Perspectives from the Past : Primary Sources in Western Civilizations - From the Ancient near East Through the Age of Absolutism,9780393978216

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

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Pub. Date: 2002-04-01
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Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors xv
Preface for Students xix
Where to Begin? xxiv
The Origins of Western Civilizations in the Ancient Near East
1(47)
from Atrahasis: An Account of the Great Flood
3(9)
from The Epic of Gilgamesh
12(9)
Two Images of Sumerian Rulership (c. 2480 B.C.E.)
21(1)
from The Cursing of Akkad
22(7)
``Hymn to the Nile''
29(2)
The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 B.C.E.)
31(1)
from Songs to Senusert III
32(2)
from The Instructions of Ptah-hotep
34(6)
from ``Songs of the Birdcatcher's Daughter''
40(2)
from The Book of the Dead
42(4)
Harper's Songs
46(2)
The Growth of Empires in the Ancient Near East
48(38)
Laws from Ancient Mesopotamia
50(8)
from The Righteous Sufferer
58(7)
Letters of Royal Women of the Old Babylonian Period
65(2)
The Story of Sinuhe
67(6)
``The Hymn of Victory of Thutmose III''
73(2)
The Egyptian King and Subject Peoples (c. 1380 B.C.E.)
75(1)
Akhenaton's ``Hymn to the Aton''
76(3)
A Letter from Tell el-Amarna
79(2)
from The Letters of Deir el-Medina
81(4)
Cargo from the Ulu Burun Shipwreck (c. 1300 B.C.E.)
85(1)
Gods and Empires: The Iron Age Near East
86(51)
``The Journey of Wen-Amon to Phoenicia''
88(1)
Egyptian Battle with the Sea Peoples (c. 1150 B.C.E.)
89(5)
from The Book of Ezekiel: Phoenician Trade in the Hebrew Bible
94(1)
from The Book of I Kings: Solomon's Construction of Yahweh's Temple in Jerusalem
95(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
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