I will note that I have not read/finished every source I’ve listed. This page is intended to help me track potential sources I may want to read in the future as well as give a jumping off point for those who want to learn more about the medieval period. This list will be added to in the future.
Primary Sources
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
The Rule of Saint Benedict by Saint Benedict
The Dialogue on Miracles Vol. I by Caesarius of Heisterbach
The Dialogue on Miracles Vol. II by Caesarius of Heisterbach
Bald’s Leechbook (Medicinale Anglicum)
Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum) by Bede
Chronicle of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds by Jocelin of Brakelond
Memoirs by Guibert de Nogent
The Golden Legend by Jacobus da Varagine
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England Volume 1
- Preface. Herbarium of Apuleius. Continued from Dioskorides, etc.Medicina de quadrupedibus of Sextus Placitus all from Brit. mus. ms. Cotton. Vitellius C. III. Leechdoms from fly leaves of mss. Charms (in part)
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England Volume 2
- Læce boc: Leech book, from Brit. mus. ms. Reg. 12. D. XVII. Glossary. Index of propernames.
Leechdoms, wortcunning, and starcraft of early England Volume 3
- Recipes, from Brit. mus. Harl. 585. Of schools of medicine, Harl. ms. 6258. Prognostics. Starcraft. Charms. Durham glossary of names of plants. Saxon names of plants. Glossary. Index.Names of persons. Historical fragments
Secondary Sources
Books
Life in the Medieval Cloister by Julie Kerr
The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300 by Gillian Polack and Katrin Kania
Magic in the Middle Ages by Richard Kieckhefer
Demons in the Middle Ages by Juanita Feros Ruys
Better Than The Sons of Kings: Boys and Monks in the Early Middle Ages by Patricia A. Quinn
Monks & Nuns, Saints & Outcasts edited by Sharon Farmer and Barbara H. Rosenwein
Angelic Monks and Earthly Men by Ludo J.R. Milis
Medieval Monasticism by C.H. Lawrence
The Age of the Cloister: The Story of Monastic Life in the Middle Ages by Christopher Brooke
Papers/Theses
Climbing Ladders: Childhood and Monastic Formation in England, c.950-1200 by Steven George Hodgson
Taking their place: Benedictine child oblates at eleventh-century Canterbury Cathedral priory by Rebecca King Cerling