Medieval/Renaissance

This CD contains the full text of 474 books -- works of history, literature, religion, and philosophy. It includes works written in and about Medieval times and the Renaissance (roughly 476 to 1500).

Intended for use with PCs (Windows or Linux) and recent Macs (OS X), all but half a dozen of these books are in plain-text format, organized for easy access. The others are art books presented in Acrobat (.pdf) format in order to show the illustrations.

You can see the complete table of contents below. Please use the Find function in your browser (under Edit) to look for a specific author or book.

Table of contents:

Europe in General

Architectural Illustration (html files, with illustrations)

Jan. 1895

Feb. 1895

March 1895

April 1895

May 1895

June 1895

July 1895

August 1895

Oct. 1895

Nov. 1895

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

Bibliomania in the Middle Ages by F. Somner Merryweather

Catalogue of Early printed Books (in the Library of Yale University)

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

Epic and Romance, Essays on Medieval Literature by W.P. Ker

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

The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory by George Saintsbury

Great Artists by Jennie Ellis Keysor (includes Raphael, Murillo, Rubens, Durer)

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

Heroes of Modern Europe by Alice Birkhead

A History of Science, volume 2, by Henry Smith Williams

Illuminated Manuscripts by John Bradley

Iron Making in Olden Times by H.G. Nicholls

Legends of the Middle Ages by H.A. Guerber

Libraries in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods by J.W. Clark

Life in the Medieval Universtiy by Robert s. Raitt

Medieval Europe by H.W.C. Davis

Medieval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Robert Steele

Mediaeval Socialism by Bede Jarrett

Myths and Legends of All Nations, edited by Logan Marshall

National Epics by Kate Milner Rabb

Old-Time Makers of Medicine by James J. Walsh

On the Antiquity of the Chemical Art by James MacTear

The Origin and Deeds of the Goths by Jordanes (551)

Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine by James Sands Elliott

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 Witch-Cult in Western Europe by Margaret Alice Murray

The Renaissance by Walter Pater

Wine, Women, and Song -- Mediaeval Latin Student's Songs translated by John Addington Symonds

The World's Greatest Books, volume 11, Ancient History Medieval History

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
• Procopius
• The History of the Wars
• Books 1 and 2
• Books 3 and 4
• Books 5 and 6
• 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
• Faith of Islam by Edward Sell, 1880
• Boswell of Baghdad by E.V. Lucas,1917 -- about Ibn Khallikan (1211-1282)
• A Critical Exposition of the Popular Jihad by Mooulavi Gheragh Ali
• Arabic Authors, a Manual of Arabian History and Literature by F.F. Arbuthnot, 1870
• 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 Arabian Nights Entertainments, selected and edited by Andrew Lang
• The Arabian Nights Entertainments, Windemere Series, 1914
• The Arabian Nights edited by kate Doublas Wiggin and Nora A. Smith
• The Improvement of Human Reason, Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Ibn Tufail (1105-1185)
• The Story of Hassan of Baghdad by James Flecker
• The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, translated by Edward Fitzgerald, first edition and fifth edition
• 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

The Ancient Church by W.D. Killer

Thomas Aquinas

On Prayer and the Compemplative Life

Summa Theologica

complete, as an html file, with links to make it easier to navigate through this huge work

as separate parts, in plain text form

Part 1

Part 2 Part 1

Part 2 Part 2

Part 3

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
• Thomas a Kempis
• The Chronicles of the Canons Regular of Mount St. Agnes
• 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
• Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints by Alban Butler
• The Spirit of Saint Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
• Saint Augustin by Louis Bertrand
• St. Augustine's Confessions

