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Perspectives from the Past : Primary Sources in Western Civilizations - From the Ancient near East Through the Age of Absolutism

by: Brophy, James M.; Epstein, Steven; Nilan, Cat; Robertson, John; Safley, Thomas Max; Brophy, James M.

Perspectives from the Past : Primary Sources in Western Civilizations - From the Ancient near East Through the Age of Absolutism

by: Brophy, James M.; Epstein, Steven; Nilan, Cat; Robertson, John; Safley, Thomas Max; Brophy, James M.

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0393978214
Edition: 2nd
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Copyright: 04/01/2002
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Preface for Instructors

Preface for Students

xix

Where to Begin?

xxiv

The Origins of Western Civilizations in the Ancient Near East

(47)

from Atrahasis: An Account of the Great Flood

(9)

from The Epic of Gilgamesh

(9)

Two Images of Sumerian Rulership (c. 2480 B.C.E.)

(1)

from The Cursing of Akkad

(7)

``Hymn to the Nile''

(2)

The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 B.C.E.)

(1)

from Songs to Senusert III

(2)

from The Instructions of Ptah-hotep

(6)

from ``Songs of the Birdcatcher's Daughter''

(2)

from The Book of the Dead

(4)

Harper's Songs

(2)

The Growth of Empires in the Ancient Near East

(38)

Laws from Ancient Mesopotamia

(8)

from The Righteous Sufferer

(7)

Letters of Royal Women of the Old Babylonian Period

(2)

The Story of Sinuhe

(6)

``The Hymn of Victory of Thutmose III''

(2)

The Egyptian King and Subject Peoples (c. 1380 B.C.E.)

(1)

Akhenaton's ``Hymn to the Aton''

(3)

A Letter from Tell el-Amarna

(2)

from The Letters of Deir el-Medina

(4)

Cargo from the Ulu Burun Shipwreck (c. 1300 B.C.E.)

(1)

Gods and Empires: The Iron Age Near East

(51)

``The Journey of Wen-Amon to Phoenicia''

(1)

Egyptian Battle with the Sea Peoples (c. 1150 B.C.E.)

(5)

from The Book of Ezekiel: Phoenician Trade in the Hebrew Bible

(1)

from The Book of I Kings: Solomon's Construction of Yahweh's Temple in Jerusalem

(7)

from The Annals of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria

102

(4)

The Assyrian Attack on Lachish (701 B.C.E.)

106

(1)

Letters from Diviners to the Assyrian King

107

(1)

The Cylinder Inscription of Cyrus

108

(2)

from The Histories: Customs of the Persians

110

(3)

Herodotus

from The Book of Genesis: Noah and the Flood

113

(3)

from The Torah: Laws

116

(6)

from The Book of Amos: Prophecies

122

(2)

from The Book of Jeremiah: Prophecies

124

(5)

from The Book of Isaiah: Prophecies

129

(5)

An Aramaic Letter from Elephantine

134

(3)

The Greek Experiment

137

(49)

from The Iliad

138

(1)

Homer

Origins of the Greek Alphabet (c. 500 B.C.E.)

139

(4)

from Works and Days

143

(3)

Hesiod

Poems of Sappho of Lesbos and Semonides of Amorgos

146

(2)

Spartan Society and Values

148

(7)

from The Histories: The Second Persian Invasion of Greece

155

(6)

Herodotus

from The Peloponnesian Wars

161

(5)

Thucydides

from Oeconomicus

166

(5)

Xenophon

from Antigone

171

(9)

Sophocles

Vase Depicting a Slave (c. 450 B.C.E.)

180

(1)

from ``Apology''

181

(5)

Plato

The Expansion of Greece

186

(42)

from The Republic

188

(8)

Plato

from Politics

196

(4)

Aristotle

from ``Life of Alexander''

200

(6)

Plutarch

Eratosthenes' Map of the World (c. 200 B.C.E.)

206

(1)

Hellenistic Architecture in the Near East (c. 175 C.E.)

207

(1)

from The First Book of Maccabees

208

(3)

from Idylls

211

(1)

Theocritus

Principal Doctrines

212

(4)

Epicurus

from On the Nature of Things

216

(3)

Lucretius

from The Manual: Stoicism

219

(6)

Epictetus

Short Poems

225

(3)

Hellenistic Authors

Roman Civilization

228

(48)

from The Twelve Tables

229

(4)

from Lives

233

(6)

Plutarch

from On Slavery in the Later Republic

239

(2)

Diodorus Siculus

from On the Laws

241

(4)

Cicero

from The Sixteen Satires

245

(1)

Juvenal

A Scene from a Roman-Era Italian Harbor (c. 80 C.E.)

