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Tables of Contents for Western Civilization
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
xv
Using this Book
xvii
Part One Civilizations of the Ancient World
Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Primary Sources
Using Primary Sources: The Laws of Hammurabi
4
1
The Laws of Hammurabi
5
2
The Epic of Gilgamesh
7
1
Hymn to the Nile
8
1
Hymn to the Pharaoh
9
1
The Old Testament---Genesis and Exodus
9
1
The Aton Hymn and Psalm 104: The Egyptians and the Hebrews
10
1
Visual Sources
Using Visual Sources: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur
10
1
Sumer: The ``Royal Standard'' of Ur (photo)
11
1
Egyptian Wall Paintings from the Tomb of Menna (photo)
11
2
The Environment and the Rise of Civilization in the Ancient Near East (maps)
13
1
Secondary Sources
Using Secondary Sources: The Agricultural Revolution
14
1
The Agricultural Revolution
15
2
Robert J. Braidwood
The Process of Civilization
17
1
William H. McNeill
Freedom in the Ancient World: Civilization in Sumer
18
1
Herbert J. Muller
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
19
1
Henri Frankfort
H. A. Frankfort
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: The Afterlife
20
1
Lionel Casson
Women of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
20
1
Barbara S. Lesko
A History of the Jews
21
3
Paul Johnson
The Emergence of Greek Civilization
Primary Sources
Homer, The Iliad
24
1
Hesiod, Works and Days
25
1
A Colonization Agreement
26
1
Semonides of Amorgos, Poem on Women
26
1
Theognis of Megara, Aristocrats and Tyrants
27
1
Solon, Early Athens
27
2
Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians
29
1
Visual Sources
Trade, Culture, and Colonization (photo)
30
1
Migration and Colonization (maps)
31
2
Secondary Sources
The End of the Mycenaean World
33
1
Frank J. Frost
Greek Realities: The Homeric Epics
34
1
Finley Hooper
Social Values and Ethics in the ``Dark Age'' of Greece
34
4
Sarah B. Pomeroy
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
Primary Sources
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: The Historical Method
38
1
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: Athens During the Golden Age
39
1
Sophocles, Antigone
40
1
Plato, The Republic
41
1
Aristotle, Politics
42
2
Xenophon, Household Management
44
1
Hippocrates, Medicine and Magic
45
1
Epicurus, Individual Happiness
46
1
Visual Sources
Education (photo)
47
1
The Women's Quarters (photo)
47
1
The Dying Niobide: The Classical Balance (photo)
47
1
The Old Market Woman: Hellenistic Individualism (photo)
48
1
Geography and Political Configurations in Greece (map)
48
1
Secondary Sources
Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women and Work in Athens
49
1
Sarah B. Pomeroy
The Greeks: Slavery
50
1
Anthony Andrews
The Ancient Greeks: Decline of the Polis
51
1
M. I. Finley
Alexander the Great
52
1
Richard Stoneman
Greek Realities
53
3
Finley Hooper
The Rise of Rome
Primary Sources
Polybius, Histories: The Roman Constitution
56
1
Cicero, The Education of a Roman Gentleman
57
1
Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, Eulogy for a Roman Wife
58
1
Plautus, Menaechmi: Roman Slavery
59
1
Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline: Decline of the Republic
60
1
Visual Sources
Evidence from Coins (photo)
61
1
The Geographic and Cultural Environment (map)
61
2
Secondary Sources
The Ancient City: Religious Practices
63
1
Fustel de Coulanges
Life and Leisure: The Roman Aristocrat
64
1
J. P. V. D. Balsdon
Roman Women
64
4
Gillian Clark
The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Primary Sources
Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor
68
1
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations: Ideals of an Emperor and Stoic Philosopher
69
1
Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Rome and the Early Christians
69
2
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
71
1
Epistle to the Romans
72
1
St. Paul
The City of God
73
1
St. Augustine
The Germanic Tribes
74
1
Ammianus Marcellinus
The Fall of Rome
74
1
St. Jerome
Visual Sources
Carved Gemstone: Augustus and the Empire Transformed (photo)
75
1
Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture (photo)
76
1
Secondary Sources
The Roman Empire: The Place of Augustus
77
1
Chester G. Starr
Pagan and Christian: The Appeal of Christianity
77
1
E. R. Dodds
Women of the Roman Empire
78
1
Jo Ann McNamara
The Later Roman Empire
79
5
A. H. M. Jones
Part Two The Middle Ages
The Early Middle Ages
Primary Sources
Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks
84
1
The Origins of Feudalism
85
1
Charlemagne, Instructions to the Subjects of Charlemagne's Empire
86
1
