Sources of the Western Tradition, volume 1

, by Perry, Marvin; Peden, Joseph R.; Von Laue, Theodore H.

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ISBN: 9780395892015 | 0395892015
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Copyright: 7/13/1998

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This successful two-volume primary source reader emphasizes the history of ideas. Each of its 300 sources is accompanied by an introductory essay and review questions."How to Read Sources" prologue helps students read and interpret primary sources. The author uses the example of Holocaust deniers for this prologue, showing students the danger of improper analysis and use of documents.Approximately one-third of the documents are new to the Fifth Edition.

Preface

Part One: The Ancient World

(190)

The Near East

(26)

Mesopotamian Protest Against Death

(4)

Epic of Gilgamesh

(3)

A Pessimistic View of Life

(2)

Mesopotamian Wisdom Literature

(2)

Mesopotamian Concepts of Justice

(4)

Code of Hammurabi

(3)

Divine Kingship in Egypt

(2)

Hymns to the Pharaohs

(1)

Guidelines for the Ruler

(1)

Religious Inspiration of Akhenaten

(2)

Hymn to Aton

(2)

Love, Passion, and Misogyny in Ancient Egypt

(2)

Love Poetry

(1)

The Instruction of Ankhsheshonq

(1)

Empire Builders

(3)

The Assyrian Empire: Inscription of Tiglathpileser I

(1)

The Persian Empire: Inscriptions of Cyrus and Darius I

(2)

The Myth-making Outlook of the Ancient Near East

(5)

Personification of Natural Objects

(1)

Enuma elish: The Babylonian Genesis

(1)

Lament for Ur: The Gods and Human Destiny

(2)

The Hebrews

(16)

Hebrew Cosmogony and Anthropology

(4)

Genesis

(4)

The Covenant and the Ten Commandments

(1)

Exodus: The Covenant

(1)

Exodus: The Ten Commandments

(1)

Humaneness of Hebrew Law

(3)

Leviticus: Neighbor and Community

(1)

Deutreronomy: Judges, Witnesses, and Justice

(2)

The Age of Classical Prophecy

(2)

Amos and Isaiah: Social Justice

(1)

Isaiah: Peace and Humanity

(1)

The Problem of Undeserved Suffering

(4)

Book of Job

(4)

The Greeks

(58)

Homer: The Educator of Greece

(3)

Homer: The Iliad

(2)

Early Greek Philosophy: The Emancipation of Thought from Myth

(3)

Aristotle: Thales of Miletus

(1)

Anaximander

(1)

Aristotle: Pythagoras

(1)

The Expansion of Reason

(3)

Hippocrates: The Sacred Disease: The Separation of Medicine from Myth

(1)

Thucydides: Method of Historical Inquiry

(1)

Critias: Religion as a Human Invention

(1)

Humanism

(2)

Pindar: The Pursuit of Excellence

(1)

Sophocles: Antigone ``Man the Skilled, the Brilliant''

(1)

The Persian Wars

(3)

Herodotus: The Histories

(3)

Greek Drama

(5)

Sophocles: Antigone

(5)

Athenian Greatness

(3)

Thucydides: The Funeral Oration of Pericles

(2)

The Status of Women in Classical Greek Society

(5)

Xenophon: Oeconomicus

(1)

Aristophanes: Lysistrata

(4)

The Peloponnesian War

(6)

Thucydides: The Melian Dialogue and the Revolution at Corcyra

(5)

Socrates: The Rational Individual

(4)

Plato: The Apology

(4)

Plato: The Philosopher-King

(6)

Plato: The Republic

(6)

Aristotle: Science, Politics, and Ethics

(5)

Aristotle: History of Animals, Politics, and Nicomachean Ethics

(5)

Hellenistic Philosophy: Epicureanism

(2)

Epicurus: The Prudent Pursuit of Pleasure

(1)

Greek Culture and the Jews in the Hellenistic Age

(5)

First Book of Maccabees: Jewish Resistance to Forced Hellenization

(1)

Philo of Alexandria: Appreciation of Greek Culture and synthesis of Reason and Revelation

(3)

The Roman Republic

101

(28)

Rome's March to World Empire

102

(3)

Polybius: The Roman Army

103

(2)

The Punic Wars

105

(4)