246

(8)

from The Loves

254

(2)

Ovid

from The Satyricon

256

(3)

Petronius

Management of a Large Estate

259

(5)

Columella

from The Gospel of Matthew

264

(4)

from Germania

268

(1)

Tacitus

A Mummy from the Time of the Roman Empire (100 C.E.)

269

(7)

Christianity and the Transformation of the Roman World

276

(43)

from An Oration

277

(3)

Constantine

from The Theodosian Code: Roman Law

280

(1)

San Paolo Fuori Le Muri, Rome (c. 385 C.E.)

281

(11)

Ignatius of Antioch Letter to the Romans

292

(2)

The Martyrdom of Polycarp

294

(5)

from The Rule

299

(4)

St. Benedict

from The History

303

(5)

Ammianus Marcellinus

Gregory of Tours from History of the Franks

308

(5)

from City of God

313

(5)

St. Augustine

Mosaics of Justinian and Theodora, Church of San Vita, Ravenna (c. 500 C.E.)

318

(1)

Rome's Three Heirs: The Byzantine Islamic, and Early Medieval Worlds

319

(39)

from Secret History

321

(2)

Procopius

The Armenian History

323

(4)

Sebeos

from The Quran

327

(6)

Muhammed

The History

333

(1)

Al-Tabari

Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (c. 690 C.E.)

334

(4)

from A History of the English Church and People

338

(3)

Bede

from The Lombard Laws: Rothair's Edict

341

(3)

from The Life of Charlemagne

344

(5)

Einhard

Vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem (c. 900)

349

(1)

Monastic Clamors, Curses, and Excommunications

350

(1)

``The Wanderer'': Anglo-Saxon Poetry

351

(2)

from Egil's Saga: Viking Literature

353

(5)

The Expansion of Europe: Economy, Society, and Politics in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300

358

(40)

The Statutes of Lorris

359

(3)

The Charter of Liberties for St. Omer

362

(2)

The Last Will and Testament of Oberto Lomellino

364

(2)

Medieval Commercial Contracts and Reports

366

(7)

from The Alexiad

373

(4)

Anna Comnena

from The Life of Saint Louis

377

(5)

Jean de Joinville

Illuminated Bible, France (c. 1230)

382

(1)

The Magna Carta: English Constitutional Law

383

(8)

Ekkehard and Uta, Naumberg Cathedral Statues (c. 1250)

391

(1)

from Las Siete Partidas: Castilian Law Code

392

(5)

The Medieval Sexual Decision-Making Process (c. 1275)

397

(1)

The High Middle Ages: Religious and Intellectual Developments, 1000-1300

398

(45)

``To Herman of Metz, in Defense of the Papal Policy toward Henry IV''

399

(6)

Gregory VII

Papal Bull Unam Sanctam

405

(2)

Pope Boniface VIII

Otto of Freising from The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa

407

(1)

Salisbury Cathedral (1258, spire 1330)

408

(3)

from Carmina Burana

411

(2)

from The Rule of 1223 and The Testament

413

(5)

St. Francis

Hildegard of Bingen Letter to the Clergy of Mainz

418

(1)

Gold and Silver Jeweled Book Cover (c. 1200-1232)

419

(4)

Stephen of Bourbon from On the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit

423

(2)

from The Golden Legend

425

(7)

Jacobus de Voragine

from Summa Theologica

432

(7)

St. Thomas Aquinas

from The Poem of the Cid

439

(4)

The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500

443

(59)

from The Muqaddimah

445

(6)

Ibn Khaldun

from The Decameron

451

(1)

Giovanni Boccaccio

The Triumph of Death (c. 1340)

452

(5)

from The Canterbury Tales

457

(18)

Geoffrey Chaucer

from The Church

475

(4)

Jan Hus

from The Divine Comedy

479

(5)

Dante Alighieri

from The Book of the City of Ladies

484

(5)

Christine de Pisan

The Arnolfini Marriage (1434)

489

(1)

from The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc

490

(4)

from Commentaries

494

(6)

Pope Plus II

The Distribution of Wealth in Tuscany in 1427

500

(2)

Commerce, Conquest, and Colonization, 1300-1600

502

(45)

William of Rubruck from On the Mongols

504

(7)

from The Travels

511

(5)

Ibn Battuta

from Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks

516

(6)

Doukas

from History of the House of Osman

522

(2)

Asikpasazade

``The Tale of the White Cowl'': A Russian Tale

524

(5)

Voyage to Africa

529

(5)

