Here are links to some primary sources for the research paper topics for History 203:


1.  Peasant life


       Excerpt from Charlemagne's capitulary of Frankfurt, 794, giving the prices of staples
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/794capit-frankfort.html

       Excerpt from a "polyptique" (an early form of economic census) by Abbot Irminon of the Abbey of St. Germain-des-Pres,
       c. 800.   The polyptique surveys the abbey's estates, and this excerpt concerns the village of  Villeneuve-St. Georges.
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/800irminon.html

       Charlemagne's capitulary "De villis"
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/carol-devillis.html

       Inventory of Charlemagne's estate at "Asnapium" (modern Annapes, just east of Lille, at the NE tip of France, near the Belgian border), c. 800
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/800Asnapium.html
 
       Excerpt from Charlemagne's capitulary of Diedenhofen, 805, on the military tax (Heribannum) payable by all freemen
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/805Herbannm.html

      Excerpt from a capitulary of Louis the Pious, c. 817, on the duties of coloni (serfs)
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/817coloni.html



2.  Viking raid


       Accounts of Viking attacks, 789 and 793
             http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~snlrc/britannia/lindisfarne/lindisfarne.html

       (If the above link will not work, here is the same text at another link:)
             http://www.uwm.edu/~carlin/earlymed.lindisfarne.html

       Excerpts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for the years 878-886
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/angsax-chron1.html

       The Battle of Maldon: poem about the defeat of an English local militia by the Vikings in 991
             Text of the poem, in a recent English translation:  http://faculty.uca.edu/~jona/texts/maldon.htm
              Translator's notes and maps of the battle site: http://faculty.uca.edu/~jona/second/malnotes.html


3.  Benedictine monk or nun

       Rule of St. Benedict
              http://www.osb.org/rb/text/toc.html#toc

       Rudolf of Fulda, Life of St. Leoba, Abbess of Bischofsheim (d. 779; Life written c. 836)
             http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/leoba.html

       Carolingian plan of the monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland
          original manuscript:   http://www.caed.kent.edu//History/Carolingian/stgall.jpg
          redrawn, with captions in English translation:  http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/shepherd/monastery_st.gall_swiss.jpg



4.  Life at Charlemagne's court

       Einhard's Life of Charlemagne
           http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/einhard.html

       Notker of St. Gall's Life of Charlemagne (883-4)
          http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/stgall-charlemagne.html

        More primary sources on Charlemagne's reign can be found in the Internet Medieval Sourcebook at:
            http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1h.html#Charlemagne