The West in the Wider World, Volume 1: From Antiquity to Early Modernity Sources and Perspectives

by Lim, Richard; Smith, David Kammerling

• ISBN13: 9780312204587
• ISBN10: 0312204582
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-19
• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's

Summary

The first college reader to focus on the central historical question, "How did the West become the West?, " The West in the Wider World: Sources and Perspectives offers a wealth of source materials to reveal the influence of non-European regions on the origins and development of Western civilization. Over 120 selections in each volume combine written and visual primary sources from both Westerners and individuals in societies that came in contact with the West. In addition, secondary sources from modern historians provide historical perspective on the issues under consideration. A valuable new resource for today's Western civilization classroom, The West in the Wider World will appeal to any instructor who seeks a source collection that reveals the global context of the Western tradition.

Author Biography

RICHARD LIM, Associate Professor of History at Smith College, earned his B.A. at the University of California at Berkeley and his Ph.D. at Princeton University. His publications include Public Disputations, Power, and Social Order in Late Antiquity (1995) and articles on the history and culture of Late Antiquity. A recipient of the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome and the National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship, he is currently working on a book on public spectacles and civic transformation in five cities within the Later Roman Empire.

DAVID KAMMERLING SMITH, Associate Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University, received his M.S. Ed. (1986) from Indiana University and both a M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (1995) in European history from the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in French history, he has published articles on political, economic, and cultural history in The Journal of Modern History and French Historical Studies, among other journals, and contributed to major reference works, such as The Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment. He has received numerous grants, including a Bourse Chateaubriand, a Lingelbach Research Fellowship, and a Mellon Foundation Fellowship, and has served as an editor and book review editor of H-France. At Eastern Illinois University, he has taught both Western Civilization and World History and has developed specialized courses that integrate national historical narratives into the framework of world history.

Table of Contents

VOLUME I: FROM ANTIQUITY TO EARLY MODERNITY
  1. West Versus East And The Quest For Origins
    Defining Europe and the West
     Encyclopaedia Britannica on Europe (late 18th – 20th century)
     Peter Burke, Did Europe Exist before 1700? (1980)
     Lewis and Wigen, The Myth of Continents (1997)
    The Black Athena Debate
     History Textbooks on Ancient Greece and the West (1940s-50s)
     Martin Bernal, First by Land, Then by Sea (1989)
     Mary Lefkowitz, Not Out of Africa (1996)
    
  2. The Long Shadows of Mesopotamia and Egypt
    Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 b.c.)
    Book of Genesis
    Code of Hammurabi (c. 1792-1750 b.c.)
    Book of Exodus
    Encountering Ancient Egypt
    Sea Peoples Inscriptions from Medinet Habu (c. 1100 B.C.)
    Hymn to the Aton (c. 1350 b.c.)
    Herodotus, History of the Greek and Persian Wars (early fifth century b.c.)
    
  3. Greeks And Non-Greeks In The Ancient Mediterranean
    Becoming Greek at Home and Abroad
    Homer, Iliad; The Catalogue of Ships (c. 750 b.c..)
    Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War (c. mid-fifth century b.c..)
    Herodotus, History of the Greek and Persian Wars; (c. mid-fifth century b.c.)
    The Persian Wars and Greek Identity
    Herodotus, History of the Greek and Persian Wars: (mid-fifth century b.c.)
    Pseudo-Hippocrates, Airs, Waters, Places (late fifth century – early fourth century?)
    Euripides, Medea (431 b.c.)
    Aristotle, Politics (mid-fourth century b.c.)
    Isocrates, The Address to Philip (346 b.c.)
    
  4. The Hellenistic Encounter With The East
    Greeks in India
    Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander (c. 160)
    Plutarch, Life of Alexander (c. 100)
    Arrian, History of India (c. 160)
    Greeks and Jews
    Pseudo-Hecataeus of Abdera, History of Egypt (second century b.c.?)
    Letter of Aristeas (early–late 2nd century B.C.)
    I Maccabees (c. 150 b.c.)
    II Maccabees (first century b.c.)
    Arnaldo Momigliano, Alien Wisdom (1975)
    
  5. Romans And Non-Romans: Cultural Identity In A Universal Empire
    Defining Roman Identity
    Livy, History of Rome (c. 10 b.c.)
    Aelius Aristides, Speech on Rome (a.d. 155)
    Juvenal, Satires (early second century a.d.)
    Romans and Their Tribal Neighbors in the West
    Sallust, The War with Jugurtha (c. 40 b.c..)
    Julius Caesar, The Gallic Wars (mid-first century b.c.)
    Tacitus,Germania (c. a.d. 98)
    Tacitus, Annals (after a.d. 68-early second century)
    D.B. Saddington, "Race Relations in the Early Empire" (1975)
    
  6. The Rise Of Christianity
    The Gospel Among Jews and Gentiles
    Gospel of Matthew (c. 80)
    Paul the Apostle, Letter to the Galatians (c. 55)
    Acts of the Apostles (c. 85)
    Christians as the Enemies Within
    Pliny the Younger, Letter to Trajan (c. 112)
    Origen of Alexandria, Against Celsus (c. 246)
    Martyrdoms of Perpetua and Felicitas (early third century)
    The Christian Transformation of Roman Identity
    Eusebius of Caesarea, Preparation for the Gospel (c. 314-318)
    Basil of Caesarea, Address to Young Men (c. 360-370)
    Augustine of Hippo, Confessions (397)
    