Einhard, War and Conversion Under Charlemagne
86
1
The Annals of Xanten, Disorder and Destruction
87
1
The Wanderer: Life of a Medieval Warrior
88
1
Visual Sources
Illustration from a Gospel Book: Christiantiy and Early Medieval Culture (illustration)
89
1
Painting from an Illuminated Bible: Secular and Religious Authority (illustration)
90
1
Contraction in the Early Middle Ages (maps)
91
1
Secondary Sources
Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Beginnings of Medieval Civilization
92
1
Henri Pirenne
The Carolingian West: The Genesis of Feudal Relationships
93
1
David Nicholas
An Evaluation of Feudalism
94
1
Daniel D. McGarry
Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women
95
3
Jo Ann McNamara
Suzanne F. Wemple
The Medieval East
Primary Sources
The Qur'an
98
1
Letter to `Umar II: Islamic Asceticism
99
1
Hasan al-Basri
Avicenna, Autobiography of a Muslim Scholar
100
1
The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law
101
1
The Rus: Cross-Cultural Contact
102
1
Ibn Fadlan
Visual Sources
Manuscript Illuminations: Scenes from the Life of Muhammad (photo)
103
2
The Byzantine Empire and the Expansion of Islam (maps)
105
2
Secondary Sources
Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
107
1
Cyril Mango
The Arabs in History
107
1
Bernard Lewis
The Islamic World
108
1
Albert Hourani
The Eastern Orientation of Islam
109
3
Peter Brown
The High Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Primary Sources
Letters: Secular and Ecclesiastical Authority
112
1
Pope Gregory VII
Reginal of Durham, The Life of Saint Godric: A Merchant Adventurer
112
1
The Art of Courtly Love
113
1
Andreas Capellanus
Gratian, The Decretum: Medieval Women---Not in God's Image
114
1
Visual Sources
The Gospel Book of Otto III: Church and State (photo)
114
1
Medieval Expansion (maps)
114
3
Secondary Sources
Medieval Values
117
1
Jacques Le Goff
The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status
118
1
Margaret Wade Labarge
The Merchant
119
1
Aron Ja. Gurevich
The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom
119
1
R. W. Southern
Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People
120
2
Marc Bloch
The High Middle Ages: The Crusades and the East
Primary Sources
The Opening of the Crusades
122
1
Pope Urban II
Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders' Motives
123
1
Inducements for the Crusades
123
1
Pope Eugenius III
Princess Anna Comnena, The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades
123
1
Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions
124
1
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh
Visual Sources
Conflict and Cultural Exchange (photo)
125
1
Secondary Sources
The Meaning of the Crusades
126
1
Christopher Tyerman
The Significance of the Crusades
126
1
Thomas F. Madden
The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience
127
3
Robert Browning
The High Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century
Primary Sources
Papal Proclamation of Supremacy
130
1
Pope Innocent III
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration
130
1
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis
131
1
Summa Theologica
132
1
St. Thomas Aquinas
Political Authority: The Emperor, the Princes, and the Towns
133
1
Frederick II
Decrees of the Hanseatic League
134
1
Ordinances of the Guild Merchants of Southampton
134
1
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Chambermaids
135
1
Visual Sources
Medieval Life (photo)
136
1
Secularization and the Medieval Knight (photo)
136
1
Secondary Sources
The Outlaws of Medieval Legend: Social Rank and Injustice
137
1
Maurice Keen
Life in Cities: Violence and Fear
138
1
Jacques Rossiaud
Solitude
139
1
Georges Duby
Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change
140
2
David Herlihy
The Late Middle Ages
Primary Sources
Attack on the Papacy: The Conciliar Movement
142
1
Manual of the Inquisitor
143
1
Bernard Gui
The Rebellions of 1381
143
2
Sir John Froissart
The Decameron: The Plague in Florence
145
1
Giovanni Boccaccio
Statute of Laborers
146
1
King Edward III
The Canterbury Tales
146
1
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Goodman of Paris: Instructions on Being a Good Wife
147
2
Visual Sources
The Church Besieged (photo)
149
1
The Triumph of Death (photo)
149
1
Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (map)
149
1
Food and Crime (chart)
149
3
Secondary Sources
The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
152
1
Francis Oakley
The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective
153
1
Millard Meiss
A Psychological Perspective of the Black Death
154
6
William L. Langer
Part Three Renaissance, Reformation, and Expansion
The Renaissance
Primary Sources
A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
