Sources of the West, Volume 1

<p><strong>Preface</strong></p> <p><strong>How to Read a Document</strong></p> <p><strong>Part I: The Origins of Western Civilization and the Classical World </strong></p> <p><strong>Chapter 1 </strong>Creation Epics</p> <p>The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2000 B.C.E.)</p> <p>The Creation Epic (ca. 2000 b.c.e.)</p> <p>The Book of Genesis (ca. 10th–6th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>Hesiod, Works and Days (ca. 700 B.C.E.)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 2 </strong>The Ancient Near East</p> <p>Code of Hammurabi (early 18th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>The Book of the Dead (ca. 16th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>The Book of Exodus (ca. 10th–6th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>The Book of Isaiah (ca. 8th–6th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>The Legacy of Cyrus the Great: The Cyrus Cylinder (6^th century B.C.E.) and The Book of Ezra (5^th century B.C.E.)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 3 </strong>Ancient and Classical Greece</p> <p>Homer, Iliad (9th–8th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>Sappho of Lesbos, Poems (ca. 600 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (ca. 400 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Xenophon, The Spartan Constitution (ca. 360 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Plato, Apology (399 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Plato, The Republic (ca. 327 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Aristotle, Politics (4th century B.C.E.)</p> <p>Plutarch, The Life of Alexander (ca. C.E. 116)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 4 </strong>The Roman World</p> <p>Polybius, The Roman Constitution (ca. 150 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Cicero, The Trial of Aulus Cluentius Habitus (66 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Virgil, Aeneid (30–19 B.C.E.)</p> <p>Juvenal, Satires (ca. C.E. 116)</p> <p>Plutarch, The Life of Cato the Elder (ca. C.E. 116)</p> <p>Suetonius, The Life of Augustus (ca. C.E. 122)</p> <p>The Sermon on the Mount (ca. C.E. 28–35)</p> <p>St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans (ca. C.E. 57)</p> <p><strong>Part II: Medieval Europe </strong></p> <p><strong>Chapter 5 </strong>The Early Middle Ages</p> <p>Tacitus, Germania (98)</p> <p>Eusebius, In Praise of Constantine (336)</p> <p>Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (413–426)</p> <p>Benedict of Nursia, Rule of Saint Benedict (ca. 535–540)</p> <p>The Burgundian Code (ca. 474)</p> <p>Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks (ca. 581–591)</p> <p>Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of England (731)</p> <p>Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne (ca. 829–836)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 6 </strong>Islam and the Eastern Empire</p> <p>Justinian, Code (529–565)</p> <p>Procopius, Secret History (ca. 560)</p> <p>The Koran (7th century)</p> <p>Ibn Ishaq, The Life of Muhammad (after 733)</p> <p>Michael Psellus, Chronographia (ca. 1075–1077)</p> <p>Ibn Al-Qalanisi, The Damascus Chronicle (ca. 1150)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 7 </strong>The High Middle Ages</p> <p>Feudal Documents (11th–13th centuries)</p> <p>Bernard of Angers, Miracles of St. Foy (ca. 1010)</p> <p>Fulcher of Chartres, The First Crusade and the Siege of Jerusalem (1101–1127)</p> <p>The Song of Roland (ca. 1100)</p> <p>Magna Carta (1215)</p> <p>Francis of Assisi, Admonitions (ca. 1220)</p> <p>Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica (1266–1273)</p> <p>Dante, The Divine Comedy (ca. 1320)</p> <p>Catherine of Siena, Letters (1376)</p> <p>Christine de Pisan, The Book of the City of Ladies (ca. 1405)</p> <p>Margaret Paston, Letters (1441–1448)</p> <p><strong>Part III</strong>: <strong>Renaissance and Reformation 215</strong></p> <p><strong>Chapter 8 </strong>The Renaissance</p> <p>Francesco Petrarca, Letters (ca. 1372)</p> <p>Leon Battista Alberti, On the Family (1435–1444)</p> <p>Giorgio Vasari, The Life of Leonardo da Vinci (1550)</p> <p>Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)</p> <p>Desiderius Erasmus, In Praise of Folly (1509)</p> <p>Sir Thomas More, Utopia (1516)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 9 </strong>The New Worlds and the Age of Exploration</p> <p>Ibn Battuta, Travels in Africa (1354)</p> <p>Christopher Columbus, Letter from the First Voyage (1493)</p> <p>Gomes de Zurara, Chronicle of Guinea (1453)</p> <p>Bartolomé de Las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies (1566)</p> <p>Bernal Díaz, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (1552–1568)</p> <p>Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, The History of the Great and Mightie Kingdom of China (1585)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 10 </strong>Religious Reform</p> <p>Bernard Gui, A Manual for Inquisitors (1331)</p> <p>Martin Luther, The Freedom of a Christian (1520) and Of Marriage and Celibacy (1566)</p> <p>John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1534) and Catechism (ca. 1540)</p> <p>Francis Xavier, Letter from India (1543)</p> <p>Ignatius Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548)</p> <p>Teresa of Ávila, The Life of St. Teresa (1611)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 11 </strong>The Early Modern World</p> <p>Anonymous, Lazarillo de Tormes (1554)</p> <p>The Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia (1524); Martin Luther, Admonition to Peace (1525)</p> <p>Marguerite de Navarre, Heptameron (1558)</p> <p>Philippe Duplessis-Mornay, A Defense of Liberty Against Tyrants (1579)</p> <p>Magdalena and Balthasar Paumgartner, Letters (1592–1596)</p> <p><strong>Part IV:</strong> <strong>The Ancien Régime</strong></p> <p><strong>Chapter 12 </strong>The Wars of Religion</p> <p>Henry IV, The Edict of Nantes (1598)</p> <p>Cardinal Richelieu, The Political Testament (1638)</p> <p>Hans von Grimmelshausen, Simplicissimus (1669)</p> <p><strong>Chapter 13 </strong>Subjects and Sovereigns</p> <p>James I, True Law of a Free Monarchy (1598)</p> <p>Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)</p> <p>John Locke, Second Treatise of Government (1689)</p> <p>The English Bill of Rights (1689)</p> <p>Duc de Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694–1723)</p> <p>Napoleon Bonaparte, The Napoleonic Code (The French Civil Code) (1804)</p> <p><strong>Acknowledgments </strong></p>