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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, Decretum and A Merchant of Paris on Marriage) 205
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS: Two Views of Trade and Merchants (Life of Saint Godric and 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 Crusade and 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 Prince and 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
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