Sources of the West : Readings for Western Civilization

, by Mark Kishlansky

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Preface

vii

(4)

How to Read a Document

PART I The Origins of Western Civilization and the Classical World

(94)

CREATION EPICS

(20)

1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.)

(2)

2. The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 B.C.)

(6)

3. The Book of Genesis (10th-6th century B.C.)

(5)

4. Hesoid, Works and Days (ca. 700 B.C.)

(6)

THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST

(16)

5. Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.)

(3)

6. The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.)

(3)

7. The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th-6th century B.C.)

(4)

8. The Book of Isaiah (ca. 8th-6th century B.C.)

(5)

ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL GREECE

(28)

Homer

9. Iliad (9th-8th century B.C.)

(3)

10. Sappho of Lesbo, Poems (ca. 600 B.C.)

(2)

Herodotus

11. History (ca. 450 B.C.)

(3)

Plato

12. Apology (399 B.C.)

(5)

Plato

13. The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.)

(9)

Aristotle

14. Politics (4th century B.C.)

(5)

THE ROMAN WORLD

(28)

Cicero

15. The Trial of Aulus Cluentius Habitus (66 B.C.)

(4)

Virgil

16. Aeneid (30-19 B.C.)

(4)

Juvenal

17. Satires (ca. A.D. 116)

(3)

Plutarch

18. The Life of Cato the Elder (ca. A.D. 116)

(4)

Suetonius

19. The Life of Augustus (ca. A.D. 122)

(4)

20. The Sermon on the Mount (ca. A.D. 28-35)

(3)

St. Paul

21. Epistle to the Romans (ca. A.D. 57)

(5)

PART II Medieval Europe

(110)

THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES

(30)

Tacitus

22. Germania (98)

(3)

Eusebius

23. In Praise of Constantine (336)

101

(5)

24. Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413-26)

106

(4)

25. Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict (ca. 535-540)

110

(4)

26. The Burgundian Code (ca. 474)

114

(6)

27. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks (ca. 581-591)

120

(3)

Einhard

28. The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829-836)

123

(4)

ISLAM AND THE EASTERN EMPIRE

127

(22)

Justinian

29. Code (529-565)

128

(4)

Procopius

30. Secret History (ca. 560)

132

(4)

31. The Koran (7th century)

136

(4)

Michael Psellus

32. Chronographia (ca. 1070)

140

(5)

Ibn Al-Qalanisi

33. The Damascus Chronicle (ca. 1150)

145

(4)

THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES

149

(56)

34. Feudal Documents (11th-12th centuries)

150

(4)

Bernard of Angers

35. Miracles of St. Foy (ca. 1010)

154

(5)

36. The Song of Roland (ca. 1100)

159

(4)

37. Magna Carta (1215)

163

(3)

Francis of Assisi

38. Admonitions (ca. 1220)

166

(5)

Thomas Aquinas

39. Summa Theologica (1266-1273)

171

(5)

Dante

40. The Divine Comedy (ca. 1320)

176

(4)

41. Catherine of Siena, Letters (1376)

180

(5)

Jean Froissart

42. Chronicles (ca. 1400)

185

(6)

Christine de Pisan

43. The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405)

191

(6)

Margaret Paston

44. Letters (1441-1448)

197

(3)

45. Witchcraft Documents (15th century)

200

(5)

PART III Renaissance and Reformation

205

(92)

THE RENAISSANCE

207

(32)

Francesco Petrarca

46. Letters (ca. 1372)

208

(5)

Leon Battista Alberti

47. On the Family (1435-1444)

213

(6)

Giorgio Vasari

48. The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550)

219

(4)

Niccolo Machiavelli

49. The Prince (1513)

223

(4)

Desiderius Erasmus

50. In Praise of Folly (1509)

227

(4)

Sir Thomas More

51. Utopia (1516)

231

(4)

Claude de Seyssel

52. The Monarchy of France (1515)

235

(4)

THE NEW WORLDS

239

(16)

Christopher Columbus

53. Letter from the First Voyage (1493)

240

(4)

Ludovico di Varthema

54. Travels (ca. 1508)

244

(3)

Bartolome deLas Casas

55. Apologetic History of the Indies (1566)

247

(4)

Bernal Diaz

56. The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552-1568)

251

(4)

RELIGIOUS REFORM

255

(20)

Martin Luther

57. The Freedom of a Christian (1520) and Of Marriage and Celibacy (1566)

256

(6)

John Calvin

58. Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534) and Catechism (ca. 1540)

262

(8)

59. Teresa of Avila, The Life of Saint Teresa (1611)

270

(5)

THE EARLY MODERN WORLD

275

(22)

Anonymous

60. Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)

276

(3)

61. The Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia (1524) and Martin Luther, Admonition to Peace (1525)

279

(6)

Marguerite de Navarre

62. Heptameron (1558)

285

(4)

Magdalena

Balthasar Paumgartner

63. Letters (1592-1596)

289

(4)

Anonymous

64. The Debate About Women: Hic Mulier and Haec Vir (1620)

293

(4)

PART IV The Ancien Regime

297

(47)

THE WARS OF RELIGION

299

(20)

Francois Hotman

65. Francogallia (1573)

300

(3)

Henry IV

66. The Edict of Nantes (1598)

303

(3)

67. William of Orange, Apology (1580)

306

(4)

Cardinal Richelieu

68. The Political Testament (1638)

310

(3)

Hans von Grimmelshausen

69. Simplicissimus (1669)

313

(6)

SUBJECTS AND SOVEREIGNS

319

(25)

James I

70. True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598)

320

(5)

Philippe Duplessis-Mornay

71. A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579)

325

(5)

Thomas Hobbes

72. Leviathan (1651)

330

(3)

Sir William Clarke

73. The Putney Debates (1647)

333

(7)

Duc de Saint-Simon

74. Memoirs (1694-1723)

340

(4)

Acknowledgments

344

(4)

Photo Credits

348

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