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Tables of Contents for Sources of the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
4
How to Read a Document
xi
PART I The Origins of Western Civilization and the Classical World
1
94
CREATION EPICS
3
20
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.)
4
2
2. The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 B.C.)
6
6
3. The Book of Genesis (10th-6th century B.C.)
12
5
4. Hesoid, Works and Days (ca. 700 B.C.)
17
6
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
23
16
5. Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.)
24
3
6. The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.)
27
3
7. The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th-6th century B.C.)
30
4
8. The Book of Isaiah (ca. 8th-6th century B.C.)
34
5
ANCIENT AND CLASSICAL GREECE
39
28
Homer
9. Iliad (9th-8th century B.C.)
40
3
10. Sappho of Lesbo, Poems (ca. 600 B.C.)
43
2
Herodotus
11. History (ca. 450 B.C.)
45
3
Plato
12. Apology (399 B.C.)
48
5
Plato
13. The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.)
53
9
Aristotle
14. Politics (4th century B.C.)
62
5
THE ROMAN WORLD
67
28
Cicero
15. The Trial of Aulus Cluentius Habitus (66 B.C.)
68
4
Virgil
16. Aeneid (30-19 B.C.)
72
4
Juvenal
17. Satires (ca. A.D. 116)
76
3
Plutarch
18. The Life of Cato the Elder (ca. A.D. 116)
79
4
Suetonius
19. The Life of Augustus (ca. A.D. 122)
83
4
20. The Sermon on the Mount (ca. A.D. 28-35)
87
3
St. Paul
21. Epistle to the Romans (ca. A.D. 57)
90
5
PART II Medieval Europe
95
110
THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES
97
30
Tacitus
22. Germania (98)
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