Joan Mickelson-Gaughan

Milestones in Western Civilization

Selected Readings, Ancient Greece Through the Middle Ages

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This three-volume anthology contains excerpts and full-length articles from primary source materials in European history. Documents have been selected on the basis of their inherent historical value, their ability to illuminate a particular period, and their readability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Scarecrow Press
• Seitenzahl: 447
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 163mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780810821880
• ISBN-10: 0810821885
• Artikelnr.: 21307139

Autorenporträt

By Joan Mickelson-Gaughan

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 General Introduction
Part 2 Preface to Volume II
Chapter 3 I. Medieval Background
Chapter 4 II. Fourteenth Century
Part 5 Unam Sanctam, 1302
Part 6 Francesco Petrach, " Against the Papal Court"
Part 7 From the Decrees of the Council of Constance
Part 8 Henry Knighton, "The Impact of the Black Death"
Part 9 Anonimalle Chronicles, "The Peasant's Revolt in England"
Part 10 Jean Froissart from the Chronicles
Chapter 11 III. Renaissance
Part 12 Frnacesco Petrarch, "Laura, Heaven's Ideal"
Part 13 Giovanni Boccaccio from The Decameron
Part 14 Giovanni Pico della Mirandoal from On the Dignity of Man
Part 15 Baldesar Castiglione from The Book of the Courtier
Part 16 Niccolo Machiavelli from The Prince
Part 17 Desiderius Erasmus from In Praise of Folly
Part 18 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, "The Means to Attain a Happy Life"
Chapter 19 IV. Reformation
Part 20 St. Teresa of Avila from Interior Castle
Part 21 Martin Luther from The Ninety-five Theses, 1517
Part 22 Martin Luther To His Most Serene and Mighty Imperial Majesty and to
the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
Part 23 Peasants' Revolt, 1525
Part 24 The Peace of Augsburg, 1555
Part 25 John Calvin from The Institutes of the Christian Religion
Part 26 The Supremacy Act, 1534
Part 27 John Foxe, from Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous
Days
Part 28 Ignatius Loyola from Spiritual Exercises
Part 29 From Proceedings of the Council of Trent
Part 30 From the Edict of Nantes
Chapter 31 V. Scientific Revolution
Part 32 Nicolaus Copernicus from On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
Part 33 Galileo Galilei from Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World
Systems
Part 34 Francis Bacon from The New Organon
Part 35 John Locke from Essay Concerning Human Understanding of Ideas in
General and Their Origin
Part 36 Rene Descartes from Discourse on Method
Part 37 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz from Philosophical Writings
Part 38 Blaise Pascal from Pensees
Chapter 39 VI Enlightenment
Part 40 Thomas Hobbes from Leviathan
Part 41 John Locke from Second Treatise on Government
Part 42 Charles Louis de Secondat Baron do Montesqueieu from Spirit of the
Laws
Part 43 Adam SMith from WEalth of Nations
Part 44 Alexander Pope from "Essay on Man"
Part 45 John Suckling, "Constancy"
Part 46 Voltaire from Candide
Chapter 47 VII. Age of Power
Part 48 Louis XIV, Selected Readings
Part 49 Peter the Great, 'Decrees on Western Dress and Shaving"
Part 50 Marie Theresa from Memoirs
Part 51 Petition of Right, 1628
Part 52 Sentenceof Charles I
Part 53 The English Bill of Rights, 1688
Chapter 54 VIII. Enlightened Depotism
Part 55 Frederick the Great, Selected REadings
Part 56 Catherine the Great, from Her Diary
Part 57 Decrees Establishing the Legislative Commission
Part 58 Charter of Nobility, 1785
Part 59 Jean-Jacques Rousseau from Social Contract
Chapter 60 XI. French Revolution
Chapter 61 Emmanuel Joseph Seives from What is the Third Estate?
Part 62 The Tennis Court Oath
Part 63 The August 4 Decrees
Part 64 Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Part 65 From the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, 1791
Part 66 The Duke of Brunswick's Manifesto, July 25, 1792
Part 67 The Storming of the Tuileries
Part 68 Decree for the Levee en Masse, August 23, 1793
Part 69 The Law of Suspects, September 17, 1793
Part 70 Maximilien Ropbespierre on the Cult of the Supreme Being, May 7,
1794
Chapter 71 X. Napoleon
Part 72 Conventions between the French Governement and Pius VII
Part 73 The Berlin Decrees
Part 74 British Order in Council
Part 75 Napoleon Reflects on the Russian Campaign
Part 76 Alexander I's Manifesto on Napoleon's Retreat from Russia
Part 77 Naopleon Returns from Elba
Part 78 Napoleon Reflects on His Career
Part 79 Holy Alliance, 1815