160
1
Francesco Petrarch
On the Liberal Arts
161
1
Peter Paul Vergerio
The City of Ladies
161
1
Christine de Pizan
The Prince
162
1
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Book of the Courtier
163
1
Baldesar Castiglione
Visual Sources
Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (photo)
164
2
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (photo)
166
1
Jan van Eyck
Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (photo)
166
2
Hans Holbein
Secondary Sources
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
168
1
Jacob Burckhardt
The Myth of the Renaissance
169
1
Peter Burke
Machiavelli and the Renaissance
170
1
Federico Chabod
Northern Sources of the Renaissance
171
3
Charles G. Nauert
The Reformation
Primary Sources
The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
174
1
Johann Tetzel
Justification by Faith
175
1
Martin Luther
On the Bondage of the Will
175
1
Martin Luther
Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
176
1
Martin Luther
Institutes of the Christian Religion: Predestination
177
1
John Calvin
Constitution of the Society of Jesus
178
1
Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
178
1
Visual Sources
Luther and the New Testament (photo)
179
1
Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (photo)
179
2
Sebald Beham
Loyola and Catholic Reform (photo)
181
1
Peter Paul Rubens
Secondary Sources
What Was the Reformation?
182
1
Euan Cameron
A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
182
1
G. R. Elton
The Catholic Reformation
183
1
John C. Olin
The Legacy of the Reformation
184
1
Steven E. Ozment
Women in the Reformation
185
3
Marilyn J. Boxer
Jean H. Quataert
Overseas Expansion and New Politics
Primary Sources
The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea
188
1
Gomes Eannes de Azurara
Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
189
1
Christopher Columbus
Memoirs: The Aztecs
190
1
Bernal Diaz del Castillo
Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
191
1
Jacob Fugger
Visual Sources
The Assets and Liabilities of Empire (text and photo)
192
1
Frans Franken II
The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs (photo)
193
1
Exploration, Expansion, and Politics (maps)
193
2
Secondary Sources
The Expansion of Europe
195
1
Richard B. Reed
The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
196
1
M. L. Bush
Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
197
5
Gary Nash
Part Four The Early Modern Period
War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Civil War in France
202
1
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
202
1
The Powers of the Monarch in England
203
1
James I
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
203
1
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
204
1
Visual Sources
War and Violence (photo)
205
1
Jan Brueghel
Sebastien Vrancx
Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and photo)
205
2
Thomas Hobbes
Germany and the Thirty Years' War (maps)
207
1
Secondary Sources
A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War
208
1
Hajo Holborn
A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War
209
1
Carl J. Friedrich
War and Peace in the Old Regime
210
1
M. S. Anderson
The Causes of the English Civil War
210
1
Conrad Russell
The Devil's Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
211
3
William Monter
Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century*
Primary Sources
Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
214
1
Philipp W. von Hornick
The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia
215
1
Frederick William
Memoires: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
215
1
Saint-Simon
Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
216
1
John Locke
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
217
1
Maternal Care (photo)
218
1
Pieter de Hooch
Secondary Sources
Absolutism: Myth and Reality
219
1
G. Durand
The English Revolution, 1688-1689
220
1
George Macaulay Trevelyan
Centuries of Childhood
220
1
Philippe Aries
The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
221
3
Peter Laslett
The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
The Discourse on Method
224
1
Rene Descartes
Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
224
1
Galileo Galilei
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
225
1
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
226
1
Sir Isaac Newton
Visual Source
A Vision of the New Science (photo)
226
2
Secondary Sources
Why Was Science Backward in the Middle Ages?
228
1
Michael Postan
Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution
229
1
Sir George Clark
No Scientific Revolution for Women
229
Bonnie S. Anderson
Judith P. Zinsser