Sources for Western Society, Volume 1
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Authors
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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Distinguished Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Concise History of the World. From 2017 to 2019 she served as the president of the World History Association.
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Clare Haru Crowston
Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of history at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women’s History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.
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John P. McKay
John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.
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Joe Perry
Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. His book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History appeared in 2010. He is currently writing a history of the Berlin Love Parade and the electronic dance music scene in Germany in the 1990s and 2000s.
Table of Contents
Please Note: Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16, Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30, and Since 1300 includes Chapters 11-30.
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Origins, to 1200 B.C.E.
1-1 A Mesopotamian Creation Myth
The Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat (ca. 2000-1000 B.C.E.)
1-2 The Quest for Eternal Life
The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2750 B.C.E.)
1-3 Society and Law in Ancient Babylonia
The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1780 B.C.E.)
1-4 A Declaration of Innocence
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (ca. 2100-1800)
1-5 Life Lessons from an Ancient Egyptian
The Precepts of Ptahotep (ca. 2650 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
The Great and Terrible Power of the Gods
1-6 AKHENATON, The Hymn to Aton (ca. 1350 B.C.E.)
1-7 Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (ca. 2000-1700 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 2 Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, 1200-510 B.C.E.
2-1 The Hebrews Explain Creation
Book of Genesis (ca. 950-450 B.C.E.)
2-2 The Hebrew Law and Covenant
Exodus and Deuteronomy (ca. 950-450 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Assyrian, Persian, and Hebrew Perceptions of Monarchy
2-3 Assyrian Kings Proclaim Their Greatness (ca. 1220-1070 B.C.E.)
2-4 CYRUS OF PERSIA, Ruling an Empire (ca. 550 B.C.E.)
2-5 Book of Samuel 8:1–10:27 (ca. 630-540 B.C.E.)
2-6 A Choice Between Good and Evil
ZOROASTER, Gatha 30: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds (ca. 600 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
Chapter 3 The Development of Greek Society and Culture, ca. 3000-338 B.C.E.
3-1 A Long Journey Home
HOMER, The Odyssey: Odysseus and the Sirens (ca. 800 B.C.E.)
3-2 Moral Instruction and Good Advice
HESIOD, Works and Days (ca. 800 B.C.E.)
3-3 A Clash of Loyalties
SOPHOCLES, Antigone (441 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Political Philosophy
3-4 THUCYDIDES, The History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’s Funeral Oration (ca. 400 B.C.E.)
3-5 PLATO, The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave (ca. 360 B.C.E.)
3-6 Choosing the Best State
ARISTOTLE, Politics: Democracy (ca. 340 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 4 Life in the Hellenistic World, 338-30 B.C.E.
4-1 Remembering a Legend
EPHIPPUS OF OLYNTHUS, On the Burial of Alexander and Hephaestion: Ephippus of Olynthus Remembers Alexander the Great (ca. 323 B.C.E.)
4-2 A Jewish Response to Hellenistic Rule
First and Second Books of the Maccabees (ca. 124-100 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Living the Good Life
4-3 DIOGENES LAERTIUS, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic (ca. 300-200 B.C.E.)
4-4 EPICURUS, The Principal Doctrines of Epicureanism (ca. 306 B.C.E.)
4-5 EPICTETUS, Encheiridion, or The Manual (ca. 100 C.E.)
4-6 A Greek View of Byzantium
POLYBIUS, A Greek Historian Describes Byzantium’s Contribution to Regional Trade (ca. 170-118 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 5 The Rise of Rome, ca. 1000-27 B.C.E.
5-1 The Moral Roots of the Republic
LIVY, The Rape of Lucretia (ca. 27-25 B.C.E.)
5-2 Roman Family Values
POLYBIUS, The Histories (ca. 160-140 B.C.E.)
5-3 An Effort to Resolve Social Conflict
The Laws of the Twelve Tables (449 B.C.E.)
