Western Civilization

Irish Monasticism and the Penitential(The

Penitential of Cummean) 159

A Byzantine Emperor Gives Military Advice

(Maurice,Strategikon) 166

CHAPTER 8

The Achievements of Charlemagne(Einhard,Life of

Charlemagne) 175

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:Lords and Vassals in

Europe and Japan(Bishop Fulbert of Chartres and

The Way of the Samurai) 185

A Western View of the Byzantine Empire

(Liudprand of Cremona,Antapodosis) 189

A Muslim’s Description of the Rus(Ibn Fadlan,

Description of the Rus) 192

CHAPTER 9

The Elimination of Medieval Forests(Suger’s

Search for Wooden Beams) 200

Women in Medieval Thought(Gratian,Decretumand

A Merchant of Paris on Marriage) 205

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:Two Views of Trade

and Merchants(Life of Saint Godricand Ibn Khaldun,

Prolegomena) 208

Goliardic Poetry: The Archpoet(The Archpoet,The

Confession of Golias) 215

CHAPTER 10

Magna Carta(Magna Carta) 225

A Miracle of Saint Bernard(A Miracle of Saint

Bernard) 235

Treatment of the Jews(Canon 68; An Accusation of

the Ritual Murder of a Christian Child by Jews; and

The Regulations of Avignon, 1243) 240

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:The Siege of

Jerusalem: Christian and Muslim Perspectives

(Fulcher of Chartres,Chronicle of the First Crusadeand

Account of Ibn al-Athir) 244

CHAPTER 11

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:Causes of the Black

Death(Giovanni Boccaccio,Decameron;On

Earthquakes as the Cause of Plague; and Herman Gigas

on Well Poisoning) 252

Boniface VIII’s Defense of Papal Supremacy

(Pope Boniface VIII,Unam Sanctam) 264

Dante’s Vision of Hell(Dante, ‘‘Inferno,’’Divine

Comedy) 266

A Liberated Woman in the Fourteenth Century

(The Testimony of Grazida Lizier) 270

CHAPTER 12

A Renaissance Banquet(A Sixteenth-Century

Banquet menu) 275

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:The Renaissance

Prince: The Views of Machiavelli and Erasmus

(Machiavelli,The Princeand Erasmus,Education of a

Christian Prince) 282

A Woman’s Defense of Learning(Laura Cereta,

Defense of the Liberal Instruction of Women) 285

The Genius of Leonardo da Vinci(Giorgio Vasari,

Lives of the Artists) 291

CHAPTER 13

Luther and the Ninety-Five Theses(Martin

Luther,Selections from the Ninety-Five Theses) 306

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:A Reformation

Debate: Conflict at Marburg(The Marburg

Colloquy) 311

Loyola and Obedience to ‘‘Our Holy Mother, the

Hierarchical Church’’(Ignatius of Loyola, ‘‘Rules for

Thinking with the Church’’) 318

Queen Elizabeth I: ‘‘I Have the Heart of a King’’

(Queen Elizabeth I, Speech at Tilbury) 322

CHAPTER 14

The Spanish Conquistador: Corte ́s and the

Conquest of Mexico(Corte ́s’s Description of

Tenochtitla ́n) 335

The Atlantic Slave Trade(Diary of a Citizen) 340

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS:West Meets East: An

Exchange of Royal Letters(A Letter to the King of

Tonkin from Louis XIV and Answer from the King of

Tonkin to Louis XIV) 343

The Mission(Felix de Azara,Description and History of

Paraguay and Rio de la Plata) 349

CHAPTER 15

A Witchcraft Trial in France(The Trial of Suzanne

Gaudry) 360

The King’s Day Begins(Duc de Saint-Simon,

Memoirs) 364

Documents xv

Copyright 2017 Cengage Learning. All Rights Reserved. May not be copied, scanned, or duplicated, in whole or in part. Due to electronic rights, some third party content may be suppressed from the eBook and/or eChapter(s).
Editorial review has deemed that any suppressed content does not materially affect the overall learning experience. Cengage Learning reserves the right to remove additional content at any time if subsequent rights restrictions require it.

`ˆÌi`Ê܈̅Ê̅iÊ`i“œÊÛiÀȜ˜ÊœvÊ

˜vˆÝÊ*ÀœÊ*Ê

`ˆÌœÀÊ

/œÊÀi“œÛiÊ̅ˆÃʘœÌˆVi]ÊۈÈÌ\Ê