Perspectives from the Past : Primary Sources in Western Civilizations - From the Ancient near East Through the Age of Absolutism

by Brophy, James M.; Epstein, Steven; Nilan, Cat; Robertson, John; Safley, Thomas Max; Brophy, James M.

• ISBN13: 9780393978216
• ISBN10: 0393978214
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-04-01
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc

Table of Contents

Preface for Instructors	xv
Preface for Students	xix
Where to Begin?	xxiv
The Origins of Western Civilizations in the Ancient Near East	1	(47)
from Atrahasis: An Account of the Great Flood	3	(9)
from The Epic of Gilgamesh	12	(9)
Two Images of Sumerian Rulership (c. 2480 B.C.E.)	21	(1)
from The Cursing of Akkad	22	(7)
``Hymn to the Nile''	29	(2)
The Narmer Palette (c. 3100 B.C.E.)	31	(1)
from Songs to Senusert III	32	(2)
from The Instructions of Ptah-hotep	34	(6)
from ``Songs of the Birdcatcher's Daughter''	40	(2)
from The Book of the Dead	42	(4)
Harper's Songs	46	(2)
The Growth of Empires in the Ancient Near East	48	(38)
Laws from Ancient Mesopotamia	50	(8)
from The Righteous Sufferer	58	(7)
Letters of Royal Women of the Old Babylonian Period	65	(2)
The Story of Sinuhe	67	(6)
``The Hymn of Victory of Thutmose III''	73	(2)
The Egyptian King and Subject Peoples (c. 1380 B.C.E.)	75	(1)
Akhenaton's ``Hymn to the Aton''	76	(3)
A Letter from Tell el-Amarna	79	(2)
from The Letters of Deir el-Medina	81	(4)
Cargo from the Ulu Burun Shipwreck (c. 1300 B.C.E.)	85	(1)
Gods and Empires: The Iron Age Near East	86	(51)
``The Journey of Wen-Amon to Phoenicia''	88	(1)
Egyptian Battle with the Sea Peoples (c. 1150 B.C.E.)	89	(5)
from The Book of Ezekiel: Phoenician Trade in the Hebrew Bible	94	(1)
from The Book of I Kings: Solomon's Construction of Yahweh's Temple in Jerusalem	95	(7)
from The Annals of Ashurnasirpal II of Assyria	102	(4)
The Assyrian Attack on Lachish (701 B.C.E.)	106	(1)
Letters from Diviners to the Assyrian King	107	(1)
The Cylinder Inscription of Cyrus	108	(2)
from The Histories: Customs of the Persians	110	(3)
Herodotus
from The Book of Genesis: Noah and the Flood	113	(3)
from The Torah: Laws	116	(6)
from The Book of Amos: Prophecies	122	(2)
from The Book of Jeremiah: Prophecies	124	(5)
from The Book of Isaiah: Prophecies	129	(5)
An Aramaic Letter from Elephantine	134	(3)
The Greek Experiment	137	(49)
from The Iliad	138	(1)
Homer
Origins of the Greek Alphabet (c. 500 B.C.E.)	139	(4)
from Works and Days	143	(3)
Hesiod
Poems of Sappho of Lesbos and Semonides of Amorgos	146	(2)
Spartan Society and Values	148	(7)
from The Histories: The Second Persian Invasion of Greece	155	(6)
Herodotus
from The Peloponnesian Wars	161	(5)
Thucydides
from Oeconomicus	166	(5)
Xenophon
from Antigone	171	(9)
Sophocles
Vase Depicting a Slave (c. 450 B.C.E.)	180	(1)
from ``Apology''	181	(5)
Plato
The Expansion of Greece	186	(42)
from The Republic	188	(8)
Plato
from Politics	196	(4)
Aristotle
from ``Life of Alexander''	200	(6)
Plutarch
Eratosthenes' Map of the World (c. 200 B.C.E.)	206	(1)
Hellenistic Architecture in the Near East (c. 175 C.E.)	207	(1)
from The First Book of Maccabees	208	(3)
from Idylls	211	(1)
Theocritus
Principal Doctrines	212	(4)
Epicurus
from On the Nature of Things	216	(3)
Lucretius
from The Manual: Stoicism	219	(6)
Epictetus
Short Poems	225	(3)
Hellenistic Authors
Roman Civilization	228	(48)
from The Twelve Tables	229	(4)
from Lives	233	(6)
Plutarch
from On Slavery in the Later Republic	239	(2)
Diodorus Siculus
from On the Laws	241	(4)
Cicero
from The Sixteen Satires	245	(1)
Juvenal
A Scene from a Roman-Era Italian Harbor (c. 80 C.E.)	246	(8)
from The Loves	254	(2)
Ovid
from The Satyricon	256	(3)
Petronius
Management of a Large Estate	259	(5)
Columella
from The Gospel of Matthew	264	(4)
from Germania	268	(1)
Tacitus
A Mummy from the Time of the Roman Empire (100 C.E.)	269	(7)