5-4 Life in a Roman City
SENECA, The Sounds of a Roman Bath (ca. 50 C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Political Unrest in Rome
5-5- APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA, The Civil Wars (ca. 100 C.E.)
5-6 PLUTARCH, On Julius Caesar, a Man of Unlimited Ambition (ca. 44 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 6 The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E. – 284 C.E.
6-1 Romans and Barbarians
TACITUS, Germania (ca. 100 C.E.)
6-2 A Roman Seeks the Aid of an Egyptian Goddess
APULEIUS, The Golden Ass: The Veneration of Isis (ca. 170 C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Jews, Christians, and the Hebrew Law
6-3 The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount (28 C.E.)
6-4 PAUL OF TARSUS, Epistle to the Romans (ca. 57 C.E.)
6-5 Anti-Christian Sentiment
The Alexamenos Graffito (ca. 100 C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 7 Late Antiquity, 250-600
7-1 Church and State in Late Antiquity
SAINT AMBROSE OF MILAN, Emperor Theodosius Brought to Heel (390)
7-2 Rules for Monastic Living
SAINT BENEDICT OF NURSIA, The Rule of Saint Benedict (529)
7-3 Contrasting the Works of God with Those of Men
SAINT AUGUSTINE, City of God: The Two Cities (413-426)
7-4 Converting the Germanic Tribes to Catholicism
GREGORY OF TOURS, History of the Franks (593-594)
Sources in Conversation
The Rebirth of the Roman Empire in the East
7-5 EMPEROR JUSTINIAN, The Institutes of Justinian (529-533)
7-6 PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA, The Secret History (ca. 550)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 8 Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1000
8-1 A Muslim Describes the Conquest of Spain
IBN ABD-EL-HAKEM, The Conquest of Spain (ca. 870)
8-2 An Arab Account of the Frankish Defense of Gaul
ANONYMOUS ARAB SOURCE, The Battle of Poitiers (ca. 732)
Sources in Conversation
Conquest and Conversion
8-3 WILLIBALD, Saint Boniface Destroys the Oak of Thor (ca. 750)
8-4 CHARLEMAGNE, Capitulary for Saxony (ca. 775-790)
8-5 Instructions for Royal Envoys
CHARLEMAGNE, General Capitulary for the Missi (802)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 9 State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300
9-1 William the Conqueror Surveys His Kingdom
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book (1086)
9-2 Placing Limits on Royal Power
KING JOHN OF ENGLAND, Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties (1215)
9-3 A Pope and an Emperor Compete for Power
POPE GREGORY VII AND EMPEROR HENRY IV, Mutual Recriminations: The Investiture Controversy Begins (1076)
9-4 A Call for Crusade
ROBERT THE MONK OF RHEIMS, Urban II at the Council of Clermont (ca. 1120)
Sources in Conversation
The Response to Urban II’s Call for Holy War
9-5 GUIBERT OF NOGENT/ANNA COMNENA, Peter the Hermit and the "People’s Crusade" (ca. 1108-1148)
9-6 ANONYMOUS OF MAINZ, The Slaughter of the Jews (ca. 1096)
9-7 A Muslim Historian Recounts the Crusades
ALI IBN AL-ATHIR, The Complete History (1231)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 10 Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300
10-1 Life on a Medieval Manor
Manorial Records of Bernehorne (1307)
10-2 Medieval Workers
On Laborers: A Dialogue Between Teacher and Student (ca. 1000)
10-3 Life as a Medieval Guild Member
The Ordinances of London’s Leatherworkers (1346)
10-4 Medieval Clothing Laws
THE COMMUNE OF FLORENCE, A Sumptuary Law: Restrictions on Dress (1373)
Sources in Conversation
Synthesizing Reason and Faith
10-5 IBN RUSHD (AVERROES), Religion and Philosophy (ca. 1190)
10-6 SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologica: Proof of the Existence of God (1268)
10-7 An Author Relates a Popular Religious Story
JACQUES DE VITRY, The Virgin Mary Saves a Monk and His Lover (ca. 1200)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 11 The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450
11-1 The Psychological and Emotional Impact of the Plague
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, The Decameron: The Plague Hits Florence (ca. 1350)
11-2 A Town Chronicler Describes the Black Death
AGNOLO DI TURA, Sienese Chronicle (1348-1351)
11-3 Social and Economic Unrest in England
The Anonimalle Chronicle: The English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
11-4 Popular Religious Responses to the Plague
Flagellants in the Netherlands Town of Tournai (1349)
Sources in Conversation
Women and Power
11-5 CATHERINE OF SIENA, Letter to Gregory XI (1372)