Livy: the Second Punic War: The Threat from Hannibal

105

(2)

Appian of Alexandria: The Third Punic War: The Destruction of Carthage

107

(2)

Exploitation of the Provinces

109

(2)

Cicero: Oration Against Verres

109

(2)

Roman Slavery

111

(4)

Diodorus Siculus: Slaves: Torment and Revolt

112

(3)

Women in Republican Society

115

(4)

Livy: Cato Protests Against the Demands of Roman Women

115

(2)

Quintus Lucretius Vespillo: A Funeral Eulogy for a Roman Wife

117

(2)

Tiberius Gracchus and the Crisis in Agriculture

119

(2)

Plutarch: Tiberius Gracchus

119

(2)

The Decline of the Republic

121

(3)

Sallust: The Conspiracy of Catiline

121

(3)

Cicero: Statesman and Philosopher

124

(2)

Cicero: Advocate of Stoicism

124

(2)

The Meaning of Caesar's Assassination

126

(3)

Cicero: Justifying the Assassination

126

(1)

Dio Cassius: In Defense of Caesar and Monarchy

127

(2)

The Roman Empire

129

(37)

The Imperial Office

131

(3)

Augustus: The Achievements of the Divine Augustus

132

(1)

Tacitus: The Imposition of One-Man Rule

133

(1)

Imperial Culture

134

(6)

Virgil: The Aeneid

135

(1)

Quintilian: The Education of the Orator

135

(3)

Juvenal: The Satires

138

(2)

Roman Stoicism

140

(6)

Seneca: The Moral Epistles

141

(2)

Marcus Aurelius: Meditations

143

(3)

Roman Law

146

(2)

Justinian: Corpus Iuris Civilis

146

(2)

Provincial Administration

148

(4)

Correspondence Between Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan

148

(4)

The Roman Peace

152

(6)

Aelius Aristides: The Roman Oration: The Blessings of the Pax Romana

152

(2)

Tacitus: The Other Side of the Pax Romana

154

(1)

Josephus: Resistance to Roman Rule in Judea

155

(3)

Third-Century Crisis

158

(3)

Dio Cassius: Caracalla's Extortions

158

(1)

Petition to Emperor Philip

159

(1)

Herodian: Extortions of Maximinus

160

(1)

The Demise of Rome

161

(5)

Salvian: Political and Social Injustice

161

(2)

Jerome: The Fate of Rome

163

(1)

Pope Gregory I: The End of Roman Glory

164

(2)

Early Christianity

166

(25)

The Teachings of Jesus

168

(3)

The Gospel According to Saint Mark

168

(1)

The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

169

(2)

Saint Paul's View of Jesus, His Mission, and His Teaching

171

(2)

The Letter of Paul to the Ephesians

171

(1)

The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians

172

(1)

Christianity and society

173

(2)

Athenagoras: Sexuality and Family Life

174

(1)

The Persecutions

175

(3)

Persecutions at Lyons and Vienne

176

(2)

Christianity and Greco-Roman Learning

178

(2)

Tertullian: What Has Jerusalem to Do with Athens?

178

(1)

Clement of Alexandria: In Defense of Greek Learning

179

(1)

Monastic Life

180

(4)

Saint Benedict of Nursia: The Benedictine Rule

181

(3)

The Christian World-View

184

(7)

Saint Augustine: The City of God

185

(3)

Saint Benedict of Nursia: The Christian Way of Life

188

(1)

Pope Gelasius I: Church and State

189

(2)

Part Two: The Middle Ages

191

(88)

The Early Middle Ages

191

(27)

Islam

193

(4)

Muhammad: The Koran

194

(3)

Preservation of Ancient Learning in the East

197

(3)

Theophylact Simocattes: The Value of Reason and History

197

(1)

Avicenna: Love of Learning

198

(2)

Converting the Germanic Peoples to Christianity

200

(6)

Bede: History of the English Church and People

201

(2)

Saint Boniface: Sacred Mission to Germany

203

(2)

Einhard: Forcible Conversion Under Charlemagne

205

(1)

The Transmission of Learning

206

(2)

Cassiodorus: The Monk as Scribe

207

(1)

The Carolingian Renaissance

208

(3)

Einhard: Charlemagne's Appreciation of Learning

209

(1)

Charlemagne: An Injunction to Monasteries to Cultivate Letters

210

(1)

