Description: PART I. RENAISSANCE, REFORMATION, AND EXPANSION Chapter One: The Renaissance Primary Sources Francesco Petrarch, A Letter to Boccaccio: Literary Humanism Peter Paul Vergerio, On the Liberal Arts Christine de Pizan, The City of Ladies Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince Baldesar Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier Visual Sources Raphael, The School of Athens: Art and Classical Culture (illustration) Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride: Symbolism and the Northern Renaissance (illustration) Hans Holbein, Wealth, Culture, and Diplomacy (illustration) Secondary Sources Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy Peter Burke, The Myth of the Renaissance Federico Chabod, Machiavelli and the Renaissance Charles G. Nauert, Northern Sources of the Renaissance Chapter Two: The Reformation Primary Sources John Tetzel, The Spark for the Reformation: Indulgences Martin Luther, Justification by Faith Martin Luther, On the Bondage of the Will Martin Luther, Condemnation of Peasant Revolt John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion: Predestination Constitution of the Society of Jesus Teresa of Avila, The Way of Perfection Visual Sources Luther and the New Testament (illustration) Sebald Beham, Luther and the Catholic Clergy Debate (illustration) Peter Paul Rubens, Loyola and Catholic Reform (illustration) Secondary Sources Euan Cameron, What was the Reformation? G.R. Elton, A Political Interpretation of the Reformation John C. Olin, The Catholic Reformation Steven E. Ozment, The Legacy of the Reformation Marilyn J. Boxer and Jean H. Quataert, Women in the Reformation Chapter Three: Overseas Expansion and New Politics Primary Sources Gomes Eannes de Azurara, The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea Christopher Columbus, Letter to Lord Sanchez, 1493 Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Memoirs: The Aztecs Jacob Fugger, Letter to Charles V: Finance and Politics Visual Sources Frans Fracken II, The Assets and Liabilities of Empire (text and illustration) The Conquest of Mexico as Seen by the Aztecs (illustration) Exploration, Expansion, and Politics (maps) Secondary Sources Richard B. Reed, The Expansion of Europe M.L.Bush, The Effects of Expansion on the Non-European World Gary Nash, Red, White, and Black: The Peoples of Early America PART II. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD Chapter Four: War and Revolution: 1560-1660 Primary Sources Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Civil War in France Richelieu, Political Will and Testament James I, The Powers of the Monarch in England The House of Commons, The Powers of Parliament in England Heinrich Kramer and Jacob Sprenger, The Hammer of Witches Visual Sources Jan Brueghel and Sebastian Vranx, War and Violence (illustration) Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan: Political Order and Political Theory (text and illustration) Germany and the Thirty Years' War (maps) Secondary Sources Hajo Holborn, A Political Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War Carl J. Friedrich, A Religious Interpretation of the Thirty Years' War M.S. Anderson, War and Peace in the Old Regime Conrad Russell, The Causes of the English Civil War William Monter, The Devil's Handmaid: Women in the Age of Reformations Chapter Five: Aristocracy and Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century Primary Sources Philipp W. von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism Frederick William, The Great Elector, A Secret Letter: Monarchical Authority in Prussia Saint-Simon, Memoirs: The Aristocracy Undermined in France John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Legislative Power Visual Sources The Early Modern Chateau (photo) Pieter de Hooch, Maternal Care (illustration) S

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