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454 THE MEDIEVAL HISTORY OF EUROPE EXERCISES AND READINGS Letters of Innocent III. Thatcher and McNeal, Source Book for Medieval History, pp. 208-14, selections 114-22. Summarize the contents of each document and connect each with some paragraph of the above chapter if possible. Source Work on Varied Topics. Robinson, Readings in European History, vol. 1, pp. 348-95. The sacraments, selections 135, 136, 137, 138, 152. The clergy, selections 140, 146, 147, 148, 149. Church property, selections 141, 142, 143. The heretics, selections 144, 150, 151, 153. St. Francis, selections 154, 155, 156. Summarize and combine the information contained in the selec- tions on one of the above topics, noting, however, which statements represent hostile criticism or are otherwise apparently biased. Coulton, A Medieval Garner. Contains a great number of brief selec- tions from medieval sources illustrating the life of the clergy and to a less extent of the laity. Examples of the Interdict. Translations and Reprints of the University of Pennsylvania, vol. iv.no. 4, pp. 27-28 and 29-30. Ogg, Source Book of Medieval History, pp. 382-83. Southern France and the Religious Opposition. Munro and Sellery, Medieval Civilization, pp. 432-57. The Medieval Inquisition. Any chapter in Lea, History of the Inquisition in the Middle Ages, or in Vacandard, The Inquisition. St. Francis. Chesterton, Varied Types, pp. 59-70. Brother Leo's Mirror of Perfection. (Temple Classics.) Henderson, Historical Documents, " The Rule of St. Francis," pp. 344-49. Any chapter in Sabatier, Life of St. Francis of Assisi. The Friars. Jessopp, The Coming of the Friars. Coulton, From St. Francis to Dante (2d edition, 1907). Chapter vi, " Cloister Life." Chapter ix, "Convent Friendships." Chapter xv, "A Bishop's Conscience." The Modern Roman Catholic View. Look up an article in the Catholic Encyclopedia upon some one of the topics discussed in this chapter.