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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.)