  7. Toward A Barbarian Europe
    The Steppe and the Sown: Between East and West
    Sima Qian, Historical Record (first century B.C.)
    Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae (late fourth century)
    Priscus, History (mid-fifth century)
    Theophylact Simocatta, Histories (early seventh century)
    The Rise of Barbarian Kingdoms in the West
    Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History (mid-fifth century)
    Salvian of Marseilles, On the Governance of God (mid-fifth century)
    Images of Life in the Roman and Barbarian West (fourth and sixth century)
    The Burgundian Code (early sixth century)
    
  8 . The Rise Of Islam And The Birth Of Europe
    Arabia, Muhammad, and Islam
    Sozomen, Ecclesiastical History (mid 5th century)
    Ibn Ishaq, Biography of Muhammad (mid-eighth century)
    The Qu'ran (after 632)
    Muslims and Non-Muslims
    The "Pact of ‘Umar" (seventh to eighth century)
    Al-Shafi‘i, Kitab al-Umm (eighth to ninth century)
    Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem (691)
    Theophanes the Confessor, Chronicle (c. 815)
    A Latin Life of Muhammad (mid ninth century)
    Islam and the Rise of Europe
    Al Tabassur bi'l-tijara (ninth century)
    Henri Pirenne Mohammed and Charlemagne (1935)
    
  9. Byzantinium Between East And West
    An Embattled Empire
    Agathias, Histories (mid sixth century)
    Maurice, Manual of Strategy (early seventh century)
    Byzantium and Medieval Rus
    The Russian Primary Chronicle (1116)
    Ihor Sevcenko, The Christianization of Kievan Rus (1960)
    Byzantium and Western Christendom
    Constantine Porphyrogenitus, On the Administration of the Empire (mid-tenth century)
    "Donation of Constantine" (c. 750)
    Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (825/830)
    Liudprand of Cremona, Embassy to Constantinople (c. 968/972.)
    
  10. The Crusades Among Christians, Jews And Muslims
    The Origins of the First Crusade
    The Truce of God (1083)
    So-called Letter of Emperor Alexius I to Robert Count of Flanders (late eleventh century?)
    William of Tyre, History (c. 1170)
    Crusaders, Jews, and Byzantines
    Mainz Anonymous, The Narrative of the Old Persecution (c. 1096)
    Anna Comnena: Alexiad (c. 1148)
    Albert of Aachen (Aix-La-Chapelle), Chronicle (mid twelfth century)
    Crusaders and Muslims
    Letter of Godfrey, Raymond and Daimbert to Pope Paschal (1099)
    Al-Qazwini, Athar al-bilad (c. 1275)
    A Muslim Call for Resistance to the Crusaders (twelfth century)
    Usamah Ibn-Munqidh, Memoirs (c. 1175)
    Images of Muslims and Christians at War and In Peace
    
  11. Jews And Judaism From Late Antiquity To The Renaissance
    Jews in a Christianizing Mediterranean
    Roman Imperial Laws on Judaism (late fourth to fifth century)
    Severus of Minorca, Letter on the Conversion of the Jews (418)
    Caesarius of Arles, Sermon 104 (early fifth century)
    Jews in Latin Christendom
    Pope Innocent III, Decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council (1215)
    Nahmanides, Debate with a Christian (1263)
    Avigdor Kara, All the Afflictions of the People (c. 1400)
    Medieval Christian Images of Jews (tenth to fifteenth century)
    Expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 (1495)
    
  12. Between Europe And Cathay: Traversing Mongol Eurasia
    First Contacts
    John of Plano Carpini, History of the Mongol (c. 1247/1252)
    Correspondence between Pope Innocent IV and Güyük Khan (1245-1246)
    Novgorod Chronicle (late fifteenth century)
    Christian Religious Missions to the East
    William of Rubruck, Itinerary (c. 1256)
    John of Monte Corvino, Letters (1304-1306)
    Andrew of Perugia, Letter (1326)
    Trade between East and West
    Marco Polo, Travels (c. 1298)
    Images of the Silk Road
    Janet L. Abu-Lughod, Before European Hegemony (1989)
    
    Turks and European Jews; and (2) the challenge to Catholic religious authority posed by the New Science.
    
  13. Two Worlds Collide: Renaissance Europe and the Americas
    The European Arrival
    Christopher Columbus, Log of the First Voyage (1492)
    Codex Florentino (1555)
    Hernando Cortés,"Second Dispatch to Charles V" (1520)
    Bernal Díaz, Chronicles (1560)
    Images of the Encounter: German Woodcut of 1505 and Woodcut from The First New Chronicle and Good Government (1505 and c. 1600)
    The Americas in Europe
    Roger Schlesinger, In the Wake of Columbus (1996)
    Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, Democrates Secundus (1544)
    Bartolomé de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (1551)
    Michel de Montaigne, On Cannibals (1580s)
    
  14. Challenges to Christendom in Reformation Europe
    Religion and Reformation
    Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Travels into Turkey (c. 1561)
    Martin Luther, On Christian Liberty and Address to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation (1520)
    Thomas More, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies (1529)
    Johannes Brenz, Booklet on the Turk (1531)
    Andreas Osiander, Whether it is true and believable that Jews secretly kill Christian children and use their blood (c. 1529)
    Two Woodcuts: The Martyrdom of Simon of Trent and Turkish Atrocities (1475 and 1530)
    Religion and the Natural World
    Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches (1486)
    Copernicus, On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres (1543)
    Galileo Galilei, "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina" (1615)