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

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