
Charles Whistler
Havelock the Dane: A Legend of Old Grimsby and Lincoln
A Thane of Wessex
Wulflric the Wapon Thane: a Story of the Danish Conquest of East Anglia
A Prince of Cornwall
A King's Comrade
King Alfred's Vikings
William Shakespeare's British history plays
Hamlet
Henry IV Part 1
Henry IV Part 2
Henry V
Henry VI Part 1
Henry VI Part 2
Henry VI Part 3
Richard II
Richard III
King John
King Lear
Macbeth
King Edward III
Reference Books and Collections
A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from 1150 to 1580 by A.L. Mayhew and Walter Skeat
England's Antiphon (British religious poetry) by George MacDonald
Collection of Old English Plays edited by A.H. Bullen (1882-1889)
Volume 1 of 4 (as a single document)
The Tragedy of Nero
The Mayde's Metamorphosis
The Martyr'd Souldier
The Noble Souldier
Volume 2 of 4 (as a single document)
Dick of Devonshire
The Lady Mother
The Tragedy of Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt
Captian Underwit
Volume 3 of 4 (as a single document)
Sir Gyles Goosecappe
The Wisdome of Dr. Dodypoll
The Distracted Emperor
The Tyall of Chevalry
Select Colleciton of Old EnglishPlays, originally published by Robert Dodsley 1744, edited by W. Carew Hazlitt (1874-76)
Volume 1 (as a single document)
Interlude of the Four Elements
Calisto and Melibaa
Everyman: a Moral Play
Hickscorner
The Parndoner and the Friar
The World and the Child
God's Promises
The Four P.P.
A New Interlude called Thersites
Volume 2 (as a single document)
The Interlude of Youth
Lusty Juventus
Jack Juggler
A Pretty Interlude called Nice Wanton
The History of Jacob and Esau
The Disobedient Child
The Marriage of Wit and Science
Volume 6 (as a single document)
The Conflict of Conscience
The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
The Three Ladies of London
The Three Ladies and Three Lords of London
A Knack to Know a Knave
Volume 7 (as a single document)
Tancred and Gismunda
The Wounds of Civil War
Mucedorus
The Two Angry Women of ABinton
Look About You
Volume 8 (as a single document)
The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington
The Death of Robert Eal of Huntington
Contention between Liberality and Prodigality
Grim the Collier of Croydon
Volume 9 (as a single document)
How a Man May Choose a Good Wife from a Bad
The Return from Parnassus
Wily Beguiled
Lingua
The Miseries of Enforced Marriage
Anonymous
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (c. 1360)
Gawayne and the Green Knight retold by Charlton Miner Lewis
Richard de Bury (1287-1345)
Philobiblion, the Love of Books
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
The Canterbury Tales
The Court of Love
The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
The Assembly of Fowls
The Flower and the Leaf
The House of Fame
Troilus and Cressida
Chaucer's Dream
The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
Chaucer's A.B.C.
Miscellaneous Poems
About Chaucer
Chaucer's Official Life by Jame Root Hulbert
Life of Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward
John Gower (1330-1408)
Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins
Sir John Mandeville
Travels of Sir John Mandeville (c. 1366)
William Caxton (1422-1491)
The Curial. (translator, original by Alain Chartier, in French)
Caxton's Book of Curtesye (1477-1478)
Caxton's Game and Playe of Chesse, 1474
Europe in General
The Story of Alchemy and the Beginnings of Chemistry by M.M. Pattison Muir
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 5 -- The Middle Ages
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 6 -- Renaissance and Reformation
The Coming of the Friars [about Medieval times] by Augustus Jessop
Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times by Alfred Biese
An Essay on Medieval Economic Teaching by George O'Brien
Famous Men of the Middle Ages by John Haaren and A.B. Poland
The Fifteen Decisive Battles of The World From Marathon to Waterloo, by Sir Edward Creasy
Great Events by Famous Historians, volume 5 From Charlemagne to Frederick Barbarossa, 843-1161
Great Events by Famous Historians, volume 8, The Later Renaissance, 1438-1516
Legends of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber
National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb
Medieval Europe by H.W.C. Davis
Medieval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele
The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes (551)
Readings in the History of Education: Mediaeval Universities by Arhtur Norton
Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by William and Porter McClintock
Who Was Who: 5000 BC to 1914 edited by Irwin Gordon
The Renaissance by Walter Pater
The World's Greatest Books, volume 11, Ancient History Medieval History
Ireland
Early Bardic Literature of Ireland by Stanish O'Grady
Heroic Romances of Ireland by A.H. Leahy
Life of St. Declan of Ardmore, translated from the Irish by Rev. P. Power
A Popular History of Ireland by Thomas D'Arcy McGee
The Kilkartan Poetry Book, prose translation from the Irish by Lady Gregory
Celtic Literature
The Coming of Cuculain by Standish O'Grady
The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge, translated by L. Winnnfred Faraday
Scotland
Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland by James MacPherson (includes "Ossian")
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), historical novels, many set in Medieval and Renaissance times
The Abbot (sequel to The Monastery)
The Antiquary
The Black Dwarf
The Bride of Lammermoor
The Betrothed
Chronicles of the Canongate
Death of the Laird's Jock (short story)
The Fair Maid of Perth
Fortunes of Nigel
Guy Mannering
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Ivanhoe
Kenilworth
The Lady of the Lake
The Legend of Montrose
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror (short story)
Marmion: a Tale of Floddin Field
The Monastery
Old Mortality
Peveril of the Peak
Quentin Durward
Redgauntlet
Rob Roy
The Surgeon's Daughter
The Talisman
The Tapestried Chamber (short story)
Wandering Willie's Tale (short story)
Waverly
Waverly Novels volume 12 (of 12)
Count Robert of Paris
Castle Dangerous
My Aunt Marget's Mirror
Woodstock or the Cavalier
The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter
In Freedom's Cause by G.A. Henty
Wales
Mabinogion
Description of Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
Itinerary of Baldwin in Wales by Giraldus Cambrensis
Short History of Wales by Owen M. Edwards
Welsh Fairy Tales and Other Stories edited by P.H. Emerson
An Enquiry into the Truth of the Tradition Concerning the Discovery of America by Prince MAdog ab Owen Gwynedd about the year 1170 by John Williams (1791)
Denmark
The Danish History, Books I-IX by Saxo Grammaticus ("Saxo the Learned") fl. Late 12th - Early 13th Century A.D.
