History
Subtitle: selected readings
By: the University of Chicago, the College.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Chicago
Published: 1948
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Subjects: History -- Sources
Notes: De monarchia (selections) / Dante -- Laicization of French and English society in the thirteenth century / J.R. Strayer -- Documents and notes relating to the development of the English government -- Life of St. Francis of Assisi / Bonaventura -- Mirror of perfection / St. Francis of Assisi -- Testament / St. Francis of Assisi -- Hymn to the sun / St. Francis of Assisi -- Rule of the Friars Minor, 1223 -- Breviloquium (selections) / Bonaventura -- Renaissance and Reformation / Ernst Troeltsch -- Secret (Dialogue II) / Francesco Petrarch -- Discources on Livy (selections) / Niccolo Machiavelli -- Utopia (selections) / Thomas More.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Constitution of the Athenians / Aristotle; title: The Persians / Aeschylus; title: The knights / Aristophanes; title: On the Athenian republic / The Old Oligarch; title: Peloponnesian War; title: The achivement of Augustus; title: The Annals / Tacitus; title: Res gestae / Augustus; title: Against Celsus (selections) / Origen; title: The edict of Milan; title: Three letters / Emperor Constantine; title: Two letters / St. Ambrose; title: The Nicene creed; title: The oriental despotism and the problem of the decay of ancient civilization / M. Rostovtzeff (from his Social and economic history of the Roman Empire); title: The decline of the Roman power in Western Europe / N.H. Baynes; title: Confessions (selections) / St. Augustine; title: The city of God / C. Dawson (from A monument to St. Augustine); title: Epode XVI / Horace; title: Fourth ecolgue / Vergil; title: The making of Europe / C. Dawson; title: v. 2. Peasant life and rural conditions / Eileen Power; title: Husbandry (selections) / Walter of Henley; title: Northern towns and their commerce / Henri Pirenne; title: The Italian cities til c. 1200 / C.W. Previté-Orton; title: Two documents from Douai; title: Policraticus (selections) / John of Salisbury; title: The Holy Roman Empire / James Bryce; title: Papacy and empire (selected documents)