Text Category: Latin, Historical, and Ecclesiastical Texts

Dark Ages Historical Texts

Late Antiquity Latin	English Translation
Sidonius Apollinaris ad Riothamus (c. 460 CE)	Sidonius Apollinaris to Riothamus
Jordanes - De Origine Actibusque Gothorum (551 CE)	Jordanes' Gothic History: On Riothamus
Chronica Gallica (452 CE)	The Chronicle of Gaul
Chronica Gallica (511 CE)	The Chronicle of Gaul
Gregorii Turonensis: Libri historiarum (ca. 594 CE)	Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks: selections
St. Gildas (ca. 540 CE)
De Excidio Britanniae	The Conquest of Britain
Lorica Gildae	The Lorica of Gildas
Gildas de Paenitentia	The Penitential of Gildas
Epistolarum Gildae Deperditarum Fragmenta	The Lost Letters of Gildas
Vita Gildae auctore Caradoco Lancarbanensi	Caradoc of Llancarfan's Life of Gildas
Vita Gildae auctore Monacho Ruiensi	The Monk of Ruys' Life of Gildas
Isadore of Seville
Etymologae IX	Etymologies, book IX
Venerable Bede (died 735 CE)
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum	Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Historia Abbatum	History of the Abbots
Dicuil
De prima syllaba prologus metricus
De prima syllaba sermo prosus
Liber de astronomia (Compotus)
Liber de mensura orbis terrae
Uersus in codicem Partitionum Prisciani

Nennian Materials and Harleian MS 3859

Nemnius: Alphabeta	Nennius' Alphabet
Nemnius: Historia Brittonum	Nennius' History of the Britons
Nemnius: Mirabila	Nennius' "The Wonders of Britain"
Annales Cambriae	The Welsh Annals
Annales Cambriae: ab Ithel version	The Welsh Annals
Harleian MS 3859: The Genealogies	Harleian MS 3859: The Genealogies

High Medieval Historical Texts

High Medieval Historical/Pseudohistorical Texts

Legenda Sancti Goeznovii	The Legend of St. Goeznovius (c. 1019)
MS Bern Bürgerbibliothek Codex 178 Chronicle	MS Bern Bürgerbibliothek Codex 178 Chronicle (9th C?)
Helindanus of Froidmont's Description of the Grail	Helindanus of Froidmont's Description of the Grail (ca. 1202)
Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum	William of Malmesbury: The Chronicle of the Kings of England (d.1143)

Fictions

Geoffrey of Monmouth (ca. 1130)
Prophetia Merlini	The Prophecy of Merlin (originally a seperate work)
Historia Regum Britanniae	The History of the Kings of Britain
Vita Merlini	The Life of Merlin
Giraldus Cambrensis (Gerald of Wales) (ca. 1170s?)
Topographia Hibernica & Expugnatio Hibernica	The Topography of Ireland
Descriptio Kambriæ	The Description of Wales
Itinerarium Kambriæ	The Itinerary of Baldwin In Wales
De invectionibus, lib. IV
De menevensi ecclesia dialogus	Dialogues on St. David's
Vita S. David	The Life of St. David
Vita S. Remigii	The Life of St. Remigius
Vita S. Hugonis	The Life of St. Hugo
Speculum Ecclesiæ	Mirror of the Church
Excerpt: Liber de Principis Instructione	The Tomb of King Arthur (from two seperate works)
Willam Camden (1607)
Britannia	The Geography of the British Isles

Walter Map: The Courtier's Trifles
	King Herla and the Wild Hunt
	Elias the Hermit
	King Cadoc
	Of the Senseless Devotion of Welshmen
	On Strange Apparitions
	Sir Gado
Etienne of Rouen (1168)
Draco Normannicus
Andreas Capellanus (1184-5)
De Amore	The Art of Courtly Love (excerpts)
Anonymous
	St. Kentigern and Lailoken
Meldred et Lailoken	King Meldred and Lailoken
Historia Meriadoci (1280)	The History of Meriadoc
De Ortu Walwanii (1280)	The Rise of Gawain
Narratio de Arthuro rege Britanniae et rege Gorlagon lycanthropo	Arthur and Gorlagon (1300)