Reading Hall of the Third Millennium Library

 

SOURCES OF HISTORY

 

The life of Saint Columba (Columb-Kille) A.D. 521-597 : founder of the monastery of Iona and first Christian missionary to the pagan tribes of North Britain
The life of Saint Boniface - Willibald, of Mainz, 8th cent

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea : travel and trade in the Indian Ocean

Diodorus Siculus .-The Library of History
Polybius: The Histories
The Historia Augusta
TACITUS : THE HISTORIES
Justin, Cornelius Nepos, and Eutropius
Herodian of Antioch, History of the Roman Empire
History of the Langobards
The Chronicles of Froissart
The Life of St. Eligius
The Táríkh-i-Jadíd, or, New history of Mírzá 'Alí Muhammad, the Báb
The historical works of Giraldus Cambrensis containing the Topography of Ireland, and the History of the conquest of Ireland - Giraldus, Cambrensis, 1146?-1223?
Roger of Wendover's Flowers of history, Comprising the history of England from the descent of the Saxons to A.D. 1235; formerly ascribed to Matthew Paris
Social Germany in Luther's time : being the memoirs of Bartholomew Sastrow

The journal of John Jourdain, 1608-1617, describing his experiences in Arabia, India, and the Malay archipelago

The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
The library of the Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society