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CONTENTS<br/><br/>Preface <br/>How to Read a Document <br/><br/>Part I: The Origins of Western Civilization <br/> and the Classical World <br/><br/>Creation Epics <br/> 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 b.c.) <br/> 2. The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 b.c.) <br/> 3. The Book of Genesis (ca. 10th/6th century b.c.) <br/> 4. Hesiod, Works and Days (ca. 700 b.c.) <br/>The Ancient Near East 21<br/> 5. Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century b.c.) <br/> 6. The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century b.c.) <br/> 7. The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th/6th century b.c.) <br/> 8. The Book of Isaiah (ca. 8th/6th century b.c.) <br/>Ancient and Classical Greece <br/> 9. Homer, Iliad (9th/8th century b.c.) <br/> 10. Sappho of Lesbos, Poems (ca. 600 b.c.) <br/> 11. Herodotus, History (ca. 450 b.c.) <br/> 12. Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca. 400 b.c.) <br/> 13. Xenophon, The Spartan Constitution (ca. 360 b.c.) 49<br/> 14. Plato, Apology (399 b.c.) 53<br/> 15. Plato, The Republic (ca. 327 b.c.) <br/> 16. Aristotle, Politics (4th century b.c.) <br/>The Roman World 70<br/> 17. Cicero, The Trial of Aulus Cluentius Habitus (66 b.c.) <br/> 18. Virgil, Aeneid (30/19 b.c.) <br/> 19. Ovid, The Art of Love (ca. 1 b.c.) <br/> 20. Juvenal, Satires (ca. a.d. 116) <br/> 21. Plutarch, The Life of Cato the Elder (ca. a.d. 116) <br/> 22. Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (ca. a.d. 122) <br/> 23. The Sermon on the Mount (ca. a.d. 28/35) <br/> 24. St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans (ca. a.d. 57) <br/><br/><br/>Part II Medieval Europe <br/>The Early Middle Ages <br/> 25. Tacitus, Germania (98) <br/> 26. Eusebius, In Praise of Constantine (336) <br/> 27. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413/426) <br/> 28. Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict (ca. 535/540) <br/> 29. The Burgundian Code (ca. 474) <br/> 30. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks (ca. 581/591) <br/> 31. Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of England (731) <br/> 32. Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829/836) <br/>Islam and the Eastern Empire <br/> 33. Justinian, Code (529/565) <br/> 34. Procopius, Secret History (ca. 560) <br/> 35. The Koran (7th century)<br/> 36. Ibn Al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle (ca. 1150) <br/>The High Middle Ages <br/> 37. Feudal Documents (11th/13th centuries) <br/> 38. Bernard of Angers, Miracles of St. Foy (ca. 1010) <br/> 39. Fulcher of Chartres, The First Crusade and the Siege of Jerusalem <br/>(1101/1127) <br/> 40. The Song of Roland (ca. 1100) <br/> 41. Marie de France, The Lay of the Were-Wolf (ca. 1160) <br/> 42. Magna Carta (1215) <br/> 43. Francis of Assisi, Admonitions (ca. 1220) <br/> 44. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1266/1273) <br/> 45. Dante, The Divine Comedy (ca. 1320) <br/> 46. Catherine of Siena, Letters (1376) <br/> 47. Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405) <br/> 48. Margaret Paston, Letters (1441/1448) <br/> 49. Witchcraft Documents (15th century) <br/><br/><br/>Part III Renaissance and Reformation <br/>The Renaissance <br/> 50. Francesco Petrarca, Letters (ca. 1372) <br/>51. Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family (1435/1444) <br/>52. Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550) <br/> 53. Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513) <br/> 54. Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509) <br/> 55. Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516) <br/> 56. Claude de Seyssel, The Monarchy of France (1515) <br/>The New Worlds <br/> 57. Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage (1493) <br/> 58. Ludovico di Varthema, Travels (ca. 1508) <br/> 59. Bartolomé de Las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies (1566) <br/> 60. Bernal Díaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552/1568)<br/> 61. Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie <br/>Kingdom of China (1585)<br/>Religious Reform <br/> 62. Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520) and Of Marriage <br/>and Celibacy (1566) <br/> 63. John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534) and Catechism <br/>(ca. 1540) <br/> 64. Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548) <br/>65. Teresa of Ávila, The Life of Saint Teresa (1611) <br/>The Early Modern World <br/> 66. Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554) <br/> 67. The Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia (1524); Martin Luther, <br/>Admonition to Peace (1525) <br/> 68. Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron (1558) <br/> 69. Magdalena and Balthasar Paumgartner, Letters (1592/1596) <br/> 70. Anonymous, The Debate About Women: Hic Mulier and Haec Vir (1620)<br/> <br/><br/>Part IV The Ancien Régime <br/>The Wars of Religion <br/> 71. Henry IV, The Edict of Nantes (1598) <br/> 72. William of Orange, Apology (1580) <br/> 73. Cardinal Richelieu, The Political Testament (1638) <br/> 74. Hans von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1669) <br/>Subjects and Sovereigns <br/> 75. James I, True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598) <br/> 76. Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579)<br/> 77. Sir William Clarke, The Putney Debates (1647) <br/> 78. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) <br/> 79. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689) <br/> 80. Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694/1723) <br/> |