11-6 The Debate over Joan of Arc’s Clothes (1429)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 12 European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550
12-1 An Italian Admirer of the Classical Past
PETRARCH, Letter to Livy (1350)
12-2 Power Politics During the Italian Renaissance
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, The Prince (1513)
12-3 A Description of the Ideal Courtier
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
12-4 A Humanist Prescription for the Education of Princes
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516)
12-5 A Female Author Argues for the Education of Women
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, The Book of the City of Ladies: Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good for Women to Be Educated (1404)
Sources in Conversation
A Female Painter Tells Stories About Women
12-6 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Susannah and the Elders (1610)
12-7 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Judith and Holofernes (1612)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 13 Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600
13-1 Martin Luther Takes a Stand
MARTIN LUTHER, Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences (1517)
13-2 Reformation Propaganda
HANS HOLBEING THE YOUNGER, Luther as the German Hercules (ca. 1519)
Sources in Conversation
The War on Witches
13-3 HEINRICH KRAMER, Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) (1487)
13-4 JEAN BODIN, On the Demon-Mania of Witches (1580)
13-5 Calvin Defines His Protestant Vision
JOHN CALVIN, The Institutes of Christian Religion (1559)
13-6 Training the Soldiers of Christ
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Rules for Right Thinking (1548)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 14 European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650
14-1 Columbus Sets the Context for His Voyage
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Diario (1492)
14-2 Cortés Describes the Conquest of the Aztecs
Hernán Cortés, Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs (1521)
Sources in Conversation
The Slave Trade in Africa
14-3 ALVISE DA CA’DA MOSTO, Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth- Century Slave Trade in West Africa (1455-1456)
14-4 KING NZINGA MBEMBA AFFONSO OF CONGO, Letters on the Slave Trade (1526)
14-5 Circumnavigating the Globe
Navigation and Voyage Which Ferdinand Magellan Made from Seville to Maluco in the Year 1519 (1519-1522)
14-6 A Critique of European "Superiority"
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Of Cannibals (1580)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 15 Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725
15-1 A French King Establishes Limited Religious Toleration
HENRY IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)
15-2 An Argument for the Divine Right of Kings
JEAN DOMAT, Of the Government and General Policy of a State (1689)
15-3 The English Place Limits on Monarchical Power
The Bill of Rights (1689)
15-4 A Tsar Imposes Western Styles on the Russians
PETER THE GREAT, Edicts and Decrees (1699-1723)
Sources in Conversation
The Commonwealth and the State of Nature
15-5 THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan (1651)
15-6 JOHN LOCKE, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution (1690)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 16 Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789
16-1 A New Model of the Solar System
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1542)
16-2 A Defense of Science
FRANCIS BACON, On Superstition and the Virtue of Science (1620)
16-3 A Defense of a Sun-Centered Universe
GALILEO GALILEI, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany (1615)
Sources in Conversation
Monarchical Power and Responsibility
16-4 CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers (1748)
16-5 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will (1762)
16-6 A Philosophe Argues for Religious Toleration
VOLTAIRE, A Treatise on Toleration (1763)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
Product Updates
More than thirty new documents – including several compelling images – offer increased representation of minority perspectives. These new documents include several new sources by and about women and particularly increase the sources featuring Muslim perspectives, including Muslim accounts comparing two sieges of Jerusalem during the Crusades, excerpts from one of Emmeline Pankhurst’s speeches, and writings by Abdolkarim Soroush, an Iranian Muslim reformist scholar.
