Western Civilization: Sources, Images, and Interpretations, from the Renaissance to the Present : Sources, Images, and Interpretations, from the Renaissance to the Present

by SHERMAN

• ISBN13: 9780073513249
• ISBN10: 0073513245
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780073385600
• Edition: 7th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-11-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

This collection of primary, secondary, and visual sources for the Western Civilization survey course provides a broad introduction to the materials historians use, the interpretations historians make, and 6,000 years of Western civilization. Its broad selection of documents, photographs, maps, and charts, and its full array of accompanying commentaries--drawn from a balanced spectrum of perspectives and approaches--offer valuable insight into the work of historians and provide the context that helps students understand the texts' full historical significance.

Table of Contents

Renaissance, Reformation, And Expansion

The Renaissance Primary Sources

A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism

On the Liberal Arts

The City of Ladies

The Prince

The Book of the Courtier Visual Sources

The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)

Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (illustration)

Wealth

Culture

and Diplomacy (illustration) Secondary Sources

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Peter Burke

The Myth of the Renaissance

Machiavelli and the Renaissance

Northern Sources of the Renaissance

The Reformation Primary Sources

The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences

Justification by

On the Bondage of the Will

Condemnation of Peasant Revolt

Institutes of the Christian Religion: Predestination Constitution of the Society of Jesus Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection Visual Sources Luther and the New Testament (illustration)

Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)

Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration) Secondary Sources

What was the Reformation?

A Political Interpretation of the Reformation

The Catholic Reformation

The Legacy of the Reformation

Women in the Reformation

Overseas Expansion and New Politics Primary Sources

The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea

Letter to Lord Sanchez 1493

Memoirs: The Aztecs

Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics Visual Sources

The Assets and Liabilities of Empire (text and illustration) The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs (illustration) Exploration

Expansion, and Politics (maps) Secondary Sources

The Expansion of Europe

The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World

Red

White

and Black: The Peoples of Early America

The Early Modern Period

War and Revolution: 1560-1660 Primary Sources

Civil War in

Political Will and Testament

The Powers of the Monarch in England The House of Commons

The Powers of Parliament in England

The Hammer of Witches Visual Sources

War and Violence (illustration)

Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and illustration) Germany and the Thirty Years' War (maps) Secondary Sources

A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years'

A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years'

War and Peace in the Old Regime

The Causes of the English Civil War

The Devil's Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations

Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century Primary Sources

Austria Over All If She

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