The Feudal Lord: Vassal and Warrior

211

(3)

Galbert of Bruges: Commendation and the Oath of Fealty

212

(1)

Fulber, Bishop of Chartres: Obligations of Lords and Vassals

213

(1)

Bertran de Born: In Praise of Combat

213

(1)

The Burdens of Serfdom

214

(4)

The Customs of the Manor of Darnhall

215

(3)

The High and Late Middle Ages

218

(61)

The Revival of Trade and the Growth of Towns

221

(4)

How to Succeed in Business

221

(2)

Ordinances of the Guild Merchant of Southampton

223

(2)

Theological Basis for Papal Power

225

(3)

Pope Gregory VII: The Second Letter to Bishop Herman of Metz and the Dictatus Papae

225

(3)

The First Crusade

228

(2)

Robert the Monk: Appeal of Urban II to the Franks

229

(1)

Religious Dissent

230

(5)

Bernard Gui: the Waldensian Teachings

231

(2)

Emperor Frederick II: Heretics: Enemies of God and Humanity

233

(2)

Medieval Learning: Synthesis of Reason and Christian Faith

235

(5)

Peter Abelard: Inquiry into Divergent Views of Church Fathers

235

(1)

Saint Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles

236

(4)

Medieval Universities

240

(4)

John of Salisbury: On the Liberal Arts

240

(2)

What Is a Scholar?

242

(1)

Geoffrey Chaucer: An Oxford Cleric

242

(1)

Student Letters

243

(1)

The Jews in the Middle Ages

244

(5)

Albert of Aix-la-Chapelle: Massacre of the Jews of Mainz

245

(1)

A Decree by Pope Innocent III

246

(1)

The Libel of Ritual Murder

246

(1)

Maimonides: Jewish Learning

247

(2)

Troubadour Love Songs

249

(3)

Love as Joyous, Painful, and Humorous

250

(2)

The Status of Women in Medieval Society

252

(7)

Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer: Antifemale Prejudices

252

(2)

Christine de Pisan: The City of Ladies

254

(3)

A Merchant of Paris: On Love and Marriage

257

(2)

Medieval Contributions to the Tradition of Liberty

259

(5)

John of Salisbury: Policraticus: A Defense of Tyrannicide

260

(1)

Magna Carta

260

(2)

Edward I of England: Writs of Summons to Parliament

262

(2)

Fourteenth-Century Pestilence

264

(3)

Jean de Venette: The Black Death

265

(2)

Lower-Class Rebellions

267

(3)

Sir John Froissart: The Peasant Revolt of 1381

267

(3)

The Medieval World-View

270

(9)

Lothario dei Segni (Pope Innocent III): On the Misery of the Human Condition

270

(2)

Dante Alighieri: The Divine Comedy

272

(5)

Van Eyck: The Last Judgment

277

(2)

Part Three: Early Modern Europe

279

(1)

The Renaissance

279

(2)

The Humanists' Fascination with Antiquity

281

(1)

Petrarch: The Father of Humanism

282

(1)

Leonardo Bruni: Study of Greek Literature and A Humanist Educational Program

283

(2)

Human Dignity

285

(1)

Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man

286

(2)

Break with Medieval Political Theory

288

(1)

Niccolo Machiavelli: The Prince

288

(3)

Renaissance Florence

291

(1)

Francesco Guicciardini: The Greatness of Lorenzo de Medici

292

(1)

Benedetto Dei: Florence, 1472

293

(1)

Renaissance Art

294

(1)

Leon Battista Alberti: On Painting

294

(2)

Leonardo da Vinci: Art and Science

296

(3)

The Spread of the Renaissance

299

(1)

Francois Rabelais: Celebration of the Worldly Life

299

(2)

William Shakespeare: Human Nature and the Human Condition

301

(4)

The Reformation

305

(3)

Late Medieval Attempts to Reform the Church

308

(1)

Thomas a Kempis: The Imitation of Christ

308

(2)

A Catholic Critic of the Church

310

(1)

Desiderius Erasmus: In Praise of Folly

311

(2)

The Lutheran Reformation

313

(1)

Martin Luther: On Papal Power, Justification by Faith, the interpretation of the Bible, and The Nature of the Clergy

314

(4)

The German Peasants' Revolt

318

(1)

