2. Document Collections on Specialized Subjects Covering All or Part of the Time Span of this Course
Baumer, Franklin Le Van, ed. Main Currents of Western Thought: Readings in Western European Intellectual History from the Middle Ages to the Present. 4th ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1978. RVS: CB 203 .B35 1978
Bell, Susan G. comp. Women, from the Greeks to the French Revolution. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 1980. (Some of the materials are primary source documents. The remainder are secondary source essays. If you use this book as a primary source, be sure that you use primary source documents in it.) NRG HQ 1122 .B56 1980
Bettenson, Henry Scowcroft, ed. Documents of the Christian Church. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. RVS: BR 141 .B47 1976
Clendening, Logan, ed. A Source Book of Medical History. New York: Dover, [c.1942]. RGC, RVS: R 131 .C613 1960
Ehler, Sidney Z., and John B. Morral, eds. Church and State through the Centuries: A Collection of Historic Documents with Commentaries. New York: Biblo and Tannen, 1967. (Contents: “Reliable English translations of the most singificant official documents” concerning “the story of the Church’s relationship with the secular political power over twenty centuries of history.” Most documents are printed in their entirety. Scope: 113 A.D. to 1949.) RVS: BV 630 .A1 E37 1967
Hallo, William W., David Ruderman, and Michael Stanislawki, eds. Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, a Source Reader. New York: Praeger, 1984. RVS: DS 102 .H47 1984
Holt, Elizabeth G., ed. A Documentary History of Art. Vol. 1: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. RVS: N 5303 .D6 1981 V.1
Hutchins, Robert M., and Mortimer J. Adker, eds. in chief. Philosophical Essays. (Gateway to the Great Books.) Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica, 1963. (Excerpts of writings by Epicurus, Epicletus, Plutarch, Cicero.) RVS: PN 49 .P44 1963
Kobler, Franz, ed. Letters of Jews through the Ages: From Biblical Times to the Middle of the Eighteenth Century. 2 vols. New York: East and West Library, 1978. (Vol. 1: eighth century B.C. to fifteenth century A.D. Vol 2: sixteenth to eighteenth centuries. Ranges over nearly all countries where Jews have lived, over all languages they have written. Includes both public and private correspondence.) NRG: DS 102 .L37 1978
Leith, John, H., ed. Creeds of the Churches: A Reader in Christian Doctrine from the Bible to the Present. 3rd ed. Atlanta, Ga.: John Knox Press, 1982. RVS: BT 990 .C655 1982
MacArthur, Brian, ed. The Penguin Book of Historic Speeches. London, Engl.: Penguin Books, 1996. (Relevant sections are “Ancient Times” and “Of Commoners and Kings”. Many of the documents have been excerpted.) RVS: PN 6121 .P39 1996
Marcus, Jacob Rader. The Jew in the Medieval World: A Source Book, 315-1791. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hebrew Union College Press, 1990. RVS: DS 124 .M34 1990.
Meyer, Marvin W., ed. The Ancient Mysteries: A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999. (Includes, among others, Dionysos, the Great Mother, Isis and Osiris, Mithras, and mysteries within Judaism and Christianity. Some of the documents are selections from longer works.) RGC, RVS: BL 610 .A59 1999
Nagle, D. Brendan, and Stanley M. Burstein, eds. The Ancient World: Readings in Social and Cultural History. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1995. NRG: D 52 .A43 1995
Randall, John Herman, Jr., Justus Buchler, and Evelyn Shirk, eds. Readings in Philosophy. 3rd ed. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1972. (Excerpts from writings by Plato, Aristotle, Anselm, and Thomas Aquinas.) NRG, RGC: B 29 .R27 1972
Ravitch, Diane, and Abigail Themstrom, eds. The Democracy Reader: Classic and Modern Speeches, Essays, Poems, Declarations, and Documents on Freedom and Human Rights Worldwide. New York: HarperCollins, 1992. NRG: JC 421 .D4635 1992
Riha, Thomas, ed. Readings in Russian Civilization. 3 vols. Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 1969. (Vol. 1 covers years 900-1700. About 70% of the readings are primary sources; the remaining are secondary source essays by scholars. Students will need to distinguish carefully between the two kinds of sources. Subjects include folklore, social structure, politics, religion, and literature.). NRG: DK 4 .R52 1969
Walsh, Warren B., ed. Readings in Russian History: From Ancient Times to the Post-Stalin Era. 4th edition, extensively revised. Vol.I: From Ancient Times to Nicholas I. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse University Press, 1963. RVS: DK 3 .W3 1963 V.1
Wilkie, Brian, and James Hurt, eds. Literature of the Western World. Vol. I, The Ancient World Through the Renaissance. 2nd. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1988. (Contents contain works by many authors, among them Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Ovid, Dante, Chaucer, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Thomas More, Shakespeare, and Milton.) NRG, RGC, RVS: PN 6014 .L615 1988 V. 1. (A copy of Vol. 1 of the 1st edition [1984] is at RGC. Same call number except for ending date.)