Christianity and the Transformation of the Roman World	276	(43)
from An Oration	277	(3)
Constantine
from The Theodosian Code: Roman Law	280	(1)
San Paolo Fuori Le Muri, Rome (c. 385 C.E.)	281	(11)
Ignatius of Antioch Letter to the Romans	292	(2)
The Martyrdom of Polycarp	294	(5)
from The Rule	299	(4)
St. Benedict
from The History	303	(5)
Ammianus Marcellinus
Gregory of Tours from History of the Franks	308	(5)
from City of God	313	(5)
St. Augustine
Mosaics of Justinian and Theodora, Church of San Vita, Ravenna (c. 500 C.E.)	318	(1)
Rome's Three Heirs: The Byzantine Islamic, and Early Medieval Worlds	319	(39)
from Secret History	321	(2)
Procopius
The Armenian History	323	(4)
Sebeos
from The Quran	327	(6)
Muhammed
The History	333	(1)
Al-Tabari
Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (c. 690 C.E.)	334	(4)
from A History of the English Church and People	338	(3)
Bede
from The Lombard Laws: Rothair's Edict	341	(3)
from The Life of Charlemagne	344	(5)
Einhard
Vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem (c. 900)	349	(1)
Monastic Clamors, Curses, and Excommunications	350	(1)
``The Wanderer'': Anglo-Saxon Poetry	351	(2)
from Egil's Saga: Viking Literature	353	(5)
The Expansion of Europe: Economy, Society, and Politics in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300	358	(40)
The Statutes of Lorris	359	(3)
The Charter of Liberties for St. Omer	362	(2)
The Last Will and Testament of Oberto Lomellino	364	(2)
Medieval Commercial Contracts and Reports	366	(7)
from The Alexiad	373	(4)
Anna Comnena
from The Life of Saint Louis	377	(5)
Jean de Joinville
Illuminated Bible, France (c. 1230)	382	(1)
The Magna Carta: English Constitutional Law	383	(8)
Ekkehard and Uta, Naumberg Cathedral Statues (c. 1250)	391	(1)
from Las Siete Partidas: Castilian Law Code	392	(5)
The Medieval Sexual Decision-Making Process (c. 1275)	397	(1)
The High Middle Ages: Religious and Intellectual Developments, 1000-1300	398	(45)
``To Herman of Metz, in Defense of the Papal Policy toward Henry IV''	399	(6)
Gregory VII
Papal Bull Unam Sanctam	405	(2)
Pope Boniface VIII
Otto of Freising from The Deeds of Frederick Barbarossa	407	(1)
Salisbury Cathedral (1258, spire 1330)	408	(3)
from Carmina Burana	411	(2)
from The Rule of 1223 and The Testament	413	(5)
St. Francis
Hildegard of Bingen Letter to the Clergy of Mainz	418	(1)
Gold and Silver Jeweled Book Cover (c. 1200-1232)	419	(4)
Stephen of Bourbon from On the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit	423	(2)
from The Golden Legend	425	(7)
Jacobus de Voragine
from Summa Theologica	432	(7)
St. Thomas Aquinas
from The Poem of the Cid	439	(4)
The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1500	443	(59)
from The Muqaddimah	445	(6)
Ibn Khaldun
from The Decameron	451	(1)
Giovanni Boccaccio
The Triumph of Death (c. 1340)	452	(5)
from The Canterbury Tales	457	(18)
Geoffrey Chaucer
from The Church	475	(4)
Jan Hus
from The Divine Comedy	479	(5)
Dante Alighieri
from The Book of the City of Ladies	484	(5)
Christine de Pisan
The Arnolfini Marriage (1434)	489	(1)
from The Trial of Jeanne d'Arc	490	(4)
from Commentaries	494	(6)
Pope Plus II
The Distribution of Wealth in Tuscany in 1427	500	(2)
Commerce, Conquest, and Colonization, 1300-1600	502	(45)
William of Rubruck from On the Mongols	504	(7)
from The Travels	511	(5)
Ibn Battuta
from Decline and Fall of Byzantium to the Ottoman Turks	516	(6)
Doukas
from History of the House of Osman	522	(2)
Asikpasazade
``The Tale of the White Cowl'': A Russian Tale	524	(5)
Voyage to Africa	529	(5)
Alvise da Mosto
Letter on His First Voyage	534	(1)
Christopher Columbus
Sapi-Portuguese Salt Cellar (c. 1500)	535	(5)
``The Letter Which the King, Our Lord, Wrote to the King and Queen of Castile, His Kin, Concerning the News of India''	540	(1)
Manuel I
Conquest of Mexico, Florentine Codex (c. 1555)	541	(6)
