Sources of The Making of the West, Volume I: To 1740 Peoples and Cultures
by Lualdi, Katharine J.; Hunt, Lynn; Martin, Thomas R.; Rosenwein, Barbara H.; Hsia, R. Po-chia; Smith, Bonnie G.Edition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 2008-02-20
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
This companion sourcebook provides written and visual sources to accompany each chapter ofThe Making of the West. Political, social, and cultural documents offer a variety of perspectives that complement the textbook and encourage student to make connections between narrative history and primary sources. Each chapter contains a chapter summary, document headnotes, and questions for discussion.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. v |
| Introduction: Working with Historical Sources | p. 1 |
| Early Western Civilization, 4000-1000 B.C.E. | p. 15 |
| Defining Humanity: Epic of Gilgamesh (c. 2000 B.C.E.) | p. 15 |
| Establishing Law and Justice: King Hammurabi, The Code of Hammurabi (Early Eighteenth Century B.C.E.) | p. 19 |
| Exploring New Lands: The Story of Sinuhe (Late Nineteenth Century B.C.E.) | p. 26 |
| Writing Experiences: Egyptian Scribal Exercise Book (Twelfth Century B.C.E.) | p. 29 |
| Allying for Peace: The "Eternal Treaty" between the Egyptians and Hittites (c. 1259 B.C.E.) | p. 33 |
| The Near East and the Emergence of Greece, 1000-500 B.C.E. | p. 37 |
| Empires and Divine Right: Inscription Honoring Cyrus, King of Persia (r.c. 557-530 B.C.E.) | p. 37 |
| Monotheism and Mosaic Law: The Book of Exodus, Chapters 19-20 (c. Tenth-Sixth Centuries B.C.E.) | p. 39 |
| Two Visions of the City-State: Tyrtaeus of Sparta and Solon of Athens, Poems (Seventh-Sixth Centuries B.C.E.) | p. 42 |
| Greek Colonization: Herodotus, The Foundation of Cyrene (Late Seventh Century B.C.E.) | p. 45 |
| A Woman's Voice: The Poems of Sappho of Lesbos (Sixth Century B.C.E.) | p. 48 |
| The Greek Golden Age of the Fifth Century B.C.E. | p. 54 |
| The Golden Age of Athens: Thucydides, The Funeral Oration of Pericles (429 B.C.E.) | p. 54 |
| The Emergence of Philosophy: Plato, The Apology of Socrates (399 B.C.E.) | p. 57 |
| The Advance of Science: Hippocrates of Cos, On the Sacred Disease (400 B.C.E.) | p. 62 |
| In Defense of Manly Honor: Euphiletus, A Husband Speaks in His Own Defense (c. 400 B.C.E.) | p. 65 |
| The Geography of Daily Life: Overhead View of a House in Olynthos (c. 432 B.C.E.) | p. 71 |
| Protesting War, Performing Satire: Aristophanes, Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) | p. 72 |
| From the Classical to the Hellenistic World, 400-30 B.C.E. | p. 79 |
| The Conquest of New Lands: Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander the Great (Fourth Century B.C.E.) | p. 79 |
| Imperial Bureaucracy: Zeno, Egyptian Official, Records (259-250 B.C.E.) | p. 83 |
| Everyday Life: Funerary Inscriptions and Epitaphs (Fifth-First Centuries B.C.E.) | p. 88 |
| In Pursuit of Happiness: Epicurus, Letter to a Friend (Late Third Century B.C.E.) | p. 91 |
| Exacting Science: Eratosthenes, Measurement of the Earth (Third Century B.C.E.) and Modern Diagram of Eratosthenes' Measurement | p. 93 |
| The Rise of Rome, 753-44 B.C.E. | p. 97 |
| Formalizing Roman Law: The Twelve Tables (451-449 B.C.E.) | p. 97 |
| Artistic Influences: Etruscan Statuette of a Rider (c. 434-400 B.C.E.) and Roman Bust of Lucius Junius Brutus (c. 300 B.C.E.) | p. 103 |
| Status and Discrimination: Roman Women Demonstrate against the Oppian Law (195 B.C.E.) | p. 106 |
| "Cultivating Justice and Piety": Cicero, On the Commonwealth (54 B.C.E.) | p. 110 |
