Over the past couple of years, I’ve been putting up draft translations of early medieval texts online, mostly produced in support of teaching.
Here’s an index (not including very short partial translations and excerpts), in case these translations are useful for anyone. I’ll update this page as and when I put fresh material online. These aren’t polished pieces of work, so please do let me know if you have comments or suggestions, or spot any errors. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
804: the Rizana placitum
835: Florus of Lyon’s On the Appointment of bishops
840?: the Capitulare in pago cenomannico datum
c. 850: the Apparition of St Vaast
852: Hincmar’s first episcopal capitulary (on the Hincmar.blogspot)
856: Judith ordo (and 866 Ermentrude ordo), by Hincmar
858: the Quierzy letter to Louis the German
c. 860? Ordeal of cold water
862: The Aachen Council of 862
862: Embassy of Bishop Altfrid to King Charles the Bald
863: A charter by Lothar II mentioning Waldrada
c. 863: The will of Eberhard and Gisela
864: Bishop Adventius of Metz writes to Pope Nicholas I (on the Hincmar blogspot)
867: Ratramnus of Corbie’s Contra Graecorum opposita (extract)
867: Bishop Adventius of Metz’s letter about the Vikings
871: Letter of Louis II to Basil I
876: De noviliaco villa/About the estate of Neuilly, by Hincmar
877: the Capitulary of Quierzy
893: Hatto of Verdun’s Memoriale
c.900: a Carolingian sermon on the Vikings
1043: Abbot Siegfried of Gorze’s letter about incest and cultural change
c. 1050: A treatise on simony
1059: Pope Nicholas II’s decree on simony
c.1090: the visit of Joseph the Englishman to Constantinople