HST 111 SP 2007
Primary Sources
Although many of the primary sources we will be examining this term will come from the ETEP reader, many others will be available on-line through the links highlighted below. Students should print out and read carefully each of the assigned passages prior to the discussion sectionwhen you will be talking about them. Most of these materials appear courtesy of the Internet History Sourcebooks Project (Homepage: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/), which is edited by Paul Halsall of Fordham University.
WEEK 1
NO READINGS THIS WEEK
WEEK 2
Xenophon, The Polity of the Spartans
Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration
Thucydides, The Melian Dialogue
ETEP, Ch. 1
WEEK 3
Polybius, Rome at the End of the Punic Wars
Selections from The Acts of the Divine Augustus
Tacitus, The End of the Republic
Excerpts from the Pliny and Trajan Correspondence
WEEK 4
ETEP, Ch. 2
WEEK 5
Procopius, Justinian Suppresses the Nika Revolt
Procopius, On the Great Church
WEEK 6
The Conversion of Clovis: Two Accounts
Einhard, The Life of Charlemagne
WEEK 7
Pope Leo I, The Petrine Doctrine
Pope Gregory VII, Dictatus Papae
WEEK 8
Pope Urban II, Speech at the Council of Clermont
Fulbert of Chartres, The Capture of Jerusalem
William Clito, Count of Flanders, Charter of the Town of St. Omer, 1127
ETEP, Ch. 3
Statutes of Gregory IX for the University of Paris, 1231
WEEK 9
Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam
Petrarch, Letter Condemning the Avignon Papacy
Boccaccio, Introduction to The Decameron
ETEP, Ch. 4
WEEK 10
Martin Luther, The Ninety-Five Theses
Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises (excerpts)
Council of Trent: Rules on Prohibited Books
WEEK 11
NO NEW READINGS THIS WEEK