| Failure and Factionalism: The Gracchan Reforms (133 B.C.E.) | p. 113 |
| Toward Empire: Julius Caesar, The Gallic War (52 B.C.E.) | p. 116 |
| The Roman Empire, 44 B.C.E.-284 C.E. | p. 121 |
| In Defense of Roman Authority and Order: Imperial Edicts for the Government of Cyrene (7 B.C.E.) | p. 121 |
| An Urban Empire: Notices and Graffiti Describe Life in Pompeii (First Century C.E.) | p. 123 |
| New Influences to the North: Tacitus, Germania (c. 98 C.E.) | p. 126 |
| Persecuting a New Religion: Interrogation of Christians (180 C.E.) | p. 130 |
| Revolt in the Colonies: Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War (70 C.E.) | p. 132 |
| The Transformation of the Roman Empire, 284-600 C.E. | p. 135 |
| The Establishment of Roman Christian Doctrine: Arius, Letter to Alexander, Bishop of Alexandria (c. 320 C.E.) and The Nicene Creed (325 C.E.) | p. 135 |
| Polytheism versus Christianity: Quintas Aurelius Symmachus and St. Ambrose, The Altar of Victory Sparks a Religious Debate (384 C.E.) | p. 137 |
| The Development of Monasticism: St. Jerome, Letter 107 (403 C.E.) | p. 140 |
| Germanic Law in the Roman Empire: The Burgundian Code (c. 475-525 C.E.) | p. 143 |
| Emergence of Byzantium: Procopius, Secret History (550 C.E.) | p. 148 |
| Islam, Byzantium, and the West, 600-750 | p. 153 |
| The Foundations of Islam: Qur'an, Suras 1, 53, 98 (c. 610-632) | p. 153 |
| Jihad and Jizya: Islamic Terms of Peace (633-643) | p. 157 |
| Byzantine Life: The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon (Early Seventh Century) | p. 159 |
| A Noblewoman's Life: The Life of Lady Balthild, Queen of the Franks (Late Seventh Century) | p. 162 |
| Roman Christian Missions: Pope Gregory the Great, Letters (598-601) | p. 167 |
| Emperors, Caliphs, and Local Lords, 750-1050 | p. 170 |
| The Rule of Charlemagne: General Capitulary for the Missi (802) | p. 170 |
| Resistance from Constantinople: Liutprand of Cremona, Report to Otto I (968) | p. 174 |
| The Macedonian Renaissance: Veroli Casket (c. 1000) | p. 178 |
| A New Islamic Dynasty: Ahmad al-Ya'qubi, Kitab al-buldan (Ninth Century) | p. 179 |
| Advances in Medicine: Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyu Al-razi, A Treatise on the Small-Pox and Measles (c. 910) | p. 182 |
| The Faithful Vassal: Fulbert of Chartres, Letter to William of Aquitaine (1020) | p. 185 |
| Merchants and Kings, Popes and Crusaders, 1050-1150 | p. 188 |
| Medieval Cities: Urban Charters of Jaca, Spain (c. 1077) and Lorris, France (1155) | p. 188 |
| Sources of the Investiture Conflict: Emperor Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII, Letter and Excommunication (1076) | p. 193 |
| Calling the First Crusade: Fulcher of Chartres, Pope Urban II's Speech at Clermont (1095) | p. 195 |
| Arab Response to the First Crusade: Ibn al-Athir, A Muslim Perspective (1097-1099) | p. 197 |
| The Power of William I: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (1085-1086) | p. 202 |
| The Flowering of the Middle Ages, 1150-1215 | p. 206 |
| Scholarly Pursuits and Youthful Frolics: Medieval University Life (Twelfth-Early Thirteenth Centuries) | p. 206 |
| Gothic Architecture: Abbot Suger, The Abbey Church of Saint-Denis (1144) | p. 211 |
| Courtly Love: Chretien de Troyes, Erec and Enide (c. 1170) | p. 214 |
| Franciscan Piety: St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi, Selected Writings (Thirteenth Century) | p. 219 |
| The Sack of Constantinople: Annals of Niketas Choniates (1204) | p. 224 |
| The Medieval Search for Order, 1215-1340 | p. 229 |
| A Female Mystic: Hadewijch of Brabant, Letters and Poems (1220-1240) | p. 229 |
