History 112 Medieval & Early Modern History

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Course Texts:

Mark Kishlansky, Patrick Geary, and Patricia O’Brien. Civilization in the West, Volume B 1350 to 1850, Sixth Edition. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Thomas More,Utopia

Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

Paul Halsall, editor, Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Fordham U)

Paul Halsall, editor, Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Fordham U)

Jules R. Benjamin, A Student's Online Guide to History

Week I

  • The Study of History (Medieval Sourcebook)

    Early Modern Europe

  • The Medici Archive ProjectNEW!
  • Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies
  • Project Wittenberg
  • The Center for Reformed Theology and Apologetics
  • The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion
  • Documents of the Council of Trent

    Week II

    Jacob Burckhardt

  • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy

    Francesco Petrarch

  • Francesco Petrarch: Letters, c 1372
  • Selections from his Correspondences

    Pico della Mirandola

  • Oration on the Dignity of Man
  • Pico della Mirandola (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • Progetto Pico (Brown U)

    Vergerius

  • Petrus Paulus Vergerius: The New Education (c. 1400)

    Vasari

  • Giorgio Vasari: Life of Leonardo da Vinci 1550

    Lorenzo De Medici

  • Lorenzo De Medici: Paternal Advice To A Cardinal (C. 1491)

    Machiavelli

  • Political Morality? (Washington Post, 13 January 1999)
  • Nicolo Machiavelli(The Philosophy Pages)
  • Machiavelli Page
  • Nicolo Machiavelli Western Canon University Lighthouse (Discussion Group?)
  • The Executive - An updated version of "The Prince"
  • Machiavelli and the Renaissance (A Course at Denison U)
  • Machiavelli Links (Wheaton C)

    Erasmus

  • The Praise of Folly

    Week III

    Thomas More

  • Thomas More Links
  • Thomas More Page (Malaspina Great Books)
  • Thomas More Page (Oregon State U)
  • CGFA- Edward Matthew Ward: Sir Thomas More's Farewell to his Daughter WARNING! Large Graphic File
  • A Man for All Seasons (Internet Movie Database)
  • Utopia (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • St. Thomas More (Catholic Encyclopedia)
  • St. Dunstan's Church (More's Church)
  • Utopia Bibliography (EMLS)
  • Thomas More Societies

    Week IV

    Reformation

    General

  • The Reformation(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)

    Martin Luther

  • The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther
  • TO THE CHRISTIAN NOBILITY OF THE GERMAN NATION
  • Address to the Christian Nobility (Brief) (Hanover College)
  • Introduction to Address to the Christian Nobility (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Martin Luther(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Martin Luther
  • On the Freedom of A Christian WSU
  • Exsurge Domine
  • Martin Luther: The Jews and Their Lies (1543) (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Martin Luther: Letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, 1517 (Medieval Sourcebook)

    Ulrich Zwingli

  • Ulrich Zwingli(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Biographie Huldrych Zwinglis (1484-1531)(Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte)
  • Institut für schweizerische Reformationsgeschichte

    John Calvin

  • Calvin's Letter to the King of France (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • The Five Points of Calvinism (TULIP)
  • Institutes of the Christian Religion
  • "On Civil Government"(Richard Hooker, WSU)
  • John Calvin(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Calvinism(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Calvin on Prayer (Wheaton College)

    The English Reformation

  • The Suppression of Glastonbury Abbey 1539 (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • Cranmer Letter on Henry VIII's Divorce (Medieval Sourcebook)
  • The Thirty Nine Articles of Religion
  • "Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity"Richard Hooker,
  • The Pilgrim's ProgressJohn Bunyan
  • Erastus and Erastianism(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • Henry VIII(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • The 1646 Westminister Confession of Faith
  • The Church of England Website
  • The Book of Common Prayer

    The Catholic Reformation

  • The Council of Trent(Hanover Documents)
  • The Fathers of the Church
  • Documents of the Council of Trent: Session 5
  • Documents of the Council of Trent: Session 6
  • Documents of the Council of Trent: Session 7
  • The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • The Council of Trent(CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA)
  • St. Ignatius Loyola: Spiritual Exercises (Medival Sourcebook)

    Week V [Mid-Term]

    Week VI

    Elizabeth I (1558-1603)
  • The Virgin Queen
  • ADD. MS 8915: CAMBRIDGE VERSES FOR QUEEN ELIZABETH I, 1564(CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY)
  • SELECTED POETRY OF ELIZABETH I (1533-1603) <
  • The Elizabethan Homilies 1623
  • A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and how the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown by Richard Hooker
    James I (1603-1625)
  • The Gunpowder Plot Pages
  • Puritan Voices
    Charles I (1625-1649)
  • William Laud
  • The Petition of Right 1628
  • The Declaration of Sports

    Commonwealth and Protectorate

    Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector (1653-1658)
  • Oliver Cromwell: Constitutional Crisis in England
  • Notes on the Film "Cromwell" (1970)
  • English Civil War (Dr. Ellis Knox, Boise State University)
  • THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION OF FAITH (1646)
  • GEORGE FOX: An Autobiography
    Charles II (1660-1685)
  • The London Gazette (1674-1692)
    James II (1685-1688)
    William (1689-1702) and Mary (1689-1695)
  • BILL OF RIGHTS [1689]
    Anne (1702-1714)

    Hobbes

  • Hobbes Page

    Locke

  • A LETTER CONCERNING TOLERATION
  • AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING
  • CONCERNING CIVIL GOVERNMENT, SECOND ESSAY
  • Locke's Page
  • John Locke, Treatise on Civil Government

    The Glorious Revolution

  • The Bill of Rights (1689)

    Week VII

    The Scientific Revolution

  • Scientific Revolution(Dr. Ellis L. Knox, Boise State U.)
  • Scientific Revolution(Richard Hooker, Washington State U.)

    The Enlightenment

  • The European Enlightenment (Richard Hooker, Washington State U.)
  • Jean Le Rond d'Alembert: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
  • Voltaire: A Treatise on Toleration (1763)
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques: The Social Contract (1762)
  • Voltaire Foundation
  • The Hume Archives

    Week VIII

    Week IX

    French Revolution

  • Maximilien Robespierre: The Cult of the Supreme Being (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Maximilien Robespierre: On the Principles of Political Morality, February 1794 (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Maximilien Robespierre: Justification of the Use of Terror (Modern Sourcebook)
  • Napoleon's Account of the Internal Situation of France in 1804(Hanover Historical Texts Project)
  • Farewell to the Old Guard, April 29, 1814 (Modern Sourcebook)
  • DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND OF THE CITIZEN
  • Maps of the Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon
  • The Rights Of Man by Thomas Paine
  • The reign of Louis XVI (1774-1791)

    Week X

  • The Napoleon Series
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