Western Civilization: Sources Images and Interpretations Volume 1 To 1700
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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 6,000 years of Western civilization. Its broa…
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Primary Sources
The Laws of Hammurabi
Visual Sources
Sumer: The “Royal Standard” of Ur (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Robert J. Braidwood, The Agricultural Revolution
Homer, The Iliad
Trade, Culture, and Colonization (photo)
Finley Hooper, Greek Realities: The Homeric Epics
Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War: The Historical Method
Education (photo)
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Goddess, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women and Work in
Athens
Polybius, Histories: The Roman Constitution
Evidence from Coins (photo)
Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City: Religious Practices
Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor
PART I CIVILIZATIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD
Chapter One 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
Robert J. Braidwood, The Agricultural Revolution
William H. McNeill, The Process of Civilization
Herbert J. Muller, Freedom in the Ancient World: Civilization in
Sumer
Henri Frankfort and H.A. Frankfort, The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient
Man
Lionel Casson, Daily Life in Ancient Egypt: The Afterlife
Barbara S. Lesko, Women of Egypt and the Ancient Near East
Paul Johnson, A History of the Jews
Chapter Two: 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
Frank J. Frost, The End of the Mycenaean World
Finley Hooper, Greek Realities: The Homeric Epics
Sarah B. Pomeroy, et al., Social Values and Ethics in the "Dark
Age" of Greece
C.M. Bowra, The Greek Experience: The Heroic Outlook
Chapter Three: 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
Sarah B. Pomeroy, Goddess, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women and Work in
Athens
Anthony Andrews, The Greeks: Slavery
M.I. Finley, The Ancient Greeks: Decline of the Polls
Richard Stoneman, Alexander the Great
Finley Hooper, Greek Realities
Chapter Four: 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
Fustel de Coulanges, The Ancient City: Religious Practices
J.P.V.D. Balsdon, Life and Leisure: The Roman Aristrocrat
Gillian Clark, Roman Women
Chapter Five: The Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
Primary Sources
Pliny the Younger, Letters: The Daily Life of a Roman Governor
Marcus Aurelius, 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
St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans
St. Augustine, The City of God
Ammianus Marcellinus, The Germanic Tribes
St. Jerome, The Fall of Rome
Visual Sources
Carved Gemstone: Augustus and the Empire Transformed (photo)
Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture(photo)
Secondary Sources
Chester G. Starr, The Roman Empire: The Place of Augustus
E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian: The Appeal of Christianity
Jo Ann McNamara, Women of the Roman Empire
A.H.M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire
PART II THE MIDDLE AGES
Chapter Six: 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
Henri Pirenne, Mohammed and Charlemagne: The Beginnings of
Medieval Civilization
David Nichols, The Carolingian West: The Genesis of Feudal Relationships
Daniel D. McGarry, An Evaluation of Feudalism
Jo Ann McNamara and Suzanne F. Wemple, Sanctity and Power: The
Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women
Chapter Seven: The Medieval East
Primary Sources
The Qur'an
Hasan al-Basri, Letter to Umar II: Islamic Asceticism
Avicenna, Autobiography of a Muslim Scholar
The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law
Ibn Fadlan, 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
Cyril Mango, Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History
Ira Lapidus, The Expansion of Islam
Albert Hourani, The Islamic World
Peter Brown, The Eastern Orientation of Islam
Chapter Eight: 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
Jaques Le Goff, Medieval Values
Margaret Wade Labarge, The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status
Aron Ja. Gurevich, The Merchant
R.W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People
Chapter Nine: The High Middle Ages: The Crusades and the East
Primary Sources
Pope Urban II, The Opening of the Crusades
Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders’ Motives
Pope Eugenius III, Inducements for the Crusades
Princess Anna Comnena, The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh, Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions
Visual Sources
Conflict and Cultural Exchange (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Christopher Tyerman, The Meaning of the Crusades
Thomas F. Madden, The Significance of
Robert Browning, The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience
Chapter Ten: The High Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century
Primary Sources
Pope Innocent III, Papal Proclamation of Supremacy
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis
St. Thomas Aquinas, 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
Maurice Keen, The Outlaws of Medieval Legend: Social Rank and Injustice
Jaques Rossiaud, Life in Cities: Violence and Fear
Georges Duby, Solitude
David Herlihy, Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change
Chapter Eleven: The Late Middle Ages
Primary Sources
Attack on the Papacy: The Conciliar Movement
Bernard Gui, Manual of the Inquisitor
Sir John Froissart, The Rebellions of 1381
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: The Plague in Florence
King Edward III, Statue of Laborers
Geoffrey Chaucer, 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
Francis Oakley, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
John Kelly, The Great Mortality
Millard Meiss, The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective
Hieonymus Bosch, The Waywain: Greed, Chaos, and Doom
PART III RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION
Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance
Primary Sources
Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts
Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Visual Sources
Quentin Massys, The Moneylender and his Wife
Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the
Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Chapter Thirteen: The Reformation
Primary Sources
John Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
Martin Luther, Justification by Faith
Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
John Calvin, 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)
Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Euan Cameron, What was the Reformation?