The Twelve Articles

318

(1)

Martin Luther: Against the Peasants

319

(1)

Luther and the Jews

320

(1)

Martin Luther: On the Jews and Their Lies

321

(1)

The Calvinist Reformation

322

(1)

John Calvin: The Institutes, Ecclesiastical Ordinances, and The Obedience Owed Rulers

323

(4)

The Catholic Response to Protestantism

327

(1)

Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent

327

(3)

Saint Ignatius Loyola: The Spiritual Exercises

330

(3)

Early Modern Society and Politics

333

(2)

The Age of Exploration and Conquest

335

(1)

Bernal Diaz del Castillo: The Discovery and Conquest of Mexico

336

(4)

Toward the Modern Economy: The Example of Holland

340

(1)

John Keymer: Dutch Trade and Commerce as a Model

340

(3)

William Carr: Capitalism in Amsterdam

343

(3)

The Atlantic Slave Trade

346

(1)

Seventeenth-Century Slave Traders: Buying and Transporting Africans

346

(3)

Olaudah Equiano: Memoirs of a Former Slave

349

(2)

The Witch Craze

351

(1)

Jakob Sprenger and Heinrich Kramer: The Hammer of Witches

352

(2)

Johannes Junius: A Confession of Witchcraft Explained

354

(1)

Nicholas Malebranche: Search after Truth

355

(2)

Justification of Absolute Monarchy by Divine Right

357

(1)

James I: True Law of Free Monarchies and A Speech to Parliament

358

(1)

The Court of Louis XIV

359

(1)

Duc de Saint-Simon: An Assessment of Louis XIV

359

(3)

Liselotte von der Pfalz (Elizabeth Charlotte d'Orleans): A Sketch of Court Life

362

(3)

Constitutional Resistance Royal Absolutism

365

(1)

Philippe du Plessis-Mornay: Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants

366

(3)

A Secular Defense of Absolutism

369

(1)

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

370

(2)

The Triumph of Constitutional Monarchy in England: The Glorious Revolution

372

(1)

The English Declaration of Rights

373

(3)

The Scientific Revolution

376

(3)

The Copernican Revolution

379

(1)

Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres

379

(3)

Cardinal Bellarmine: Attack on the Copernican Theory

382

(1)

Expanding the New Astronomy

383

(1)

Galileo Galilei: The Starry Messenger

383

(2)

Critique of Authority

385

(1)

Galileo Galilei: Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina and Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems---Ptolemaic and Copernican

386

(3)

Prophet of Modern Science

389

(1)

Francis Bacon: Attack on Authority and Advocacy of Experimental science

390

(2)

The Circulation of the Blood

392

(1)

William Harvey: The Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals

392

(2)

The Autonomy of the Mind

394

(1)

Rene Descartes: Discourse on Method

395

(3)

The Mechanical Universe

398

(1)

Isaac Newton: Principia Mathematica

398

(3)

The Enlightnment

401

(2)

The Enlightenment Outlook

403

(1)

Immanuel Kant: What Is Enlightenment?

403

(2)

Political Liberty

405

(1)

John Locke: Second Treatise on Government

405

(2)

Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence

407

(1)

Attack on the Old Regime

408

(1)

Voltaire: A Plea for Tolerance and Reason

409

(3)

Attack on Religion

412

(1)

Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason

413

(1)

Baron d'Holbach: Good Sense

414

(2)

Epistemology and Education

416

(1)

John Locke: Essay Concerning Human Understanding

416

(2)

John Locke: Some thoughts Concerning Education

418

(2)

Claude Helvetius: Essays on the Mind and A Treatise on Man

420

(2)

Jean Jacques Rousseau: Emile

422

(2)

Compendium of Knowledge

424

(1)

Denis Diderot: Encyclopedia

424

(3)

Rousseau: Political Reform

427

(1)

Jean Jacques Rousseau: The Social Contract

427

(4)

Judicial and Penal Reform

431

(1)

Caesare Beccaria: On Crime and Punishments

431

(1)

John Howard: Prisons in England and Wales

432

(2)

On the Progress of Humanity

434

(1)

Marquis de Condorcet: The Evils of Slavery

434

(2)

Marquis de Condorcet: Progress of the Human Mind

436

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Sources of the Western Tradition, volume 1

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