A completely revised and updated edition of this standard anthology of medieval Latin, this work has been provided with 14 new selections, doubling the coverage of women writers, expanding a quarter of the original selections, and including a substantive grammatical introduction. The help place the selcetions within their wider, historical, social and political contexts, extensive introductory essays have been provided for each of the anthology's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographical paragraphs have been expanded. The selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toeards students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.