G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation
Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation
Chapter Fourteen: Overseas Expansion and New Politics
Primary Sources
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of
Guinea
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs
Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
Visual Sources
Frans Fracken II, 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
Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe
M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chapter Fifteen: War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
Visual Sources
Diego Valásquez, The Surrender of Breda (illustration)
Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and
illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Secondary Sources
Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical
Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
Secondary Sources
G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific
Revolution
Linda Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for
Women
St. Paul, Epistle to the Romans
St. Augustine, The City of God
Ammianus Marcellinus, The Germanic Tribes
St. Jerome, The Fall of Rome
Tomb Decoration: Death and Roman Culture(photo)
E.R. Dodds, Pagan and Christian: The Appeal of Christianity
Jo Ann McNamara, Women of the Roman Empire
A.H.M. Jones, The Later Roman Empire
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
Painting from an Illuminated Bible: Secular and Religious Authority (illustration)
Contraction in the Early Middle Ages (maps)
David Nichols, The Carolingian West: The Genesis of Feudal Relationships
Daniel D. McGarry, An Evaluation of Feudalism
Jo Ann McNamara and Suzanne F. Wemple, Sanctity and Power: The Dual Pursuit of Medieval Women
Hasan al-Basri, Letter to Umar II: Islamic Asceticism
Avicenna, Autobiography of a Muslim Scholar
The Institutes of Justinian: Byzantium and the Legacy of Roman Law
Ibn Fadlan, The Rus: Cross-Cultural Contact
Empress Theodors with her Retinue (illustration) The Byzantine Empire and the Expansion of Islam (maps)
Secondary Sources
Cyril Mango, Byzantium: The Empire of New Rome
Bernard Lewis, The Arabs in History
Ira Lapidus, The Expansion of Islam
Albert Hourani, The Islamic World
Peter Brown, The Eastern Orientation of Islam
Chapter Eight: 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
Jaques Le Goff, Medieval Values
Margaret Wade Labarge, The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status
Aron Ja. Gurevich, The Merchant
R.W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People
Chapter Nine: The High Middle Ages: The Crusades and the East
Primary Sources
Pope Urban II, The Opening of the Crusades
Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders’ Motives
Pope Eugenius III, Inducements for the Crusades
Princess Anna Comnena, The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh, Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions
Visual Sources
Conflict and Cultural Exchange (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Christopher Tyerman, The Meaning of the Crusades
Thomas F. Madden, The Significance of
Robert Browning, The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience
Chapter Ten: The High Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century
Primary Sources
Pope Innocent III, Papal Proclamation of Supremacy
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis
St. Thomas Aquinas, 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
Maurice Keen, The Outlaws of Medieval Legend: Social Rank and Injustice
Jaques Rossiaud, Life in Cities: Violence and Fear
Georges Duby, Solitude
David Herlihy, Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change
Chapter Eleven: The Late Middle Ages
Primary Sources
Attack on the Papacy: The Conciliar Movement
Bernard Gui, Manual of the Inquisitor
Sir John Froissart, The Rebellions of 1381
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: The Plague in Florence
King Edward III, Statue of Laborers
Geoffrey Chaucer, 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
Francis Oakley, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
John Kelly, The Great Mortality
Millard Meiss, The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective
Hieonymus Bosch, The Waywain: Greed, Chaos, and Doom
PART III RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION
Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance
Primary Sources
Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts
Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Visual Sources
Quentin Massys, The Moneylender and his Wife
Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the
Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Chapter Thirteen: The Reformation
Primary Sources
John Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
Martin Luther, Justification by Faith
Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
John Calvin, 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)
Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Euan Cameron, What was the Reformation?