North and South America

• Day Symbols of the Maya Year by Cyrus Thomas

Armenia

• Armenian Literature, translated by Robert Arnot, 1904

England

• The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (c. 890) translated by James Ingram
• Anglo-Saxon Britain by Grant Allen
• Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle, 1884
• The Assemble of Goddes by John Lydgate, 1500
• The Departing Soul's Address to the Body, a fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem Discovered Among the Archives of Worcester Cathedral by Sir Thomas Phillipps, translated by S.W. Singer
• Arthur -- a short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the fifteenth Cenutry by Frederick J. Furnivall
• Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
• Beowulf translated by Lesslie Hall
• The Tale of Beowulf translated by William Morris and A.J. Wyatt
• The Book of Quinte Essence or The Fifth Being (c. 1460-1470) edited by Frederick Furnival
• 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 Jessie Weston
• Arthurian Chronicle: Roman de Brut by Wave, translated by Eugene Mason
• Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Age of Chivalry: King Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Bullfinch
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
• Popular Ballads of the Olden Time, first series: Ballads of Romance and Chivalry, edited by Frank Sidgwick
• 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
• Gilbertus Anglicus: Medicine inthe Thirteenth Century by Henry Handerson, 1918
• King Alfred of England by Jacob Abbott, 1849
• Henry of Monmouth or Memoirs of Henry V by J. Endell Tyler, 1838
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Henry VIII by A.F. Pollard, 1919
• Historic Doubts of the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole, 1768
• 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 1216-1377 by T.F. Tout
• The History of England by A.F. Pollard
• The History of England, volume 1, by David Hume
• History of the English People by John Richard Breen
• volume 1449-1216
• volume 2 1216-1400
• volume 3 1393-1540
• Raphael Holinshed
• Historie of England
• volume 6
• volume 7
• volume 8
• Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland
• part 1 of 12
• part 2
• part 3
• part 4
• part 5
• part 6
• A Description of Elizabethan England written by William Harrison for the Holinshed Chronicles
• Froude's History of England, an essay by Charles Kingsley
• The Forest of Vazon: a Guernsey Legned of the 8th Century
• Flag and Fleet, How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas by William Wood
• Literary History of the English People, from the origins to the Renaissance by J.J. Jusserand
• Magna Carta (text of the document, in English translation)
• Legend Land, a collection of old tales told in western parts of Britain, rtold by Lyonesse
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Ely Cathedral
• A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral by George S. Phillips
• The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great Smithfield by George Worley
• The Disguising at Hertford, 1427 by John Lydgate (1370-1449)
• Old English Physiologus, translated by James Pitman
• An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland 500-1707 by Robert Rait, 1901
• A Short History of English Agriculture by W.H.R. Curtler, 1909
• William the Conqueror by E.A. Freeman
• The History of King Richard the Thirde (unfinished) by Thomas More
• The Palace of Pleasure -- Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels, done into Englilsh by William Painter
• A Righte Merrie Christmasse by John Ashton
• Best of the World's Classics, edited by Henry Cabot Lodge, volume 3
• Florence Barclay
• The White Ladies of Worcester
• Rev. A.D. Crake
• Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Ascendune
• Alfgar the Dane or the Second Chronicle of Ascendune
• The House of Walderne, a tale of the cloister and the forest int he days of the Baron's Wars
• The Rival Heirs or the Third and Last Chronicle of Ascendune
• F. Marion Crawford
• Via Crucis, A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion Crawford
• Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The White Company
• Evertt Evelyn-Green
• In the Wars of the Roses
• George Manville Fenn
• The King's Sons
• 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
• W.H.G. Kingston
• The Last Look, a Tale of the Spanish Inquisition
• The Seven Champions of Christendom
• Christopher Marlowe
• Edward the Second
• Stephen Pryer
• Rowena and Harold
• 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
• Robert Louis Stevenson
• The Black Arrow: a Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 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
• King Olaf's Kingsman, a story of the last Saxon struggle against the Danes
• Charlotte Yonge
• The Armourers' Prentices
• The Lances of Lynwood
• 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 (volume 4 of complete works), second Oxford edtion, 1900, Middle English with extensive notes
• 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

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
• The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge, "The Cualnge Cattle Raid" translated by Joseph Dunn

Scotland

• The Days of Bruce by Grace Aguilar
• Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland by James MacPherson (includes "Ossian")
• The Norwegian Account of Haco's Expedition Against Scotland, translated by James Johnstone
• An Outline of the Relations Between England and Scotland 500-1707 by robert Rait, 1901
• Popular Ballads of the Olden Time, third series: Ballads of the Scottish Tradition and Romance, edited by Frank Sidgwick
• S.R. Crocket
• The Black Douglas (historical novel, set around 1439)
• 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 translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, edition of 1848
• Mabinogion translated by Lady Charlotte Guest, edition of 1902
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• 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
• Welsh Folk Lore collected by Rev. Elias Owen
• 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
• Eric the Red's Saga, translated by Rev. J. Sephton
• Heimskringla or The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturlson (c.1179-1241)
• The Laxdaela Saga, translated by Muriel Press
• Life and Death of Cormac the Skald, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• Njal's Saga, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• Northland Heroes by Florence Holbrook
• Popular Tales from the Norse by Sir George Webb Dasent
• The Relation of the Hrolfs Saga, Kraka, and the Bjarkarimur to Beowulf by Oscar OlsonSaga of Grettir the Strong, anonymous, 14th century, in English
• Volsunga Saga, with excerpts from the Poetic Edda, anonymous, 13th century, in English
• The Younger Edda