Alvise da Mosto

Letter on His First Voyage

534

(1)

Christopher Columbus

Sapi-Portuguese Salt Cellar (c. 1500)

535

(5)

``The Letter Which the King, Our Lord, Wrote to the King and Queen of Castile, His Kin, Concerning the News of India''

540

(1)

Manuel I

Conquest of Mexico, Florentine Codex (c. 1555)

541

(6)

The Civilization of the Renaissance, c.1350-1550

547

(40)

from I Libri della Famiglia

548

(5)

Leon Battista Alberti

from The Autobiography

553

(3)

Benvenuto Cellini

from The Lives of the Artists

556

(4)

Giorgio Vassari

from The Notebooks

560

(3)

Leonardo da Vinci

from The Book of the Courtier

563

(1)

Baldesar Castiglione

Last Supper (1498)

564

(5)

Portrait of Pope Leo X and Two Cardinals (1518)

569

(1)

from ``Oration On the Dignity of Man''

570

(2)

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

from The Prince

572

(4)

Niccolo Machiavelli

Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdam of from Ten Colloquies

576

(5)

from Utopia

581

(6)

Sir Thomas More

The Protestant Reformation

587

(41)

from A Venetian Ambassador's Report on the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

588

(2)

Giovanni Michiel

St. Ignatius of Loyola from The Spiritual Exercises

590

(3)

from The Trial of Klaus Hottinger of Zurich: Iconoclasm

593

(3)

St. Teresa of Avila from The Life of Teresa of Jesus

596

(2)

The Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia

598

(1)

Sebastian Lotzer

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1652)

599

(4)

from Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent

603

(7)

from Draft Ecclesiastical Ordinances, September and October 1541

610

(5)

John Calvin

from ``Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation''

615

(5)

Martin Luther

``Statement of Grievances,'' Diet of Worms, 1521

620

(1)

The Godly Mill (1521)

621

(5)

The Oath of Allegiance

626

(2)

Religious Wars and State Building, 1540-1660

628

(52)

from On Sovereignty

629

(6)

Jean Bodin

from ``Instructions of the Magistracy of Health in Florence for Justices in the Countryside* * *''

635

(1)

The Surrender of Breda (1635)

636

(3)

from A Venetian Ambassador's Report on Spain

639

(3)

Gianfrancesco Morosini

from Discoverie of Witchcraft

642

(7)

Reginald Scot

from Pensees

649

(3)

Blaise Pascal

from ``The First Anniversarie''

652

(3)

John Donne

from Simplicissimus

655

(6)

Hans Jakob Christosh von Grimmelshausen

from Leviathan

661

(6)

Thomas Hobbes

from ``It Is Folly to Measure the True and False by Our Own Capacity''

667

(3)

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

from ``Of Cannibals''

670

(5)

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

from A Voyage into the Levant

675

(1)

Henry Blount

The Plundering and Burning of a Village, a Hanging, and Peasants Avenue Themselves (1633)

676

(4)

The Economy and Society of Early Modern Europe

680

(55)

from A Venetian Ambassador's Report on the Ottoman Empire

682

(2)

Lorenzo Bernardo

from Discourse on England's Treasure by Forraign Trade

684

(5)

Thomas Mun

The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild (1632)

689

(1)

from The Citizen Who Apes the Nobleman

690

(5)

Jean Baptiste Poquelin

from Patriarcha

695

(1)

Robert Filmer

The Meeting in Lyons (1625)

696

(5)

A Memorandum, 1669, and A Memorandum, 1670

701

(3)

Jean Baptiste Colbert

from Reflections on the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth

704

(7)

Anne Robert Jacques Turgot

from Of Domesticall Duties

711

(1)

William Goudge

Marquis de Vauban and Cure of Rumegies

711

(4)

from A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies

715

(3)

Abbe Guillaume

Thomas Raynal

from The Wealth of Nations

718

(9)

Adam Smith

from The Diary

727

(4)

Samuel Pepys

Coffee House Society

731

(4)

The Age of Absolutism, 1660-1789

735

(37)

Louis XIV and the Duc de Saint-Simon Revocation of the Edict of Nantes

736

(3)

from Two Treatises on Government

739

(1)

John Locke

Palace and Gardens of Versailles (1668)

740

(10)

from Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture

750

(6)

Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

Les Meninas (1656)

756

(1)

from Historical Memoirs

757

(6)

Duc De Saint-Simon

Frederick II, The Great from Antimachiavell

763

(4)

from On the Law of War and Peace

767

(5)

Hugo Grotius

Credits

772

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