| HST 121 | Readings |
| Topic | DOC# -- Author/Title -- (These DOCs are also on reserve in the WCC library) |
| Ancient Near East:
Mesopotama and the Hebrews |
1. Epic of Gilgamesh
2. Code of Hammurabi 3. Genesis 4. Exodus |
| Ancient Near East: Egypt | Film |
| Early Greece: Society, Religion
and the Polis |
5. Homer, Iliad
6. Euripides, The Condition of Women 7. Xenophon, Oikonomikos |
| The Rise and Fall of Athens | 8. Thucydides, Book II (Funeral Oration of Pericles) |
| The Hellenistic World | No DOCs |
| Rome's Rise to Power | 9. Sallust, Conspiracy of Catiline |
| Roman Society and Culture | BOOK: Casson, Everyday Life in Ancient Rome |
| Roman Empire | 10. Justinian, Institutes |
| Early Christianity | 11. Acts of the Apostles |
| The Decline of Rome and
the Rise of Germanic Europe |
12. Gildas, Concerning
the Ruin of Britain
13. Formulas concerning ordeals 14. Law of the Salian Franks |
| The Rise of Christian Culture | 15. Leo I, Sermon
on the Petrine Doctrine
16. Rule of St. Benedict |
| Byzantium and Islam | 17. The Qu'ran |
| The Rise and Fall
of Charlemagne |
18. Einhard, The
Life of Charlemagne
19. Notker the Stammerer, The Life of Charlemagne 20. Royal Frankish Annals (Handout) 21. Liber Pontificalis (Handout) 22. Alcuin of York, Letters (Handout) 23. Annals of Lorsch (Handout) |
| The Vikings | Film |
| Life in Medieval Europe | BOOK: Bennett, A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader... |
| Expansion: Population,
Towns and Trade |
24. Population Estimates
25. Account of setting up self-government: Ipswich 26. The Great Fair at Thessalonica |
| Religious Revival and
Reform |
27. Bernard Gui, Inquisitor's
Manual
28. Rule of the Franciscan Order |
| The Crusades | 29. Fulcher of Chartres,
Chronicle
30. Albert of Aix and Ekkehard of Aura: Slaughter of the Rhineland Jews |
| England, France, the Holy Roman Empire
and the Papacy |
31. Letter from Henry
IV to Gregory VII
32. Gregory VII's Deposition of Henry IV 33. Constitutions of Clarendon |
| Medieval Warfare | Film |
| Culture: Education, Literature
and Leisure Activities |
34. The Song of Roland
35. Bacche bene venies 36. Glückhaus |
| The Calamitous 14th Century | 37. Jean Froissart, Chronicles: English
knights seeking adventure [Non-WCC Website]
38. Jean Froissart, Chronicles: Rebellion in Paris [Non-WCC Website] 39. Jean Froissart, Chronicles: Peasant Revolt in England [Non-WCC Website] 40. Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron |
| The Renaissance | 41. Giovanni
Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man [Non-WCC
Website]
42. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince [Non-WCC Website] |
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