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Tables of Contents for Western Civilization
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Preface
xxi
PART I CIVILIZATIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
3
32
Primary Sources
Using Primary Sources: The Laws of Hammurabi
5
2
The Laws of Hammurabi
7
2
Hymn to the Nile
9
1
Hymn to the Pharaoh
10
1
The Old Testament---Genesis and Exodus
11
2
The Aton Hymn and Psalm 104: The Egyptians and the Hebrews
13
1
Visual Sources
Using Visual Sources: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur
14
1
Sumer: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur (illustration)
15
1
Egyptian Wall Paintings from the Tomb of Menna (illustration)
16
2
The Environment and the Rise of Civilization in the Ancient Near East (maps)
18
2
Secondary Sources
Using Secondary Sources: The Agricultural Revolution
20
2
The Agricultural Revolution
22
2
Robert J. Braidwood
Bronze Age Cities and Civilizations
24
2
C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Freedom in the Ancient World: Civilization in Sumer
26
2
Herbert J. Muller
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
28
1
Henri Frankfort
H. A. Frankfort
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: The Afterlife
29
1
Lionel Casson
Women of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
30
1
Barbara S. Lesko
A History of the Jews
31
4
Paul Johnson
The Emergence of Greek Civilization
35
20
Primary Sources
Homer, The Iliad
37
2
A Colonization Agreement
39
1
Semonides of Amorgos, Poem on Women
40
1
Theognis of Megara, Aristocrats and Tyrants
41
1
Solon, Early Athens
42
3
Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians
45
2
Visual Sources
Trade, Culture, and Colonization (photo)
47
1
Migration and Colonization (maps)
48
2
Secondary Sources
The End of the Mycenaean World
50
2
Frank J. Frost
Greek Realities: The Homeric Epics
52
1
Finley Hooper
The Greek Experience: The Heroic Outlook
53
2
C. M. Bowra
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
55
32
Primary Sources
The History of the Peloponnesian War: The Historical Method
57
2
Thucydides
The History of the Peloponnesian War: Athens During the Golden Age
59
2
Thucydides
Antigone
61
3
Sophocles
The Republic
64
1
Plato
Politics
65
3
Aristotle
Household Management
68
2
Xenophon
Medicine and Magic
70
1
Hippocrates
Individual Happiness
71
2
Epicurus
Visual Sources
Education (photo)
73
1
The Dying Niobide: The Classical Balance (photo)
74
1
The Old Market Woman: Hellenistic Individualism (photo)
75
1
Geography and Political Configurations in Greece (map)
76
1
Secondary Sources
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women and Work in Athens
77
1
Sarah B. Pomeroy
The Greeks: Slavery
78
2
Anthony Andrews
The Ancient Greeks: Decline of the Polis
80
2
M. I. Finley
Alexander the Great
82
2
R. D. Milns
Greek Realities
84
3
Finley Hooper
The Rise of Rome
87
18
Primary Sources
Histories: The Roman Constitution
89
2
Polybius
The Education of a Roman Gentleman
91
2
Cicero
Menaechmi: Roman Slavery
93
1
Plautus
The Conspiracy of Catiline: Decline of the Republic
94
2
Sallust
Visual Sources
Evidence from Coins (photo)
96
1
The Geographic and Cultural Environment (map)
97
2
Secondary Sources
The Ancient City: Religious Practices
99
1
Fustel de Coulanges
Life and Leisure: The Roman Aristocrat
100
2
J. P. V. D. Balsdon
Roman Women
102
3
Gillian Clark
The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
105
26
Primary Sources
Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor
107
1
Meditations: Ideals of an Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
108
2
Marcus Aurelius
Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Rome and the Early Christians
110
2
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
112
2
Epistle to the Romans
114
1
St. Paul
The City of God
115
2
St. Augustine
The Fall of Rome
117
1
St. Jerome
Visual Sources
Carved Gemstone: Augustus and the Empire Transformed (photo)
118
2
Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture (photo)
120
1
Secondary Sources
The Roman Empire: The Place of Augustus
121
1
Chester G. Starr
Pagan and Christian: The Appeal of Christianity
122
2
E. R. Dodds
Women of the Roman Empire
124
1
Jo Ann McNamara
The Later Roman Empire
125
6
A. H. M. Jones
PART II THE MIDDLE AGES
The Early Middle Ages
131
20
Primary Sources
The Origins of Feudalism
133
1
Instructions to the Subjects of Charlemagne's Empire
134
2
Charlemagne
War and Conversion Under Charlemagne
136
1
Einhard
The Annals of Xanten, Disorder and Destruction
137
1
Visual Sources
