The Social Dimension of Western Civilization, Volume I
by Golden, Richard M.Edition: 5th
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Pub. Date: 2003-01-22
Publisher(s): Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
Combining the latest scholarship with classic pieces,The Social Dimension of Western Civilization's48 secondary-source readings hook students with the fascinating and often surprising details of how everyday Western people worked, ate, played, celebrated, worshipped, married, procreated, fought, persecuted, behaved, and died.
Author Biography
RICHARD M. GOLDEN is professor of history and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of North Texas. He is author of The Godly Rebellion: Parisian Curés and the Religious Fronde, 1652-1662 (1981); editor of The Huguenot Connection: The Edict of Nantes, Its Revocation, and Early French Migration to South Carolina (1988); and editor of Church, State, and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France (1982). He coedited, with Thomas Kuehn, Western Societies: Primary Sources in Social History (1993). He is currently editing the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft: The Western Tradition,to be published in 2003.
Table of Contents
VOLUME 1: READINGS TO THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Preface
Contents
Topical Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Mesopotamia, Israel, and Egypt
Vern L. Bullough, Brenda Shelton, and Sarah Slavin, Formation of Western Attitudes Toward Women
Isaac Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East
Jean Soler, Why the Hebrews Kept Kosher
*T.G.H. James, Justice for Everybody in Imperial Egypt
Part 2. Classical Greece and Rome
William J. Baker, Organized Greek Games
*James Davidson, Women and Boys in Classical Athens
Suzanne Dixon, Roman Marriage
Paul Veyne, Pleasures and Excesses in the Roman Empire
Alex Scobie, Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World
Elaine Pagels, God the Father/God the Mother: The Gnostic Gospels and the Suppression of Early Christian Feminism
Part 3. The Middle Ages
Georges Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West
David Herlihy, Medieval Children
*Françoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane, The History of Working-Class Clothing
John Keegan, The Face of Battle: Agincourt, October 25th, 1415
*Michael Rocke, Gender and Sexual Culture in Renaissance Italy
R. Po-Chia Hsia, A Ritual Murder Trial of Jews in Germany
Norbert Elias, The Development of Manners
Part 4. Early Modern Europe
*Jared Diamond, Hemispheres Colliding: Eurasian and Native American Societies, 1492
*Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition and the People
Merry Wiesner, Nuns,Wives, and Mothers: Women and the Reformation in Germany
Natalie Z. Davis, The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France
Sara F. Matthews Grieco, The Body, Appearance, and Sexuality
Robin Briggs, The Witch-Figure and the Sabbat
*Raffaella Sarti, Material Conditions of Family Life
Acknowledgements
Preface
Contents
Topical Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1. Mesopotamia, Israel, and Egypt
Vern L. Bullough, Brenda Shelton, and Sarah Slavin, Formation of Western Attitudes Toward Women
Isaac Mendelsohn, Slavery in the Ancient Near East
Jean Soler, Why the Hebrews Kept Kosher
*T.G.H. James, Justice for Everybody in Imperial Egypt
Part 2. Classical Greece and Rome
William J. Baker, Organized Greek Games
*James Davidson, Women and Boys in Classical Athens
Suzanne Dixon, Roman Marriage
Paul Veyne, Pleasures and Excesses in the Roman Empire
Alex Scobie, Slums, Sanitation, and Mortality in the Roman World
Elaine Pagels, God the Father/God the Mother: The Gnostic Gospels and the Suppression of Early Christian Feminism
Part 3. The Middle Ages
Georges Duby, Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West
David Herlihy, Medieval Children
*Françoise Piponnier and Perrine Mane, The History of Working-Class Clothing
John Keegan, The Face of Battle: Agincourt, October 25th, 1415
*Michael Rocke, Gender and Sexual Culture in Renaissance Italy
R. Po-Chia Hsia, A Ritual Murder Trial of Jews in Germany
Norbert Elias, The Development of Manners
Part 4. Early Modern Europe
*Jared Diamond, Hemispheres Colliding: Eurasian and Native American Societies, 1492
*Henry Kamen, The Spanish Inquisition and the People
Merry Wiesner, Nuns,Wives, and Mothers: Women and the Reformation in Germany
Natalie Z. Davis, The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France
Sara F. Matthews Grieco, The Body, Appearance, and Sexuality
Robin Briggs, The Witch-Figure and the Sabbat
*Raffaella Sarti, Material Conditions of Family Life
Acknowledgements
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