Sources for the Shaping of Western Civilization

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Edited by Michael Burger

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This collection of diverse primary sources introduces students to the essential skill of reading historical sources.

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Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Third Edition

Introduction for Students: An Example of How to Analyze a Primary Source

1. The Descent of Ishtar
2. The Code of Hammurabi
3. The Enuma Elish
4. Hymn to Aton
5. First Book of Kings, 15-19
6. Book of Job 1-14, 21-24, 38-42
7. Homer, The Iliad
   *8. Plutarch, *Life of Solon

8. Plato, The Symposium
   *10. Thucydides, *History of the Peloponnesian War
   *11. Plutarch, *Life of Alexander the Great

9. Material Evidence Concerning the Greek World
   12.1. Vase (detail) (Sixth Century BC)
   12.2. The "Priam Painter," Hydria (c. 520-510 BC)
   12.3. Kylix (detail) (c. 520-510 BC)
   12.4. Kylix (detail), Attica (c. 490-480 BC)
   12.5. Column Krater, Attica (c. 460 BC)
   12.6. Funerary Vase (c. 440 BC)
   12.7.1. House on Slope of the Areopagus (Fifth Century BC): Probable Functions of Rooms
   12.7.2. House on Slope of the Areopagus (Fifth Century BC): Areas Used by Women and by Men
   12.8. Polycleitus, Doryphorus (c. 440-435 BC)
   12.9. Caryatid from the Erectheum, Athens (Roman copy; original late Fifth Century BC)
   12.10. Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Cnidos (c. 350 BC)
   12.11. Praxiteles, Hermes (c. 325 BC)
   12.12. Crouching Aphrodite (Hellenistic)
   12.13. Gaul (with His Wife) Killing Himself (c. 230-220 BC)
   12.14. The Pharaoh Sesostris I (?) (Egypt, Second Millennium BC)
   12.15. Queen Arsinoë II (Egypt, c. 210 BC)
   12.16. Queen Cleopatra (possibly Cleopatra VII) (Egypt, 200-30 BC)
   12.17. Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus of Rhodes, Lacoön and His Sons (c. 125 BC)
   12.18. Market Woman (First Century BC)

10. Vergil, The Aeneid
    *14. Augustus, *The Deeds of the Divine Augustus

11. Pliny the Younger, *Letters
    *15.1. To Junius Mauricus
    15.2. To Acilius
    15.3. To Trajan
    15.4. Trajan’s Reply
    15.5. To Trajan
    15.6. To Trajan
    15.7. Trajan’s Reply
    15.8. To Trajan
    15.9. Trajan’s Reply

12. Letter from Apion
13. Inscription from Mactar
14. Book of Matthew 3-9.32
15. John, Book of Revelation 15-20
16. Perpetua and Others, The Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua
17. Diocletian’s Edict on Prices

18. Augustine, Confessions
    *23. Tacitus, *De Germania

19. Sidonius Apollinaris, *Letters
    *24.1. To Donidius
    24.2. To Bishop Lupus
    24.3. To Magnus Felix
    24.4. To Ecdicius
    24.5. To Arbogast

20. Benedict of Nursia, The Rule

21. Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
    *27. The *Dooms of King Alfred

22. Gregory VII, Henry IV, and the German Bishops, Documents
    *28.1. Gregory VII, *The Dictatus Papae
    28.2. Letter of Gregory VII to Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
    28.3. Letter of Henry IV to Gregory VII
    28.4. Letter of Bishops in Germany to Gregory VII
    28.5. First Deposition and Banning of the Emperor Henry IV by Gregory VII

23. Speech of Urban II at the Council of Clermont: Two Accounts
    29.1. Account of Fulcher of Chartres
    29.2. Account of Robert the Monk

24. Fulcher of Chartres, Historia Hierosolymitana
25. Ibn al-Althir, The Complete History

26. Usamah Ibn-Munqidh, The Book of Contemplation

27. Two Letters from Crusaders
    33.1. Letter of Anselm of Ribemont to Manasses II, Archbishop of Reims
    33.2. Letter from Stephen, Count of Blois, to Adele, His Wife

28. Letter of Prester John

29. Magna Cartä

30. Documents from the County of Champagne
    36.1. Charter of the Count Thibaut III of Champagne
    36.2. Charter of Simon, lord of Châteauvillain
    36.3. Charter of Count Thibaut V to Renaud of Bar-le-Duc
    36.4. Decree of King Philip IV ("the fair") of France
    36.5. Notice from agents of King Philip IV of France
    36.6. Charter of Count Thibaut V
    36.7. Count Henry of Champagne establishes of village
    36.8. Announcement of Countess Blanche of Champagne and Count Thibaut IV of a tax on the Jews
    36.9. Countess Blanche of Castile’s announcement regarding women’s inheritance of castles
    36.10. Statement of nobles of Champagne regarding royal taxation

31. Robert Grosseteste, Letter to Margaret de Quency, countess of Winchester, regarding Jews and Tithes

32. Court Rolls of the Abbots of Ramsey and Battle
    38.1. Court Roll of the Abbot of Ramsey for the Manor of Elton
    38.2. Court Roll of the Abbot of Battle for the Manor of Brightwaltham

33. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
34. Ralph of Shrewsbury, Letter
35. City Officials of Cologne, Letter

36. English Statute of 1363 on Food and Clothing

37. Petrarch, *Letters of Familiar Intercourse
    *43.1. To His Friend Socrates
    43.2. To Tomasso da Messinä
    43.3. To Marcus Tullius Cicero

38. Christine de Pizan, The Book of the Body Politic
    *45. Niccolò Machiavelli, *The Prince

39. Desiderius Erasmus, Letters
    46.1. To Anne of Borselle
    46.2. To Jacobus Battus
    46.3. To Pope Leo X
    46.4. To Lambertus Grunnius
    46.5. Lambertus Grunnius to Erasmus
    46.6. To Cardinal Wolsey
    46.7. To Henry Bullock

40. Martin Luther, *Letters
    *47.1. To George Spalatin
    47.2. To Paul Speratus
    47.3. To George Spalatin
    47.4. To Wolfgang Reissenbusch
    47.5. To George Spalatin

41. Teresa of Avila, Spiritual Testimonies
    48.1. No. 22. Eucharistic experience
    48.2. No. 25. The nature of union
    48.3. No. 26. Do not renounce what awakens love
    48.4. No. 31. Spiritual Marriage
    48.5. No. 32 The way of suffering and love
    48.6. No. 47 The value of good works
    48.7. No. 64 Counsels for the Discalced Fathers

42. The Florentine Codex
    *50. *Articles of the Catholic League
43. Michel de Montaigne, Essays
    51.1. On Cannibals
    51.2. That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity

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