New Read and Compare questions help students read the sources with purpose and consider their similarities and differences. Placed before the collected sources in every "Sources in Conversation" feature, these new questions are designed to have students analyze each feature’s documents while also considering the different perspectives offered in each, and how they’re affected by a variety of factors such as location, social status, or even religion.
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Authors
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Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin–Madison) is Distinguished Professor of History, emerita, at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. She is the long-time Senior Editor of the Sixteenth Century Journal and the author or editor of more than thirty books, including A Concise History of the World. From 2017 to 2019 she served as the president of the World History Association.
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Clare Haru Crowston
Clare Haru Crowston (Ph.D., Cornell University) is Professor of history at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Credit, Fashion, Sex: Economies of Regard in Old Regime France and Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675–1791, which won the Berkshire and Hagley Prizes. She edited two special issues of the Journal of Women’s History, has published numerous journal articles and reviews, and is a past president of the Society for French Historical Studies.
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John P. McKay
John P. McKay (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is professor emeritus at the University of Illinois. He has written or edited numerous works, including the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize-winning book Pioneers for Profit: Foreign Entrepreneurship and Russian Industrialization, 1885-1913.
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Joe Perry
Joe Perry (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor of modern German and European history at Georgia State University. His book Christmas in Germany: A Cultural History appeared in 2010. He is currently writing a history of the Berlin Love Parade and the electronic dance music scene in Germany in the 1990s and 2000s.
Table of Contents
Please Note: Volume 1 includes Chapters 1-16, Volume 2 includes Chapters 14-30, and Since 1300 includes Chapters 11-30.
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Origins, to 1200 B.C.E.
1-1 A Mesopotamian Creation Myth
The Battle Between Marduk and Tiamat (ca. 2000-1000 B.C.E.)
1-2 The Quest for Eternal Life
The Epic of Gilgamesh (ca. 2750 B.C.E.)
1-3 Society and Law in Ancient Babylonia
The Code of Hammurabi (ca. 1780 B.C.E.)
1-4 A Declaration of Innocence
The Egyptian Book of the Dead (ca. 2100-1800)
1-5 Life Lessons from an Ancient Egyptian
The Precepts of Ptahotep (ca. 2650 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
The Great and Terrible Power of the Gods
1-6 AKHENATON, The Hymn to Aton (ca. 1350 B.C.E.)
1-7 Lamentation over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur (ca. 2000-1700 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 2 Small Kingdoms and Mighty Empires in the Near East, 1200-510 B.C.E.
2-1 The Hebrews Explain Creation
Book of Genesis (ca. 950-450 B.C.E.)
2-2 The Hebrew Law and Covenant
Exodus and Deuteronomy (ca. 950-450 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Assyrian, Persian, and Hebrew Perceptions of Monarchy
2-3 Assyrian Kings Proclaim Their Greatness (ca. 1220-1070 B.C.E.)
2-4 CYRUS OF PERSIA, Ruling an Empire (ca. 550 B.C.E.)
2-5 Book of Samuel 8:1–10:27 (ca. 630-540 B.C.E.)
2-6 A Choice Between Good and Evil
ZOROASTER, Gatha 30: Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds (ca. 600 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
Chapter 3 The Development of Greek Society and Culture, ca. 3000-338 B.C.E.
3-1 A Long Journey Home
HOMER, The Odyssey: Odysseus and the Sirens (ca. 800 B.C.E.)
3-2 Moral Instruction and Good Advice
HESIOD, Works and Days (ca. 800 B.C.E.)
