The portable medieval reader / edited, and with an introduction, by James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin.

Title on cover : 1. The world of the middle ages richly represented by a wide variety of the writings of four centureies. 2. Biography, theology, poetry, history, science, education, letters. 3. Gathered for the delight of the modern reader from a multitude of sources hitherto restricted mainly to scholars--with many new translations.