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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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