G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation
Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation
Chapter Fourteen: Overseas Expansion and New Politics
Primary Sources
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of
Guinea
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs
Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
Visual Sources
Frans Fracken II, 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
Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe
M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chapter Fifteen: War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
Visual Sources
Diego Valásquez, The Surrender of Breda (illustration)
Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and
illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Secondary Sources
Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical
Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
Secondary Sources
G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific
Revolution
Linda Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for
Women
Peter Brown, The Eastern Orientation of Islam
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
The Bayeux Tapestry (illustration)
Medieval Expansion (maps)
Secondary Sources
Jaques Le Goff, Medieval Values
Margaret Wade Labarge, The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status
Aron Ja. Gurevich, The Merchant
R.W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People
Chapter Nine: The High Middle Ages: The Crusades and the East
Primary Sources
Pope Urban II, The Opening of the Crusades
Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders’ Motives
Pope Eugenius III, Inducements for the Crusades
Princess Anna Comnena, The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh, Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions
Visual Sources
Conflict and Cultural Exchange (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Christopher Tyerman, The Meaning of the Crusades
Thomas F. Madden, The Significance of
Robert Browning, The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience
Chapter Ten: The High Middle Ages: The Thirteenth Century
Primary Sources
Pope Innocent III, Papal Proclamation of Supremacy
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis
St. Thomas Aquinas, 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
Maurice Keen, The Outlaws of Medieval Legend: Social Rank and Injustice
Jaques Rossiaud, Life in Cities: Violence and Fear
Georges Duby, Solitude
David Herlihy, Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change
Chapter Eleven: The Late Middle Ages
Primary Sources
Attack on the Papacy: The Conciliar Movement
Bernard Gui, Manual of the Inquisitor
Sir John Froissart, The Rebellions of 1381
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: The Plague in Florence
King Edward III, Statue of Laborers
Geoffrey Chaucer, 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
Francis Oakley, The Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
John Kelly, The Great Mortality
Millard Meiss, The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective
Hieonymus Bosch, The Waywain: Greed, Chaos, and Doom
PART III RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION
Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance
Primary Sources
Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts
Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Visual Sources
Quentin Massys, The Moneylender and his Wife
Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the
Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Chapter Thirteen: The Reformation
Primary Sources
John Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
Martin Luther, Justification by Faith
Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
John Calvin, 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)
Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Euan Cameron, What was the Reformation?
