Sources of The Making of the West, Volume I: To 1740; Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History

by Katharine J. Lualdi

• ISBN13: 9780312407186
• ISBN10: 0312407181
• Edition: CONCISE
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2002-10-03
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

For each chapter in The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures, A Concise History by Lynn Hunt, Thomas R. Martin, Barbara H. Rosenwein, R. Po-chia Hsia, and Bonnie G. Smith, this companion sourcebook provides five important political, social, and cultural documents that reinforce or extend discussions in the textbook, encouraging students to make connections between narrative history and primary sources. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
Introduction: Working with Historical Sources	p. vii
Foundations of Western Civilization, to 500 B.C.E.	p. 1
King Hammurabi, The Code of Hammurabi (Early Eighteenth Century B.C.E.)	p. 1
The Book of Exodus, Chapters 19-24 (c. Tenth-Sixth Centuries B.C.E.)	p. 9
Inscription Honoring Cyrus, King of Persia (r. c. 557-530 B.C.E.)	p. 17
Tyrtaeus of Sparta and Solon of Athens, Poems (Seventh-Sixth Centuries B.C.E.)	p. 20
Sappho of Lesbos, Poems (Sixth Century B.C.E.)	p. 22
The Greek Golden Age, c. 500-400 B.C.E.	p. 26
Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles (429 B.C.E.)	p. 26
Plato, The Apology of Socrates (399 B.C.E.)	p. 29
Euphiletus, A Husband Speaks in His Own Defense (c. 400 B.C.E.)	p. 34
Overhead Views of a House on the Slope of the Areopagus (Fifth Century B.C.E.)	p. 41
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.)	p. 43
From the Classical to the Hellenistic World, c. 400-30 B.C.E.	p. 47
Zeno, Egyptian Official, Records (259-250 B.C.E.)	p. 47
Funerary Inscriptions and Epitaphs (Fifth-First Centuries B.C.E.)	p. 52
Map of Ancient Alexandria (Second Half of First Century B.C.E.)	p. 55
Epicurus, Letter to a Friend (Late Third Century B.C.E.)	p. 56
The Book of I Maccabees, Chapter 8 (Second Century B.C.E.)	p. 58
The Rise of Rome, c. 753-44 B.C.E.	p. 62
The Twelve Tables (451-449 B.C.E.)	p. 62
Etruscan Statuette of a Rider (c. 434-400 B.C.E.) and Roman Bust of Lucius Junius Brutus (c. 300 B.C.E.)	p. 68
Roman Women Demonstrate against the Oppian Law (195 B.C.E.)	p. 71
The Gracchan Reforms (133 B.C.E.)	p. 75
Julius Caesar, The Gallic War (52 B.C.E.)	p. 78
The Roman Empire, c. 44 B.C.E.-284 C.E.	p. 83
Augustus, The Accomplishments of Augustus (14 C.E.)	p. 83
Notices and Graffiti Describing Life in Pompeii (First Century C.E.)	p. 92
Plan of Stabian Baths and Seneca, Letters 56.1, 2 (First Century C.E.)	p. 92
Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (70 C.E.)	p. 97
Pliny the Younger, Letters (Early Second Century C.E.)	p. 99
The Transformation of the Roman Empire, c. 284-600 C.E.	p. 105
Arius, Letter to Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria (c. 320 C.E.) and The Nicene Creed (325 C.E.)	p. 105
Quintas Aurelias Symmachus and St. Ambrose, The Altar of Victory Sparks a Religious Debate (384 C.E.)	p. 107
St. Jerome, Letter 107 (403 C.E.)	p. 110
The Burgundian Code (c. 475-525 C.E.)	p. 113
Procopius, Buildings (c. 553-554 C.E.)	p. 118
The Heirs of the Roman Empire, 600-750	p. 122
Theophanes Confessor, Chronicle (Ninth Century)	p. 122
Qur'an, Suras 1, 53, 98 (c. 610-632)	p. 124
Islamic Terms of Peace (633-643)	p. 128
Pope Gregory the Great, Letters (598-601)	p. 130
The Life of Lady Balthild, Queen of the Franks (Late Seventh Century)	p. 132
Unity and Diversity in Three Societies, 750-1050	p. 138
General Capitulary for the Missi (802)	p. 138
Liutprand of Cremona, Report to Otto I (968)	p. 142
Digenis Akritas (Tenth or Eleventh Century)	p. 146
Ahmad al-Ya`qubi, Kitab al-buldan (Ninth Century)	p. 149
Fulbert of Chartres, Letter to William of Aquitaine (1020)	p. 152
Renewal and Reform, 1050-1200	p. 154
Urban Charters of Jaca, Spain (c. 1077), and Lorris, France (1155)	p. 154
Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII, Sources of the Investiture of Conflict (1076)	p. 159
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1085-1086)	p. 161
Medieval University Life (Twelfth-Early Thirteenth Centuries)	p. 164
St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, Selected Writings (Thirteenth Century)	p. 169
An Age of Confidence, 1200-1340	p. 175
Abbot Suger, The Abbey Church of St.-Denis (1144)	p. 175
Hadewijch of Brabant, Letters and Poems of a Female Mystic (1220-1240)	p. 180
Dante Alighieri, Human and Divine Love (Late Thirteenth-Early Fourteenth Centuries)	p. 183
Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295) and Rolls of Parliament, Petitions and Answers (1290-1305)	p. 188
Guyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1246)	p. 191
Crisis and Renaissance, 1340-1500	p. 194
The Black Death (Fourteenth Century)	p. 194
Thomas Walsingham, Peasant Rebels in London (1381)	p. 198
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (1496)	p. 201
Bernardino of Siena, An Italian Preacher: Sins against Nature (1380-1444)	p. 203
Gomes Eanes de Zurara, Chronicle of the Discovery of Guinea (c. 1453)	p. 205
Struggles over Beliefs, 1500-1648	p. 209
Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520)	p. 209
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553)	p. 211
Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of a Simpleton (1668-1669)	p. 214
Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)	p. 217
Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615)	p. 220
The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652)	p. 224
State Building and the Search for Order, 1648-1690	p. 231
Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon, Memoirs (1694-1723)	p. 231
British Parliament, The English Bill of Rights (1689)	p. 234
Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670)	p. 236
A True and Exact Relation of the Raising of the Siege of Vienna (1683)	p. 239
Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Cleves (1678)	p. 242
The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690-1740	p. 245
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789)	p. 245
Tsar Peter I, Letter to His Son, Alexei (October 11, 1715), and Alexei's Response (October 31, 1715)	p. 248
Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721)	p. 251
Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706)	p. 253
Pietist Spiritual Songbook (1705)	p. 258
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