Illustration from a Gospel Book: Christianity and Early Medieval Culture (illustration)
138
2
Painting from an Illuminated Bible: Secular and Religious Authority (illustration)
140
1
Contraction in the Early Middle Ages (maps)
141
3
Secondary Sources
Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Beginnings of Medieval Civilization
144
1
Henri Pirenne
The Carolingian West: The Genesis of Feudal Relationships
145
2
David Nicholas
An Evaluation of Feudalism
147
1
Daniel D. McGarry
Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women
148
3
Jo Ann McNamara
Suzanne F. Wemple
The Medieval East
151
20
Primary Sources
The Koran
153
1
Autobiography of a Muslin Scholar
154
3
Avicenna
The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law
157
2
The Rus: Cross-Cultural Contact
159
2
Ibn Fadlan
Visual Sources
Manuscript Illuminations: Scenes from the Life of Muhammad (illustrations)
161
3
Secondary Sources
Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
164
1
Cyril Mango
The Arabs in History
165
2
Bernard Lewis
The Islamic World
167
2
Albert Hourani
The Eastern Orientation of Islam
169
2
Peter Brown
The High Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
171
20
Primary Sources
Letters: Secular and Ecclesiastical Authority
173
1
Pope Gregory VII
Reginald of Durham, The Life of Saint Godric: A Merchant Adventurer
174
1
The Art of Courtly Love
175
1
Andreas Capellanus
The Decretum: Medieval Women---Not in God's Image
176
1
Gratian
Visual Sources
The Gospel Book of Otto III: Church and State (illustration)
177
2
Medieval Expansion (maps)
179
4
Secondary Sources
Medieval Values
183
1
Jacques Le Goff
The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status
184
1
Margaret Wade Labarge
The Merchant
185
1
Aron Ja. Gurevich
The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom
186
1
R. W. Southern
Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People
187
4
Marc Bloch
The High Middle Ages: The Crusades and the East
191
14
Primary Sources
Pope Urban II, The Opening of the Crusades
193
1
Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders' Motives
194
1
Pope Eugenius III, Inducements for the Crusades
195
1
Princess Anna Comnena, The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades
196
1
Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions
197
2
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
Visual Sources
Conflict and Cultural Exchange (illustration)
199
1
Secondary Sources
The Great Significance of the Crusades
200
1
Henri Pirenne
The Meaning of the Middle Ages: The Crusades Minimized
201
1
Norman F. Cantor
Byzantine East and Latin West
202
1
Deno J. Geanakoplos
The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilence
203
2
Robert Browning
The High Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century
205
22
Primary Sources
Pope Innocent III, Papal Proclamation of Supremacy
207
1
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration
208
1
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis
209
1
Summa Theologica
210
2
St. Thomas Aquinas
Political Authority: The Emperor, the Princes, and the Towns
212
2
Frederick II
Decrees of the Hanseatic League
214
1
Ordinances of the Guild Merchants of Southampton
215
2
Chambermaids
217
1
Bartholomaeus Anglicus
Visual Sources
Medieval Life (illustration)
217
2
Secularization and the Medieval Knight (illustration)
219
2
Secondary Sources
The Outlaws of Medieval Legend: Social Rank and Injustice
221
1
Maurice Keen
Life in Cities: Violence and Fear
222
2
Jacques Rossiaud
Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change
224
3
David Herlihy
The Late Middle Ages
227
28
Primary Sources
Attack on the Papacy: The Conciliar Movement
229
1
Manual of the Inquisitor
230
2
Bernard Gui
The Rebellions of 1381
232
2
Sir John Froissart
The Decameron: The Plague in Florence
234
2
Giovanni Boccaccio
Statute of Laborers
236
1
King Edward III
The Canterbury Tales
237
2
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Goodman of Paris: Instructions on Being a Good Wife
239
2
Visual Sources
The Church Besieged (illustration)
241
1
The Triumph of Death (illustration)
242
2
Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (map)
244
1
Food and Crime (chart)
245
1
Secondary Sources
The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
246
1
Francis Oakley
The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective
247
2
Millard Meiss
A Psychological Perspective of the Black Death
249
6
William L. Langer
PART III RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION
The Renaissance
255
18
Primary Sources