The Civilization of the Renaissance, c.1350-1550	547	(40)
from I Libri della Famiglia	548	(5)
Leon Battista Alberti
from The Autobiography	553	(3)
Benvenuto Cellini
from The Lives of the Artists	556	(4)
Giorgio Vassari
from The Notebooks	560	(3)
Leonardo da Vinci
from The Book of the Courtier	563	(1)
Baldesar Castiglione
Last Supper (1498)	564	(5)
Portrait of Pope Leo X and Two Cardinals (1518)	569	(1)
from ``Oration On the Dignity of Man''	570	(2)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
from The Prince	572	(4)
Niccolo Machiavelli
Desiderius Erasmus Rotterdam of from Ten Colloquies	576	(5)
from Utopia	581	(6)
Sir Thomas More
The Protestant Reformation	587	(41)
from A Venetian Ambassador's Report on the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre	588	(2)
Giovanni Michiel
St. Ignatius of Loyola from The Spiritual Exercises	590	(3)
from The Trial of Klaus Hottinger of Zurich: Iconoclasm	593	(3)
St. Teresa of Avila from The Life of Teresa of Jesus	596	(2)
The Twelve Articles of the Peasants of Swabia	598	(1)
Sebastian Lotzer
The Ecstasy of St. Teresa (1652)	599	(4)
from Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent	603	(7)
from Draft Ecclesiastical Ordinances, September and October 1541	610	(5)
John Calvin
from ``Appeal to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation''	615	(5)
Martin Luther
``Statement of Grievances,'' Diet of Worms, 1521	620	(1)
The Godly Mill (1521)	621	(5)
The Oath of Allegiance	626	(2)
Religious Wars and State Building, 1540-1660	628	(52)
from On Sovereignty	629	(6)
Jean Bodin
from ``Instructions of the Magistracy of Health in Florence for Justices in the Countryside* * *''	635	(1)
The Surrender of Breda (1635)	636	(3)
from A Venetian Ambassador's Report on Spain	639	(3)
Gianfrancesco Morosini
from Discoverie of Witchcraft	642	(7)
Reginald Scot
from Pensees	649	(3)
Blaise Pascal
from ``The First Anniversarie''	652	(3)
John Donne
from Simplicissimus	655	(6)
Hans Jakob Christosh von Grimmelshausen
from Leviathan	661	(6)
Thomas Hobbes
from ``It Is Folly to Measure the True and False by Our Own Capacity''	667	(3)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
from ``Of Cannibals''	670	(5)
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
from A Voyage into the Levant	675	(1)
Henry Blount
The Plundering and Burning of a Village, a Hanging, and Peasants Avenue Themselves (1633)	676	(4)
The Economy and Society of Early Modern Europe	680	(55)
from A Venetian Ambassador's Report on the Ottoman Empire	682	(2)
Lorenzo Bernardo
from Discourse on England's Treasure by Forraign Trade	684	(5)
Thomas Mun
The Syndics of the Drapers' Guild (1632)	689	(1)
from The Citizen Who Apes the Nobleman	690	(5)
Jean Baptiste Poquelin
from Patriarcha	695	(1)
Robert Filmer
The Meeting in Lyons (1625)	696	(5)
A Memorandum, 1669, and A Memorandum, 1670	701	(3)
Jean Baptiste Colbert
from Reflections on the Accumulation and Distribution of Wealth	704	(7)
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
from Of Domesticall Duties	711	(1)
William Goudge
Marquis de Vauban and Cure of Rumegies	711	(4)
from A Philosophical and Political History of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies	715	(3)
Abbe Guillaume
Thomas Raynal
from The Wealth of Nations	718	(9)
Adam Smith
from The Diary	727	(4)
Samuel Pepys
Coffee House Society	731	(4)
The Age of Absolutism, 1660-1789	735	(37)
Louis XIV and the Duc de Saint-Simon Revocation of the Edict of Nantes	736	(3)
from Two Treatises on Government	739	(1)
John Locke
Palace and Gardens of Versailles (1668)	740	(10)
from Politics Drawn from the Very Words of Holy Scripture	750	(6)
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Les Meninas (1656)	756	(1)
from Historical Memoirs	757	(6)
Duc De Saint-Simon
Frederick II, The Great from Antimachiavell	763	(4)
from On the Law of War and Peace	767	(5)
Hugo Grotius
Credits	772