3-3 A Clash of Loyalties
SOPHOCLES, Antigone (441 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Political Philosophy
3-4 THUCYDIDES, The History of the Peloponnesian War: Pericles’s Funeral Oration (ca. 400 B.C.E.)
3-5 PLATO, The Republic: The Allegory of the Cave (ca. 360 B.C.E.)
3-6 Choosing the Best State
ARISTOTLE, Politics: Democracy (ca. 340 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 4 Life in the Hellenistic World, 338-30 B.C.E.
4-1 Remembering a Legend
EPHIPPUS OF OLYNTHUS, On the Burial of Alexander and Hephaestion: Ephippus of Olynthus Remembers Alexander the Great (ca. 323 B.C.E.)
4-2 A Jewish Response to Hellenistic Rule
First and Second Books of the Maccabees (ca. 124-100 B.C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Living the Good Life
4-3 DIOGENES LAERTIUS, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers: Diogenes of Sinope, the Cynic (ca. 300-200 B.C.E.)
4-4 EPICURUS, The Principal Doctrines of Epicureanism (ca. 306 B.C.E.)
4-5 EPICTETUS, Encheiridion, or The Manual (ca. 100 C.E.)
4-6 A Greek View of Byzantium
POLYBIUS, A Greek Historian Describes Byzantium’s Contribution to Regional Trade (ca. 170-118 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 5 The Rise of Rome, ca. 1000-27 B.C.E.
5-1 The Moral Roots of the Republic
LIVY, The Rape of Lucretia (ca. 27-25 B.C.E.)
5-2 Roman Family Values
POLYBIUS, The Histories (ca. 160-140 B.C.E.)
5-3 An Effort to Resolve Social Conflict
The Laws of the Twelve Tables (449 B.C.E.)
5-4 Life in a Roman City
SENECA, The Sounds of a Roman Bath (ca. 50 C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Political Unrest in Rome
5-5- APPIAN OF ALEXANDRIA, The Civil Wars (ca. 100 C.E.)
5-6 PLUTARCH, On Julius Caesar, a Man of Unlimited Ambition (ca. 44 B.C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 6 The Roman Empire, 27 B.C.E. – 284 C.E.
6-1 Romans and Barbarians
TACITUS, Germania (ca. 100 C.E.)
6-2 A Roman Seeks the Aid of an Egyptian Goddess
APULEIUS, The Golden Ass: The Veneration of Isis (ca. 170 C.E.)
Sources in Conversation
Jews, Christians, and the Hebrew Law
6-3 The Gospel According to Matthew: The Sermon on the Mount (28 C.E.)
6-4 PAUL OF TARSUS, Epistle to the Romans (ca. 57 C.E.)
6-5 Anti-Christian Sentiment
The Alexamenos Graffito (ca. 100 C.E.)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 7 Late Antiquity, 250-600
7-1 Church and State in Late Antiquity
SAINT AMBROSE OF MILAN, Emperor Theodosius Brought to Heel (390)
7-2 Rules for Monastic Living
SAINT BENEDICT OF NURSIA, The Rule of Saint Benedict (529)
7-3 Contrasting the Works of God with Those of Men
SAINT AUGUSTINE, City of God: The Two Cities (413-426)
7-4 Converting the Germanic Tribes to Catholicism
GREGORY OF TOURS, History of the Franks (593-594)
Sources in Conversation
The Rebirth of the Roman Empire in the East
7-5 EMPEROR JUSTINIAN, The Institutes of Justinian (529-533)
7-6 PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA, The Secret History (ca. 550)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 8 Europe in the Early Middle Ages, 600-1000
8-1 A Muslim Describes the Conquest of Spain
IBN ABD-EL-HAKEM, The Conquest of Spain (ca. 870)
8-2 An Arab Account of the Frankish Defense of Gaul
ANONYMOUS ARAB SOURCE, The Battle of Poitiers (ca. 732)
Sources in Conversation
Conquest and Conversion
8-3 WILLIBALD, Saint Boniface Destroys the Oak of Thor (ca. 750)
8-4 CHARLEMAGNE, Capitulary for Saxony (ca. 775-790)
8-5 Instructions for Royal Envoys
CHARLEMAGNE, General Capitulary for the Missi (802)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 9 State and Church in the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300
9-1 William the Conqueror Surveys His Kingdom
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: William the Conqueror and the Domesday Book (1086)
9-2 Placing Limits on Royal Power