Norway/Sweden/Iceland
The Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle
Heimskringla or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturlson (c.1179-1241)
Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, anonymous, 13th century, in English
Njal's Saga, anonymous, 13th century, in English
Saga of Grettir the Strong, anonymous, 14th century, in English
Volsunga Saga, with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, anonymous, 13th century, in English
Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webb Dasent
The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga, Kraka, and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar Olson
Finland
Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, in English, translated by John Crawford
Netherlands
Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)
The Praise of Folly, translated by John Wilson, 1668
Selections from Erasmus edited by P.S. Allen
Dialogue
Colloquies volume 1
Merry Dialogue
Two Dyaloges
France
Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with Other Poems, translated to English by Andrew Lang includes:
Charles d'Orlean
Francois Villon
Joachim du Bellay
Remy Belleau
Pierre Ronsard
Jacques Tahureau
Jean Passerat
also, 19th century poets Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Gerard de Nerval, and Henri Murger
Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
Erec et Enide
Cliges
Yvain
Lancelot
High History of the Holy Graal, anonymous continuation of an unfinished romance by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
Le Romanz de l'estoire dou Graal by Robert de Boron
with accents
without accents
Poesies du Troubadour Peire Raimon de Toulouse, old French and modern French without accents, edited by Joseph Anglade
The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bullfinch
The Romance of Tristan and Iseult retold by J. Beier and translated by H. Belloc
Historia Calamitatum, The Story of My Misfortunes by Peter Abelard (1079-1142), translated by Henry Bellows
Abelard by Charles le Remusat, volume 2
From the Lays of Marie de France, translated by Eugene Mason
Francois Rabelais (1483-1553), Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel, translated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Book 4
Book 5
In Troubadour Land: a Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. Baring-Gould
The Troubadours by Rev. H.J. Chaytor, 1912
Chronicle of the Fourth Crusade by Geoffrey de Villehardouin
Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance by Paul Lacroix
Joan of Arc
Jeanne d'Arc: Her Life and Death by Mrs. Oliphant
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain
Volume 1
Volume 2
Aucassin and Nicolete by Andrew Lang (short story)
Old French Romances translated by William Morris
Oeuvres Completes de Francois Villon
The Sweet and Touchingh Tale of Fleur and Blanchefleur
Charles the Bold, Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Ruth Putnam
Germany
Germany from the Earliest Period, volume 4, by Wolfgang Menzel
The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin
Nibelungenlied
translated by George Henry Needler
translator unknown
in German, translated to modern German by Karl Simrock
Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages (1 book)
Albrecht Durer's Records [letters/memoirs] of Journeys to Venice and the Low Countries
Albert Durer by T. Sturge Moore
Italy
The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (480-524), translated by H. R. James
Autobiography of Benevenuto Cellini
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt
The Communes of Lombardy from the Sixth to the Tenth Century by William Klapp Williams, 1891
Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)
Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
Renaissance in Italy, by John Addington Symonds
Volume 1 -- The Age of the Despots
Volume 3 -- The Fine Arts
The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldessar Castilio, translated to English by Sir Thomas Hoby
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
In Italian, with accents La Divina Commedia
In Italian without accents La Divina Commedia
In English translation:
translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy
translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
translated by Charles Eliot Norton
Hell
Purgatory
Paradise
Il Convito, The Banquet, tanslated by Elizabeth Sayer, 1887
Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)
In Italian with accents Orlando Furioso
In Italian without accents, Orlando Furioso
In English translation: Orlando Furioso
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1350)
The Decameron, Volume 1, translated by J. M. Rigg
La Fiammetta, translated by James C. Brogan, 1907
Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Volume 1
Volume 2
Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini
The History of Florence by Niccolo Machiavelli
Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
Celebrated Crimes by Alexandre Dumas -- 18 books in a single file, in English
The Borgias
The Cenci
Massacres of the South
Mary Stuart
Karl-Ludwig Sand
Urbain Grandier
Nisida
Desrues
La Constantin
Joan of Naples
The Man in the Iron Mask (an essay, reflecting on the history behind the novel)
Martin Guerre (source of the movies "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "Somersby")
Ali Pacha
The Countess of Saint Geran
Murat
The Marquise de Brinvilliers
Vaninka
The Marquise de Ganges
Poland
The Knights of the Cross or Krzyzacy, by Henryk Sienkiewicz, translated by Samuel Binion
Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter
Spain
The Lay of the Cid, in English, translated by R. Selden and Leonard Bacon
Switzerland
Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Theodore Martin
Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, another translation
Far East
A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms, Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hien of his Travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in Search of the Buddhist Books of Discipline
The Travels of Marco Polo (the complete Yule-Cordier Editioni), volume 1 of 2, 1920
The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan, by H. G. Keene
The Religion of the Samurai by Kaiten Nukariya
Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe