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Saint Peter (Yale University Art Gallery)

Western Civilization I

Editor In Chief: Joseph T. Stuart, University of Mary

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Textbook Articles Archaic and Early Classical Greece
Textbook Articles Late Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Age
Textbook Articles Roman Republic
Textbook Articles Roman Empire
Textbook Articles The Rise of Christianity
Textbook Articles The Fall of Rome and the European Peoples
Textbook Articles The Church and the Conversion of the European Peoples
Textbook Articles Age of Charlemagne
Textbook Articles Feudal Europe and the “Dark Age”
Textbook Articles Church Reform in the Eleventh Century and the Medieval Papacy
Textbook Articles International Relations
Textbook Articles Medieval Institutions
Textbook Articles The Waning of the Middle Ages
Textbook Articles The Renaissance and the Transformation of the the Western World
Textbook Articles How to Read Primary Sources
Includes Instructor Note
Textbook Articles The Byzantine Empire
Documents Marcus Cato (the Elder): On Agriculture
Documents Virgil: Aeneid
Documents Aristotle: Athenian Constitution
Documents Aristotle: “The Nature, End, and Origin of the States”
Documents Hippocratic Oath
Documents Funeral Oration of Pericles
Documents Law of Caesar on Municipalities
Documents Herodotus: “The Battle of Marathon”
Documents Twelve Tables of Roman Law
Documents Cicero: On the Laws
Documents Hesiod: Theogony
Documents Homer: Iliad
Documents Juvenal: Satires
Documents Truce for the Bishopric of Terouanne
Documents Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII: Letter and Ban
Documents Pope Urban II: Call to Crusade
Documents Abu Hamid al-Ghazali: Confessions
Documents Bernard Atton, Viscount of Carcassonne: Charter of Homage and Fealty
Documents Pliny the Younger and Emperor Trajan: Letters on Treatment of the Christians
Documents Concordat of Worms
Documents Anna Comnena: Alexiad
Documents Constitutions of Clarendon
Documents Thomas à Becket: Letter to Henry II
Documents Usama ibn Munqidh: “A Muslim View of the Crusaders”
Documents The Lay of the Cid
Documents Magna Carta
Documents Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris
Documents Second Rule of the Friars Minor
Documents Francis of Assisi: Canticle of the Creatures
Documents The Secret History of the Mongols
Documents The Journey of William of Rubruck
Documents Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae
Documents Pope Boniface VIII: Clericis Laicos and Unam Sanctam
Documents Marco Polo: Description of Hangzhou
Documents Dante: The Divine Comedy
Documents Marsilius of Padua: The Defender of the Peace
Documents Giovanni Boccaccio: The Decameron
Documents Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio
Documents Jean Froissart: The Chronicles of Froissart
Documents Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli
Documents Marchionne di Coppo Stefani: Florentine Chronicle
Documents Deeds of the Divine Augustus
Documents Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies”
Documents Christine de Pisan: The Treasure of the City of Ladies
Documents Joan of Arc: Letter to Henry VI
Documents Leon Alberti: On Painting
Documents Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici
Documents Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada
Documents Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus
Documents Alhambra Decree
Documents Christopher Columbus: Letter to Raphael Sanxis on the Discovery of America
Documents A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama
Documents Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince
Documents Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor”
Documents Letter of the Smyrnaeans on the Martyrdom of Polycarp
Documents Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Documents The Passion of Saints Perpetua and Felicity
Documents Laws Ending Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire
Documents Nicene Creed
Documents Julian the Apostate: Letter to Arsacius
Documents Plato: “Of Wealth, Justice, Moderation, and Their Opposites”
Documents Plato: “Allegory of the Cave”
Documents Quintus Aurelius Symmachus: Relation 3
Documents Bishop Ambrose: Reply to Symmachus
Documents Procopius: Alaric’s Sack of Rome
Documents Augustine of Hippo: City of God
Documents Salminius Hermias Sozomenus: Ecclesiastical History
Documents The Confession of Saint Patrick
Documents Bible: Letter of Paul to the Galatians
Documents Pope Gelasius I: Letter to Emperor Anastasius
Documents Holy Rule of Saint Benedict
Documents Code of Justinian
Documents Letters of Cassiodorus in the Name of Theodoric
Documents Gregory of Tours: History of the Franks
Documents Qur’an (Koran)
Documents Covenant of Umar I
Documents The Voyage of Bran
Documents Bishop Daniel of Winchester: Letter to Boniface on Conversion
Documents Bede: The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
Documents Plutarch: Life of Alexander
Documents Boniface: Letter to Pope Zacharias on the Foundation of the Monastery at Fulda
Documents Charlemagne: Capitulary for Saxony
Documents Charlemagne: Letter to Abbot Baugualf of Fulda
Documents Alcuin of York: Letter to Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne, about the Viking Raid
Documents Charlemagne: Great Capitulary
Documents Einhard: Life of Charlemagne
Documents Song of Hildebrand
Documents Annals of Xanten
Documents Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Documents Foundation Charter of the Order of Cluny
Documents Tacitus: Germania
Documents Synod of Charroux: Peace of God
Documents The Battle at Maldon