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Tables of Contents for Sources of the West
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
ix
How to Read a Document
xiii
Part I The Origins of Western Civilization and the Classical World
Creation Epics
1
1
The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.)
2
2
The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 B.C.)
4
6
The Book of Genesis (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.)
10
5
Hesiod, Works and Days (ca. 700 B.C.)
15
7
The Ancient Near East
21
1
Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.)
22
3
The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.)
25
3
The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th--6th century B.C.)
28
4
The Book of Isaiah (ca. 8th--6th century B.C.)
32
6
Ancient and Classical Greece
37
1
Homer, Iliad (9th--8th century B.C.)
38
3
Sappho of Lesbos, Poems (ca. 600 B.C.)
41
2
Herodotus, History (ca. 450 B.C.)
43
3
Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca. 400 B.C.)
46
5
Plato, Apology (399 B.C.)
51
5
Plato, The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.)
56
9
Aristotle, Politics (4th century B.C.)
65
5
The Roman World
69
1
Cicero, The Trial of Aulus Cluentius Habitus (66 B.C.)
70
4
Virgil, Aeneid (30--19 B.C.)
74
4
Juvenal, Satires (ca. A.D. 116)
78
3
Plutarch, The Life of Cato the Elder (ca. A.D. 116)
81
4
Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (ca. A.D. 122)
85
4
The Sermon on the Mount (ca. A.D. 28--35)
89
3
St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans (ca. A.D. 57)
92
6
Part II Medieval Europe
The Early Middle Ages
97
1
Tacitus, Germania (98)
98
3
Eusebius, In Praise of Constantine (336)
101
5
Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413--46)
106
4
Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict (ca. 535--540)
110
4
The Burgundian Code (ca. 474)
114
6
Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks (ca. 581--591)
120
3
Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of England (731)
123
4
Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829--836)
127
5
Islam and the Eastern Empire
131
1
Justinian, Code (529--565)
132
4
Procopius, Secret History (ca. 560)
136
4
The Koran (7th century)
140
4
Michael Psellus, Chronographia (ca. 1070)
144
5
Ibn Al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle (ca. 1150)
149
5
The High Middle Ages
153
1
Feudal Documents (11th--13th centuries)
154
4
Bernard of Angers, Miracles of St. Foy (ca. 1010)
158
5
The Song of Roland (ca. 1100)
163
4
Magna Carta (1215)
167
3
Francis of Assisi, Admonitions (ca. 1220)
170
5
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1266--1273)
175
5
Dante, The Divine Comedy (ca. 1320)
180
4
Catherine of Siena, Letters (1376)
184
5
Jean Froissart, Chronicles (ca. 1400)
189
6
Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405)
195
2
Margaret Paston, Letters (1441--1448)
197
7
Witchcraft Documents (15th century)
204
6
Part III Renaissance and Reformation
The Renaissance
209
1
Francesco Petrarca, Letters (ca. 1372)
210
5
Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family (1435--1444)
215
6
Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550)
221
4
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
225
4
Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509)
229
4
Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
233
4
Claude de Seyssel, The Monarchy of France (1515)
237
5
The New Worlds
241
1
Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage (1493)
242
4
Ludovico di Varthema, Travels (ca. 1508)
246
3
Bartolome de Las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies (1566)
249
4
Bernal Diaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552--1568)
253
5
Religious Reform
257
1
Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520) and Of Marriage and Celibacy (1566)
258
6
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534) and Catechism (ca. 1540)
264
8
Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548)
272
4
Teresa of Avila, The Life of Saint Teresa (1611)
276
6
The Early Modern World
281
1
Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)
282
3
The Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia (1524) and Martin Luther, Admonition to Peace (1525)
285
6
Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron (1558)
291
4
Magdalena and Balthasar Paumgartner, Letters (1592--1596)
295
4
Anonymous, The Debate About Women: Hic Mulier and Haec Vir (1620)
299
5
Part IV The Ancien Regime
The Wars of Religion
303
1
Francois Hotman, Francogallia (1573)
304
3
Henry IV, The Edict of Nantes (1598)
307
3
William of Orange, Apology (1580)
310
4
Cardinal Richelieu, The Political Testament (1638)
314
3
Hans von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1669)
317
7
Subjects and Sovereigns
323
1
James I, True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598)
324
5
Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579)
329
5
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)
334
4
Sir William Clarke, The Putney Debates (1647)
338
6
Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694--1723)
344
5
Acknowledgments
349
6
Photo Credits
355