Early Modern Europe

by Boyer, John W.

• ISBN13: 9780226069487
• ISBN10: 0226069486
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1987-11-15
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

The University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization (nine volumes) makes available to students and teachers a unique selection of primary documents, many in new translations. These readings, prepared for the highly praised Western civilization sequence at the University of Chicago, were chosen by an outstanding group of scholars whose experience teaching that course spans almost four decades. Each volume includes rarely anthologized selections as well as standard, more familiar texts; a bibliography of recommended parallel readings; and introductions providing background for the selections. Beginning with Periclean Athens and concluding with twentieth-century Europe, these source materials enable teachers and students to explore a variety of critical approaches to important events and themes in Western history. Individual volumes provide essential background reading for courses covering specific eras and periods. The complete nine-volume series is ideal for general courses in history and Western civilization sequences.

Table of Contents

Series Editor Foreword

Note on Volume 6

General Introduction

Cohesion and Division: Political Thought and the Making of States

Two Northern European States

Sir Thomas Smith,De Republica Anglorum

Gregory King,Naturall and Political Observations upon the State and Condition of England

Sir William Temple,Observations upon the United Provinces of the Netherlands

The Justification of Resistance

John Knox,The Appellation to the Nobility

Phillippe Duplessis-Mornay,Vindiciae contra Tyrannos

Juan de Mariana,The King and the Education of the King

John Lilburne,A Work of the Beast Allegiance and Sovereignty

James VI and I,The Trew Law of Free Monarchies

Jean Bodin,Six Books of a Commonweale

The English Revolution

The King of Parliament

The Calling of the Long Parliament (Selections from Clarendon)

The Root and Branch Petition (11 December 1640)

The Triennial Act (15 February 1641)

The Grand Remonstrance

The King's Answer to the Grand Remonstrance

From Civil War to Revolution

The Nineteen Propositions (1 June 1642)

The King's Answer to the Nineteen Propositions

J. Sprigge,Anglia Rediviva(The Battle of Naseby)

Oliver Cromwell to Speaker Lenthall (14 June 1645)

The Declaration of 30 April 1646

The Army's Declaration of 14 June 1647

An Agreement of the People

The Putney Debates

The King and the Monarchy

The Army Agreement (15 January 1649)

The Trial of Charles I

King Charles, His Speech on the Scaffold

John Gauden,Eikon Basilike

John Milton,Eikonoklastes From Commonwealth to Restoration

The Establishment of the Commonwealth

The Adultery Act (1650)

The Instrument of Government

Sir Henry Vane,A Healing Question Propounded

Cromwell's Speech to the Parliament of 1656 (17 September 1656)

The Declaration of Breda

The Scientific Revolution

The New Cosmos and the Old

Galileo Galilei

Agostino Scilla,Vain Speculations Undeceived by the Senses

Blaise Pascal,PenséesXV, Transition from Knowledge of Man to Knowledge of God

Roger Cotes, Preface to Newton'sPrincipia

Isaac Newton,Principia Mathematica

The Institutions of Science

Letters and Memoranda to Colbert

Academy of Sciences (Académie royale des sciences), Statutes

Index

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