Sources for the History of Western Civilization, Volume I

From Antiquity to the Mid-Eighteenth Century, Second Edition
Herausgeber: Burger, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents without unnecessary editorial intervention.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• 2nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 191mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1134g
• ISBN-13: 9781442609310
• ISBN-10: 1442609311
• Artikelnr.: 42696253

Autorenporträt

Edited by Michael Burger

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the First 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
9 Plato, The Symposium
10 Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
Plutarch, Life of Alexander the Great
12 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 (II?) (Egypt, c. 170 BC)
12.17 Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus of Rhodes, Lacoön and His Sons
(c. 125 BC)
12.18 Market Woman (First Century BC)
13 Vergil, The Aeneid
14 Augustus, The Deeds of the Divine Augustus
15 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
16 Inscription From Mactar
17 Book of Matthew 3–9.32
18 John, Book of Revelation 15–20
19 Perpetua and Others, The Martyrdom of Saint Perpetua
20 Augustine, Confessions
21 Tacitus, De Germania
22 Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters
22.1 To Donidius
22.2 To Bishop Lupus
22.3 To Magnus Felix
22.4 To Ecdicius
22.5 To Arbogast
23 Benedict of Nursia, The Rule
24 Einhard, Life of Charlemagne
25 The Dooms of King Alfred
26 Gregory VII, Henry IV, and the German Bishops, Documents
26.1 Gregory VII, The Dictatus Papae
26.2 Letter of Gregory VII to Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
26.3 Letter of Henry IV to Gregory VII
26.4 Letter of Bishops in Germany to Gregory VII
26.5 First Deposition and Banning of the Emperor Henry IV by Gregory VII
27 Speech of Urban II at the Council of Clermont: Two Accounts
27.1 Account of Fulcher of Chartres
27.2 Account of Robert the Monk
28 Two Letters from Crusaders
28.1 Letter of Anselm of Ribemont to Manasses II, Archbishop of Reims
28.2 Letter from Stephen, Count of Blois, to Adele, His Wife
29 Magna Carta
30 Court Rolls of the Abbots of Ramsey and Battle
30.1 Court Roll of the Abbot of Ramsey for the Manor of Elton
30.2 Court Roll of the Abbot of Battle for the Manor of Brightwaltham
31 Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles
32 Ralph of Shrewsbury, Letter
33 City Officials of Cologne, Letter
34 The Statute of Laborers
35 English Statute of 1363 on Food and Clothing
36 Petrarch, Letters of Familiar Intercourse
36.1 To His Friend Socrates
36.2 To Tomasso da Messina
36.3 To Marcus Tullius Cicero
37 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
38 Desiderius Erasmus, Letters
38.1 To Anne of Borselle
38.2 To Jacobus Battus
38.3 To Pope Leo X
38.4 To Lambertus Grunnius
38.5 Lambertus Grunnius to Erasmus
38.6 To Cardinal Wolsey
38.7 To Henry Bullock
39 Martin Luther, Letters
39.1 To George Spalatin
39.2 To Paul Speratus
39.3 To George Spalatin
39.4 To Wolfgang Reissenbusch
39.5 To George Spalatin
40 Articles of the Catholic League
41 Michel de Montaigne, Essays
41.1 On Cannibals
41.2 That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity
42 The Code Noir
43 John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
44 Isaac Newton, The Principia
45 Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason
Sources
Index of Topics