KING JOHN OF ENGLAND, Magna Carta: The Great Charter of Liberties (1215)
9-3 A Pope and an Emperor Compete for Power
POPE GREGORY VII AND EMPEROR HENRY IV, Mutual Recriminations: The Investiture Controversy Begins (1076)
9-4 A Call for Crusade
ROBERT THE MONK OF RHEIMS, Urban II at the Council of Clermont (ca. 1120)
Sources in Conversation
The Response to Urban II’s Call for Holy War
9-5 GUIBERT OF NOGENT/ANNA COMNENA, Peter the Hermit and the "People’s Crusade" (ca. 1108-1148)
9-6 ANONYMOUS OF MAINZ, The Slaughter of the Jews (ca. 1096)
9-7 A Muslim Historian Recounts the Crusades
ALI IBN AL-ATHIR, The Complete History (1231)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 10 Life in Villages and Cities of the High Middle Ages, 1000-1300
10-1 Life on a Medieval Manor
Manorial Records of Bernehorne (1307)
10-2 Medieval Workers
On Laborers: A Dialogue Between Teacher and Student (ca. 1000)
10-3 Life as a Medieval Guild Member
The Ordinances of London’s Leatherworkers (1346)
10-4 Medieval Clothing Laws
THE COMMUNE OF FLORENCE, A Sumptuary Law: Restrictions on Dress (1373)
Sources in Conversation
Synthesizing Reason and Faith
10-5 IBN RUSHD (AVERROES), Religion and Philosophy (ca. 1190)
10-6 SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS, Summa Theologica: Proof of the Existence of God (1268)
10-7 An Author Relates a Popular Religious Story
JACQUES DE VITRY, The Virgin Mary Saves a Monk and His Lover (ca. 1200)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 11 The Later Middle Ages, 1300-1450
11-1 The Psychological and Emotional Impact of the Plague
GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, The Decameron: The Plague Hits Florence (ca. 1350)
11-2 A Town Chronicler Describes the Black Death
AGNOLO DI TURA, Sienese Chronicle (1348-1351)
11-3 Social and Economic Unrest in England
The Anonimalle Chronicle: The English Peasants’ Revolt (1381)
11-4 Popular Religious Responses to the Plague
Flagellants in the Netherlands Town of Tournai (1349)
Sources in Conversation
Women and Power
11-5 CATHERINE OF SIENA, Letter to Gregory XI (1372)
11-6 The Debate over Joan of Arc’s Clothes (1429)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 12 European Society in the Age of the Renaissance, 1350-1550
12-1 An Italian Admirer of the Classical Past
PETRARCH, Letter to Livy (1350)
12-2 Power Politics During the Italian Renaissance
NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI, The Prince (1513)
12-3 A Description of the Ideal Courtier
BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONE, The Book of the Courtier (1528)
12-4 A Humanist Prescription for the Education of Princes
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS, The Education of a Christian Prince (1516)
12-5 A Female Author Argues for the Education of Women
CHRISTINE DE PIZAN, The Book of the City of Ladies: Against Those Men Who Claim It Is Not Good for Women to Be Educated (1404)
Sources in Conversation
A Female Painter Tells Stories About Women
12-6 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Susannah and the Elders (1610)
12-7 ARTEMISIA GENTILESCHI, Judith and Holofernes (1612)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 13 Reformations and Religious Wars, 1500-1600
13-1 Martin Luther Takes a Stand
MARTIN LUTHER, Ninety-five Theses on the Power of Indulgences (1517)
13-2 Reformation Propaganda
HANS HOLBEING THE YOUNGER, Luther as the German Hercules (ca. 1519)
Sources in Conversation
The War on Witches
13-3 HEINRICH KRAMER, Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches) (1487)
13-4 JEAN BODIN, On the Demon-Mania of Witches (1580)
13-5 Calvin Defines His Protestant Vision
JOHN CALVIN, The Institutes of Christian Religion (1559)
13-6 Training the Soldiers of Christ
IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA, Rules for Right Thinking (1548)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 14 European Exploration and Conquest, 1450-1650