Finland

• Kalevala, the Finnish national epic, in English, translated by John Crawford

France

• Histoire de Fance by J. Michelet, 1876, in French
• volume 3 1200-1305
• volume 4 1305-1364
• Proces des Templiers by M. Michelet, in French
• volume 1
• volume 2
• 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
• The Chronicles of Froissart by Jean Froissart, translated by Lord Berniers, edited by G.C. Macaulay
• The Campaign of Crecy
• The Battle of Poiteirs
• Wat Tyler's Rebellion
• The Battle of Otterburn
• Compte de l'Oeuvre de la Cathedrale de Chartres en 1415-1416 by L. merlet, in French
• La Danse Macabre, in French
• La Danse Macabre des Femmes, in French
• 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
• Le Roman de la Rose by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, in French
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
• Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bullfinch
• The Romance of Tristan and Iseult retold by J. Bedier 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
• The Palace of Pleasure -- Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels, done into Englilsh by William Painter
• 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
• Historical Tales, the Romance of Reality, Volume 6 France by Charles Morris
• Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre (1492-1549)
• Heptameron (in French)
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• Memoirs (in English)

Germany

• Germany from the Earliest Period, volume 4, by Wolfgang Menzel
• Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence (1874-1955), 1915
• The Story of Siegfried by James Baldwin
• Nibelungenlied
• translated by George Henry Needler
• translator unknown
• in German, translated to modern German by Karl Simrock
• Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland
• 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

• Theodoric the Goth by Thomas Hodgkin
• La Battaglia di Benevento -- Storia del Secolo XIII (in Italian) by F.d. Guerrazzi
• The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius (480-524)
• in English translated by H. R. James
• in Latin
• Amerigo Vespucci by Frederick Ober
• 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
• The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance by Bernhard Berenson, 1896
• Giordano Bruno by Walter Pater (short)
• The Heroic Enthusiasts by Giordano Bruno, translated by L. Williams
• Knights of the Arts: Stories of the Italian Painters by Amy Steedman
• Lives of the Painters, Sculptors, adn Architects by Giorio Vasari
• Renaissance in Italy,  by John Addington Symonds
• Volume 1 -- The Age of the Despots
• The Catholic Reaction
• Volume 3 -- The Fine Arts
• The Book of the Courtier by Count Baldessar Castilio [AKA Castiglione], 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
• about Dante
• Dante- The Central man of All the World by John Slattery, 1920
• 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, translated by J. M. Rigg
• volume 1
• volume 2
• La Fiammetta, translated by James C. Brogan, 1907
• Autobiography by Benvenuto Cellini
• The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance by Berhnhard Berenson
• Correggio by Estelle M. Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Donatello by Lord Balcarres, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Giorgione by Herbert Cook, 1904, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Giotto and His Works in Padua by John Ruskin
• Michelangelo
• Michelangelo by Estelle Hurll, 1900, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Michael Angelo Buonnotti by Charles Holroyd
• Raphael edited by Estelle Hurll, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Leonardo da Vinci by Maurice Brockwell, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• The Lion of St. Mark, a story of Venice in the 14th century by G.A. Henty
• Life of Cesare Borgia by Rafael Sabatini
• The Palace of Pleasure -- Elizabethan versions of Italian and French novels, done into Englilsh by William Painter
• Oeuvres Poetiques de Christine de Pisan (1364-1430), in French
• Some Forerunners of Italian Opera by W.J. Henderson
• The History of Florence by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Tragedies of the Medici by Edgcumbe Staley
• Titian
• The Earlier Work of Titian by Claude Phillips, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Later Works of Titian by Claude Phillips, html file, ILLUSTRATED
• The Stones of Venice by John Ruskin
• The Royal Pawn of Venice, a Romance of Cyprus by mrs. Lawrence Turnbull
• 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

Netherlands

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)

• Encomium Artis Medicae, in Latin
• 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
• The Age of Erasmus by P.S. Allen, 1914

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

• The Counts of Gruyere by Mrs. Reginald de Koven
• The Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant (1458-1521) volumes 1 and 2, translated by Alexander Barclay
• Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Theodore Martin
• Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller, another translation

Far East and South Pacific

• First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea by George Collingridge De Tourcey, 1906
• 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