Western Civilization: Sources Images and Interpretations Volume 1 To 1700

by Sherman, Dennis

• ISBN13: 9780077382391
• ISBN10: 0077382390
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780073127590
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-08
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
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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 thousands of 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

Civilizations of the Ancient World

Civilizations of the Ancient Near East

Primary Sources

Using Primary Sources: Laws of Hammurabi

The Laws of Hammurabi

The Epic of Gilgamesh

Hymn to the Nile

Hymn to the Pharaoh

The Old Testament-Genesis and Exodus

The Aton Hymn and Psalm 104: The Egyptians and the Hebrews

Visual Sources

Using Visual Sources: The “Royal Standard” of Ur

Sumer: The “Royal Standard” of Ur (illustration)

Egyptian Wall Paintings from the Tomb of Menna (illustration)

The Environment and the Rise of Civilization in the Ancient Near East (maps)

Secondary Sources

Using Secondary Sources: The Agricultural Revolution

The Agricultural Revolution

The Process of Civilization

Freedom in the Ancient World: Civilization in Sumer

The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man

Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: The Afterlife

Women of Egypt and the Ancient Near East

A History of the Jews

The Emergence of Greek Civilization

Primary Sources

Homer, The Iliad

Hesiod, Works and Days

A Colonization Agreement

Semonides of Amorgos, Poem on Women

Theognis of Megara, Aristocrats and Tyrants

Solon, Early Athens

Xenophon, Constitution of the Lacedaemonians

Visual Sources

Trade, Culture, and Colonization (photo)

Migration and Colonization (maps)

Secondary Sources

The End of the Mycenaean World

Greek Realities: The Homeric Epics

Social Values and Ethics in the "Dark Age" of Greece

The Greek Experience: The Heroic Outlook

Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Primary Sources

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: The Historical Method

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: Athens During the Golden Age

Sophocles, Antigone

Plato, The Republic

Aristotle, Politics

Xenophon, Household Management

Hippocrates, Medicine and Magic

Epicurus, Individual Happiness

Visual Sources

Education (photo)

The Women’s Quarters (illustration)

The Dying Niobide: The Classical Balance (photo)

The Old Market Woman: Hellenistic Individualism (photo)

Geography and Political Configurations in Greece (map)

Seondary Sources

Goddess, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women and Work in Athens

The Greeks: Slavery

The Ancient Greeks: Decline of the Polls

Alexander the Great

Greek Realities

The Rise of Rome

Primary Sources

Polybius, Histories: The Roman Constitution

Cicero, The Education of a Roman Gentleman

Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, Eulogoy for a Roman Wife

Plautus, Menaechmi: Roman Slavery

Sallust, The Conspiracy of Catiline: Decline of the Republic

Visual Sources

Evidence from Coins (photo)

The Geographic and Cultural Environment (map)

Secondary Sources

The Ancient City: Religious Practices

Life and Leisure: The Roman Aristrocrat

Roman Women

The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

Primary Sources

Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor

Meditations: Ideals of an Emperor and Stoic Philosopher

Pliny the Younger and Trajan, Rome and the Early Christians

A Roman Sarcophagus: Picturing the Bible

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Epistle to the Romans

The City of God

The Germanic Tribes

The Fall of Rome

Visual Sources

Carved Gemstone: Augustus and the Empire Transformed (photo)

Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture(photo)

Secondary Sources

The Roman Empire: The Place of Augustus

Pagan and Christian: The Appeal of Christianity

Women of the Roman Empire

The Later Roman Empire

The Middle Ages

The Early Middle Ages

Primary Sources

Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks

The Origins of Feudalism

Charlemagne, Instructions to the Subjects of Charlemagne's Empire

Einhard, War and Conversion Under Charlemagne

The Annals of Xanten, Disorder and Destruction

The Wanderer: Life of a Medieval Warrior

Visual Sources

Illustration from a Gospel Book: Christianity and Early Medieval Culture (illustration)

Painting from an Illuminated Bible: Secular and Religious Authority (illustration)

Contraction in the Early Middle Ages (maps)

Secondary Sources

Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Beginnings of Medieval Civilization

The Carolingian West: The Genesis of Feudal Relationships

An Evaluation of Feudalism

Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women

The Medieval East

Primary Sources

The Qur'an

Letter to Umar II: Islamic Asceticism

Avicenna, Autobiography of a Muslim Scholar

The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law

The Rus: Cross-Cultural Contact

Visual Sources

Manuscript Illuminations: Scenes from the Life of Muhammad (illustrations)

Empress Theodors with her Retinue (illustration)

The Byzantine Empire and the Expansion of Islam (maps)

Secondary Sources

Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome

The Arabs in History

The Expansion of Islam

The Islamic World

The Eastern Orientation of Islam

The High Middle Ages: The Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries

Primary Sources

Pope Gregory VII, Letters: Secular and Ecclesiastical Authority

Reginald of Durham, The Life of Saint Gidric: A Merchant Adventurer

Andreas Capellanus, The Art of Courtly Love

Gratian, The Decretum: Medieval Women-Not in God’s Image

Visual Sources

The Gospel Book of Otto III: Church and State (illustration)

The Bayeux Tapestry (illustration)

Medieval Expansion (maps)

Secondary Sources

Medieval Values

The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status

The Merchant

The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom

Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People

The High Middle Ages: The Crusades and the East

Primary Sources

The Opening of the Crusades

Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders’ Motives

Inducements for the Crusades

The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades

Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions

Visual Sources

Conflict and Cultural Exchange (illustration)

Secondary Sources

The Meaning of the Crusades

The Significance of

The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience

The High Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century

Primary Sources

Papal Proclamation of Supremacy

Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration

St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis

Summa Theologica

Frederick II, Political Authority: The Emperor, the Princes, and the Towns

Decrees of the Hanseatic League

Ordinances of the Guild Merchants of Southampton

Bartholomaeus Anglicus, Chambermaids

Visual Sources

Medieval Life (illustration)

Secularization and the Medieval Knight (illustration)

Secondary Sources

The Outlaws of Medieval Legend: Social Rank and Injustice

Life in Cities: Violence and Fear

Solitude

Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change

The Late Middle Ages

Primary Sources

Attack on the Papacy: The Conciliar Movement

Manual of the Inquisitor

The Rebellions of 1381

The Decameron: The Plague in Florence

Statue of Laborers

The Canterbury Tales

The Goodman of Paris: Instructions on Being a Good Wife

Visual Sources

The Church Besieged (illustration)

The Triumph of Death (illustration)

Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (map)

Food and Crime (chart)

Secondary Sources

The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages

The Great Mortality

The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective

The Waywain: Greed, Chaos, and Doom

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 Moneylender and his Wife

Raphael, 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

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 Faith

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)

Hans Holbein the Younger, Portrait of the Merchant Heorg Gisze

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 France

Richelieu, 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

The Surrender of Breda (illustration)

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’ War

A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War

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 Only Will: Mercantilism

The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia

Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France

Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power

Visual Sources

The Early Modern Chateau (photo)

Maternal Care (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Absolutism: Myth and Reality

The English Revolution, 1688-1689

The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family

The Scientific Revolution

Primary Sources

The Discourse on Method

Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture

The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned

Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

Visual Sources

A Vision of the New Science (illustration)

Secondary Sources

Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific Revolution

Childhood in Early Modern Times

No Scientific Revolution for Women

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