A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
257
1
Francesco Petrarch
On the Liberal Arts
258
2
Peter Paul Vergerio
The City of Ladies
260
1
Christine de Pizan
The Prince
261
2
Niccolo Machiavelli
Visual Sources
The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
263
1
Raphael
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (illustration)
264
2
Jan van Eyck
Secondary Sources
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
266
1
Jacob Burckhardt
The Myth of the Renaissance
267
1
Peter Burke
Machiavelli and the Renaissance
268
2
Federico Chabod
Northern Sources of the Renaissance
270
3
Carles G. Nauert
The Reformation
273
24
Primary Sources
The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
275
1
Johann Tetzel
Justification by Faith
276
1
Martin Luther
On the Bondage of the Will
277
1
Martin Luther
Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
278
2
Martin Luther
Institutes of the Christian Religion: Predestination
280
1
John Calvin
Constitution of the Society of Jesus
281
1
Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
282
2
Visual Sources
Luther and the New Testament (illustration)
284
1
Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
284
3
Peter Paul Rubens
Secondary Sources
What Was the Reformation?
287
1
Euan Cameron
A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
288
1
G. R. Elton
The Catholic Reformation
289
3
John C. Olin
The Legacy of the Reformation
292
1
Steven E. Ozment
Women in the Reformation
293
4
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
Overseas Expansion and New Politics
297
20
Primary Sources
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
299
2
Gomes Eannes de Azurara
Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
301
2
Christopher Columbus
Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
303
1
Jacob Fugger
Visual Sources
The Assets and Liabilities of Empire (text and illustration)
304
1
Frans Fracken II
Exploration, Expansion, and Politics (maps)
305
3
Secondary Sources
The Expansion of Europe
308
1
Richard B. Reed
The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
309
3
Charles V
312
5
G. R. Elton
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
War and Revolution: 1560-1660
317
22
Primary Sources
Civil War in France
319
1
Ogier Ghiselin de Busecq
Political Will and Testament
320
1
Richelieu
Archbishop of Salzburg, Mandate: Religious Persecution in Austria
321
1
Wolf Dietrich
The Powers of the Monarch in England
322
1
James I
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
323
2
Visual Sources
War and Violence (illustration)
325
1
Jan Brueghel
Sebastien Vrancx
Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and illustration)
326
3
Thomas Hobbes
Germany and the Thirty Years' War (maps)
329
2
Secondary Sources
A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War
331
1
Hajo Holborn
A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War
332
2
Carl J. Friedrich
The Causes of the English Civil War
334
2
Conrad Russell
The Devil's Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
336
3
William Monter
Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
339
18
Primary Sources
Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
341
2
Philipp W. von Hornick
The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia
343
1
Frederick William
Memoires: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
344
2
Saint-Simon
Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
346
1
John Locke
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
347
2
Maternal Care (illustration)
349
1
Pieter de Hooch
Secondary Sources
Absolutism: Myth and Reality
350
1
G. Durand
The English Revolution, 1688-1689
351
1
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Centuries of Childhood
352
1
Philippe Aries
The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
353
4
Peter Laslett
The Scientific Revolution
357
13
Primary Sources
The Discourse on Method
359
1
Rene Descartes
Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
360
1
Galileo Galilei
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
361
1
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
362
1
Sir Isaac Newton
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
363
2
Secondary Sources
Why Was Science Backward in the Middle Ages?
365
2
Michael Postan
Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution
367
1
Sir George Clark
The Scientific Role: A Sociocultural Interpretation of the Scientific Revolution
368
2
Joseph Ben-David
No Scientific Revolution for Women
370
Bonnie S. Anderson
Judith P. Zinsser