14-1 Columbus Sets the Context for His Voyage
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Diario (1492)
14-2 Cortés Describes the Conquest of the Aztecs
Hernán Cortés, Two Letters to Charles V: On the Conquest of the Aztecs (1521)
Sources in Conversation
The Slave Trade in Africa
14-3 ALVISE DA CA’DA MOSTO, Description of Capo Bianco and the Islands Nearest to It: Fifteenth- Century Slave Trade in West Africa (1455-1456)
14-4 KING NZINGA MBEMBA AFFONSO OF CONGO, Letters on the Slave Trade (1526)
14-5 Circumnavigating the Globe
Navigation and Voyage Which Ferdinand Magellan Made from Seville to Maluco in the Year 1519 (1519-1522)
14-6 A Critique of European "Superiority"
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE, Of Cannibals (1580)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 15 Absolutism and Constitutionalism, ca. 1589-1725
15-1 A French King Establishes Limited Religious Toleration
HENRY IV, Edict of Nantes (1598)
15-2 An Argument for the Divine Right of Kings
JEAN DOMAT, Of the Government and General Policy of a State (1689)
15-3 The English Place Limits on Monarchical Power
The Bill of Rights (1689)
15-4 A Tsar Imposes Western Styles on the Russians
PETER THE GREAT, Edicts and Decrees (1699-1723)
Sources in Conversation
The Commonwealth and the State of Nature
15-5 THOMAS HOBBES, Leviathan (1651)
15-6 JOHN LOCKE, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution (1690)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
CHAPTER 16 Toward a New Worldview, 1540-1789
16-1 A New Model of the Solar System
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (1542)
16-2 A Defense of Science
FRANCIS BACON, On Superstition and the Virtue of Science (1620)
16-3 A Defense of a Sun-Centered Universe
GALILEO GALILEI, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany (1615)
Sources in Conversation
Monarchical Power and Responsibility
16-4 CHARLES DE SECONDAT, BARON DE MONTESQUIEU, The Spirit of Laws: On the Separation of Governmental Powers (1748)
16-5 JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU, The Social Contract: On Popular Sovereignty and the General Will (1762)
16-6 A Philosophe Argues for Religious Toleration
VOLTAIRE, A Treatise on Toleration (1763)
Comparative and Discussion Questions
Product Updates
More than thirty new documents – including several compelling images – offer increased representation of minority perspectives. These new documents include several new sources by and about women and particularly increase the sources featuring Muslim perspectives, including Muslim accounts comparing two sieges of Jerusalem during the Crusades, excerpts from one of Emmeline Pankhurst’s speeches, and writings by Abdolkarim Soroush, an Iranian Muslim reformist scholar.
New Read and Compare questions help students read the sources with purpose and consider their similarities and differences. Placed before the collected sources in every "Sources in Conversation" feature, these new questions are designed to have students analyze each feature’s documents while also considering the different perspectives offered in each, and how they’re affected by a variety of factors such as location, social status, or even religion.
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Sources for Western Society provides a variety of primary sources to accompany A History of Western Society, Thirteenth Edition. With over thirty new selections – including several compelling visual sources – and enhanced pedagogy throughout, students are given the tools to engage critically with canonical and lesser known sources. Each chapter includes a "Sources in Conversation" feature that asks students to analyze aspects of differing views on key topics.
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