| The Rise of Anti-Semitism: Thomas of Monmouth, The Life and Martyrdom of St. William of Norwich (c. 1173) | p. 233 |
| Imagining Hell: Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy (1313-1321) | p. 236 |
| Bureaucratic Institutions: Summons of Representatives of Shires and Towns to Parliament (1295) and Rolls of Parliament, Petitions and Answers (1290-1305) | p. 241 |
| A Monogol's View: Guyuk Khan, Letter to Pope Innocent IV (1246) | p. 244 |
| Crisis and Renaissance, 1340-1492 | p. 247 |
| Demographic Catastrophe: The Black Death (Fourteenth Century) | p. 247 |
| Crisis and Change: Thomas Walsingham: Peasant Rebels in London (1381) | p. 251 |
| The Great Schism: Catherine of Siena, Letters (1376-1377) and Councils of Pisa and Constance, Decrees (1409-1417) | p. 254 |
| Satirizing the Church: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue (1387-1400) | p. 257 |
| Extolling Humanism: Giovanni Rucellai and Leonardo Bruni, Florence in the Quattrocento (1427 and 1457) | p. 261 |
| Women's Place in Renaissance Italy: Alessandra, Letters from a Widow and Matriarch of a Great Family (1450-1465) | p. 265 |
| Religious Reforms and Global Encounters, 1492-1560 | p. 269 |
| Worlds Collide: Bernal Diaz del Castillo, The True History of the Conquest of New Spain (c. 1567) | p. 269 |
| Illustrating a Native Perspective: Lienzo de Tlaxcala (c. 1560) | p. 274 |
| Defending Native Humanity: Bartolome de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians (c. 1548-1550) | p. 275 |
| Scripture and Salvation: Martin Luther, Freedom of a Christian (1520) | p. 278 |
| Reforming Christianity: John Calvin, Articles Concerning Predestination (c. 1560) and The Necessity of Reforming the Church (1543) | p. 280 |
| Responding to Reformation: St. Ignatius of Loyola, A New Kind of Catholicism (1546, 1549, 1553) | p. 282 |
| Wars of Religion and Clash of Worldviews, 1560-1648 | p. 287 |
| Legislating Tolerance: Henry IV, Edict of Nantes (1598) | p. 287 |
| Barbarians All: Michel de Montaigne, Of Cannibals (1580s) | p. 291 |
| The Scientific Challenge: Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (1615) | p. 293 |
| The Persecution of Witches: The Trial of Suzanne Gaudry (1652) | p. 297 |
| Commercial Endeavors: David Pieterzen DeVries, Voyages from Holland to America (1655) | p. 303 |
| State Building and the Search for Order, 1648-1690 | p. 307 |
| Civil War and Social Contract: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651) | p. 307 |
| The Consent of the Governed: John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government (1690) | p. 313 |
| Opposing Serfdom: Ludwig Fabritius, The Revolt of Stenka Razin (1670) | p. 316 |
| Fighting for Empire: A True and Exact Relation of the Raising of the Siege of Vienna (1683) | p. 319 |
| In Search of the Northwest Passage: Jacques Marquette, Exploring the Mississippi (1673) | p. 323 |
| The Atlantic System and Its Consequences, 1690-1740 | p. 329 |
| Captivity and Enslavement: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself (1789) | p. 329 |
| A "Sober and Wholesome Drink": A Brief Description of the Excellent Vertues of That Sober and Wholesome Drink, Called Coffee (1674) | p. 332 |
| In Defense of Military Action: Tsar Peter I, Letter to His Son, Alexei (October 11, 1715) and Alexei's Response (October 31, 1715) | p. 336 |
| Challenging Absolutism: Montesquieu, Persian Letters: Letter 37 (1721) | p. 339 |
| Questioning Women's Submission: Mary Astell, Reflections upon Marriage (1706) | p. 341 |
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