G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation
Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation
Chapter Fourteen: Overseas Expansion and New Politics
Primary Sources
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of
Guinea
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs
Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
Visual Sources
Frans Fracken II, 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
Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe
M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chapter Fifteen: War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
Visual Sources
Diego Valásquez, The Surrender of Breda (illustration)
Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and
illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Secondary Sources
Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical
Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
Secondary Sources
G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific
Revolution
Linda Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for
Women
Margaret Wade Labarge, The Mold for Medieval Women: Social Status
Aron Ja. Gurevich, The Merchant
R.W. Southern, The Making of the Middle Ages: Serfdom
Marc Bloch, Feudal Society: The Psychic World of Medieval People
Ekkehard of Aurach, Crusaders’ Motives
Pope Eugenius III, Inducements for the Crusades
Princess Anna Comnena, The Alexiad: A Byzantine View of the Crusades
Usamah Ibn-Munqidh, Memoirs: European and Muslim Interactions
Thomas F. Madden, The Significance of
Robert Browning, The Byzantine Empire: Defeat, Decline, and Resilience
Archbishop Eudes of Rouen, A Church Register: Clerical Administration
St. Francis of Assisi, The Rule of St. Francis
St. Thomas Aquinas, 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
Secularization and the Medieval Knight (illustration)
Jaques Rossiaud, Life in Cities: Violence and Fear
Georges Duby, Solitude
David Herlihy, Ecological Conditions and Demographic Change
Bernard Gui, Manual of the Inquisitor
Sir John Froissart, The Rebellions of 1381
Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron: The Plague in Florence
King Edward III, Statue of Laborers
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
The Goodman of Paris: Instructions on Being a Good Wife
The Triumph of Death (illustration)
Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (map)
Food and Crime (chart)
John Kelly, The Great Mortality
Millard Meiss, The Black Death: A Socioeconomic Perspective
Hieonymus Bosch, The Waywain: Greed, Chaos, and Doom
PART III RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION
Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance
Primary Sources
Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts
Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Visual Sources
Quentin Massys, The Moneylender and his Wife
Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the
Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Chapter Thirteen: The Reformation
Primary Sources
John Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
Martin Luther, Justification by Faith
Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
John Calvin, 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)
Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Euan Cameron, What was the Reformation?
G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation
Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation
Chapter Fourteen: Overseas Expansion and New Politics
Primary Sources
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of
Guinea
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs
Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
Visual Sources
Frans Fracken II, 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
Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe
M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chapter Fifteen: War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
Visual Sources
Diego Valásquez, The Surrender of Breda (illustration)
Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and
illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Secondary Sources
Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical
Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
Secondary Sources
G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific
Revolution
Linda Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for
Women
PART III RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION
Chapter Twelve: The Renaissance
Primary Sources
Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism
Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts
Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies
Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier
Visual Sources
Quentin Massys, The Moneylender and his Wife
Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration)
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the
Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Chapter Thirteen: The Reformation
Primary Sources
John Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences
Martin Luther, Justification by Faith
Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
John Calvin, 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)
Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Euan Cameron, What was the Reformation?
G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation
Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation
Chapter Fourteen: Overseas Expansion and New Politics
Primary Sources
Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of
Guinea
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs
Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
Visual Sources
Frans Fracken II, 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
Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe
M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chapter Fifteen: War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
Visual Sources
Diego Valásquez, The Surrender of Breda (illustration)
Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and
illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Secondary Sources
Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical
Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
Secondary Sources
G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific
Revolution
Linda Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for
Women
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (illustration)
Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration)
Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance
Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance
Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance
Martin Luther, Justification by Faith
Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion: Predestination
Constitution of the Society of Jesus
Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection
Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration)
Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration)
G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation
John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation
Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation
Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation
Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493
Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs
Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics
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
Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe
M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World
Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America
PART IV THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD
Chapter Fifteen: War and Revolution: 1560-1660
Primary Sources
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France
Richelieu, Political Will and Testament
James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England
The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England
Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches
Visual Sources
Diego Valásquez, The Surrender of Breda (illustration)
Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration)
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and
illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Secondary Sources
Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Chapter Sixteen: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century
Primary Sources
Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical
Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Visual Sources
The Early Modern Chateau (photo)
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
Secondary Sources
G. Durand, Absolutism: Myth and Reality
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Chapter Seventeen: The Scientific Revolution
Primary Sources
Rene Descartes, The Discourse on Method
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
Visual Sources
A Vision of the New Science (illustration)
Secondary Sources
Sir George Clark, Early Modern Europe: Motives for the Scientific
Revolution
Linda Pollock, Childhood in Early Modern Times
Bonnie S. Anderson and Judith P. Zinsser, No Scientific Revolution for
Women
Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and illustration)
Germany and the Thirty Years’ War (maps)
Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years’ War
M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime
Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War
William Monter, The Devil’s Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations
Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia
Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France
John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power
Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration)
George Macaulay Trevelyan, The English Revolution, 1688-1689
Peter Laslett, The World We Have Lost: The Early Modern Family
Galileo Galilei, Letter to Christina of Tuscany: Science and Scripture
The Papal Inquisition of 1633: Galileo Condemned
Sir Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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 6,000 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.