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| Preface | |
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| Introduction: Working with Historical Sources | |
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| Foundations of Western Civilization, to 500 B.C.E. | |
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| King Hammurabi, The Code of Hammurabi (Early Eighteenth Century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Book of Exodus, Chapters 19-24 (c. Tenth-Sixth Centuries B.C.E.) | |
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| Inscription Honoring Cyrus, King of Persia (r. c. 557-530 B.C.E.) | |
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| Tyrtaeus of Sparta and Solon of Athens, Poems (Seventh-Sixth Centuries B.C.E.) | |
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| Sappho of Lesbos, Poems (Sixth Century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Greek Golden Age, c. 500-400 B.C.E. | |
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| Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles (429 B.C.E.) | |
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| Plato, The Apology of Socrates (399 B.C.E.) | |
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| Euphiletus, A Husband Speaks in His Own Defense (c. 400 B.C.E.) | |
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| Overhead Views of a House on the Slope of the Areopagus (Fifth Century B.C.E.) | |
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| Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) | |
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| From the Classical to the Hellenistic World, c. 400-30 B.C.E. | |
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| Zeno, Egyptian Official, Records (259-250 B.C.E.) | |
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| Funerary Inscriptions and Epitaphs (Fifth-First Centuries B.C.E.) | |
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| Map of Ancient Alexandria (Second Half of First Century B.C.E.) | |
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| Epicurus, Letter to a Friend (Late Third Century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Book of I Maccabees, Chapter 8 (Second Century B.C.E.) | |
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| The Rise of Rome, c. 753-44 B.C.E. | |
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| The Twelve Tables (451-449 B.C.E.) | |
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| Etruscan Statuette of a Rider (c. 434-400 B.C.E.) and Roman Bust of Lucius Junius Brutus (c. 300 B.C.E.) | |
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| Roman Women Demonstrate against the Oppian Law (195 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Gracchan Reforms (133 B.C.E.) | |
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| Julius Caesar, The Gallic War (52 B.C.E.) | |
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| The Roman Empire, c. 44 B.C.E.-284 C.E. | |
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| Augustus, The Accomplishments of Augustus (14 C.E.) | |
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| Notices and Graffiti Describing Life in Pompeii (First Century C.E.) | |
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| Plan of Stabian Baths and Seneca, Letters 56.1, 2 (First Century C.E.) | |
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| Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (70 C.E.) | |
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| Pliny the Younger, Letters (Early Second Century C.E.) | |
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| The Transformation of the Roman Empire, c. 284-600 C.E. | |
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| Arius, Letter to Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria (c. 320 C.E.) and The Nicene Creed (325 C.E.) | |
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| Quintas Aurelias Symmachus and St. Ambrose, The Altar of Victory Sparks a Religious Debate (384 C.E.) | |
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| St. Jerome, Letter 107 (403 C.E.) | |
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| The Burgundian Code (c. 475-525 C.E.) | |
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| Procopius, Buildings (c. 553-554 C.E.) | |
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| The Heirs of the Roman Empire, 600-750 | |
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| Theophanes Confessor, Chronicle (Ninth Century) | |
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| Qur'an, Suras 1, 53, 98 (c. 610-632) | |
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| Islamic Terms of Peace (633-643) | |
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| Pope Gregory the Great, Letters (598-601) | |
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| The Life of Lady Balthild, Queen of the Franks (Late Seventh Century) | |
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| Unity and Diversity in Three Societies, 750-1050 | |
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| General Capitulary for the Missi (802) | |
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| Liutprand of Cremona, Report to Otto I (968) | |
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| Digenis Akritas (Tenth or Eleventh Century) | |
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| Ahmad al-Ya`qubi, Kitab al-buldan (Ninth Century) | |
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| Fulbert of Chartres, Letter to William of Aquitaine (1020) | |
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| Renewal and Reform, 1050-1200 | |
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| Urban Charters of Jaca, Spain (c. 1077), and Lorris, France (1155) | |
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| Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII, Sources of the Investiture of Conflict (1076) | |
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| The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1085-1086) | |
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| Medieval University Life (Twelfth-Early Thirteenth Centuries) | |
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| St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, Selected Writings (Thirteenth Century) | |
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| An Age of Confidence, 1200-1340 | |
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| Abbot Suger, The Abbey Church of St.-Denis (1144) | |
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| Hadewijch of Brabant, Letters and Poems of a Female Mystic (1220-1240) | |
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| Dante Alighieri, Human and Divine Love (Late Thirteenth-Early Fourteenth Centuries) | |
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| Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295) and Rolls of Parliament, Petitions and Answers (1290-1305) | |
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| Guyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1246) | |
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| Crisis and Renaissance, 1340-1500 | |
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| The Black Death (Fourteenth Century) | |
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| Thomas Walsingham, Peasant Rebels in London (1381) | |
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| Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496) | |
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| Bernardino of Siena, An Italian Preacher: Sins against Nature (1380-1444) | |
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| Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of the Discovery of Guinea (c. 1453) | |
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| Struggles over Beliefs, 1500-1648 | |
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| Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520) | |
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| Saint Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553) | |
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| Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of a Simpleton (1668-1669) | |
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| Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598) | |
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| Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) | |
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| The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652) | |
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| State Building and the Search for Order, 1648-1690 | |
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| Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694-1723) | |
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| British Parliament, The English Bill of Rights (1689) | |
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| Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670) | |
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| A True and Exact Relation of the Raising of the Siege of Vienna (1683) | |
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| Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves (1678) | |
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| The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690-1740 | |
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| Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789) | |
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| Tsar Peter I, Letter to His Son, Alexei (October 11, 1715), and Alexei's Response (October 31, 1715) | |
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| Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721) | |
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| Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706) | |
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| Pietist Spiritual Songbook (1705) | |