Worlds of history [Texte imprimé] : a comparative reader. Vol. 1, To 1550 [Texte imprimé] / Kevin Reilly

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Prehistory and the origins of patriarchy : gathering, agricultural, and urban societies, 40,000 - 1000 B.C.E. -- Were the first artists mostly women? / Virginia Hughes -- The "Venus" figurines: textiles, basketry, gender, and status in the upper paleolithic / Olga Soffer, James M. Adovasio, and David C. Hyland -- Paleolithic and neolithic art from Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, c.15000-2000 B.C.E. -- Women in prehistory / Margaret Ehrenberg -- Women in the first urban communities / Catherine Clay, Chandrika Paul, and Christine Senecal -- The urban revolution and "civilization" : ancient societies in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Peru, 3500 - 1000 B.C.E. -- Cities and civilizations / Kevin Reilly -- The epic of Gilgamesh -- The exaltation of Inana / Enheduanna -- Hammurabi's Code -- The tale of the eloquent peasant -- Images from Hunefer's Book of the dead -- An Assyrian law and a palace decree -- First city in the New World? / Smithsonian Magazine -- Identity in caste and territorial societies : Greece and India, 1000 - 300 B.C.E. -- Greek and Indian civilization / William H. McNeill -- The Rig Veda: sacrifice as creation -- The Upanishads: karma and reincarnation -- The Upanishads: Brahman and Atman -- The Bhagavad Gita: caste and self -- The Athenian constitution: territorial sovereignty / Aristotle -- The funeral oration of Pericles / Thucydides -- The republic / Plato -- Empire and government : China and Rome, 300 B.C.E. - 300 C.E. -- The Analects / Confucius -- Daoism: The way and the power / Laozi -- Legalism / Han Fei -- A record of the debate on salt and iron -- Rome: the arts of government / Nicholas Purcell -- Letter to his brother Quintus / Cicero -- Correspondence between Pliny and Trajan -- Meditations / Marcus Aurelius -- Gender, sex, and love in classical societies : India, China, and the Mediterranean, 500 B.C.E. - 550 C.E. -- Women in the classical era / Sarah Shaver Hughes and Brady Hughes -- Lessons for women / Ban Zhao -- On the conduct of wives, husbands, and women of the harem / Vatsyana -- The symposium / Plato -- The art of love / Ovid -- Depictions of gender in classical societies -- From tribal to universal religion : Hindu-Buddhist and Judeo-Christian traditions, 1000 B.C.E. - 100 C.E. -- Hinduism: Svetasvatara Upanishad -- Buddhism: Gotama's discovery -- Buddhism and caste -- Mahayana Buddhism: the lotus sutra -- Judaism and the Bible: history, laws, and psalms -- Judaism and the Bible: prophecy and the apocalypse -- The Christian Bible: Jesus according to Matthew -- Letters / Paul -- The spread of universal religions : Afro-Eurasia, 100 - 1000 C.E. -- The invention of the Jewish people / Shlomo Sand -- Life of Constantine / Eusebius -- Christianity in China: the Nestorian monument -- Buddhism in China: the disposition of error -- Selections from the Quran -- The Islamization of the Silk Road / Richard C. Foltz -- Peace terms with Jerusalem -- Epic of Sundiata -- Migrations, trade, and travel: the movement of people, goods, and ideas in Eurasia, Africa, and the Pacific, 3000 B.C.E. - 1350 C.E. -- Austronesian, Indo-European, and Bantu migrations / Patrick Manning -- Southernization / Lynda Norene Shaffer -- Travel on the Silk Road and seas / Faxian -- Travels / Ibn Battuta -- Merchant handbook / Francesco Balducci Pegolotti -- Love, sex, and marriage : medieval Europe and Asia, 400 - 1350 -- Love in medieval Europe, India, and Japan / Kevin Reilly -- The service of ladies / Ulrich von Liechtenstein -- The art of courtly love / Andreas Capellanus -- Locales of love: tournament and temple -- The Rubáiyát / Omar Khayyám -- The tale of Genji / Murasaki Shikibu -- Sex in the city of Angkor / Zhou Daguan -- Muslim, Christian, and Jewish encounters: Afro-Eurasia, 1000-1300 -- Interfaith relations in Muslim North Africa (1000-1300) / Shelomo Dov Goitein -- Grant to the Jews / Bisho of Speyer -- The First Crusade: Pope Urban's speech at Clermont / Fulcher of Chartres -- Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson -- A Muslim history of the First Crusade / Ibn al-Athir -- The conquest of Jerusalem / Ibn al-Athir -- Letter from a Jewish pilgrim in Egypt -- Ecclesia and Synagoga -- Raiders of steppe and sea : vikings and mongols, Eurasia and the Atlantic, 900 - 1350 -- Were the barbarians a negative or positive factor in ancient and medieval history? / Gregory Guzman -- The viking Rus / Ibn Fadlan -- Eirik's Saga -- The Mongols / Yvo of Narbona -- The secret history of the Mongols -- The Mongols / Ibn al-Athir -- History of the Mongols / John of Plano Carpini -- The black death : Afro-Eurasia, 1346 - 1350 -- Biological warfare at the 1346 siege of Caffa / Mark Wheelis -- Origins of the Black Death / Gabriele de' Mussis -- The plague in Florence: from the Decameron / Giovanni Boccaccio -- Causes according to College of Physicians, Paris -- Images of the Black Death -- The plague in Cairo / Ahmad al-Maqrizi -- Students and education: the world, 800-1400 -- Islam, literacy, and education in the Sudan / J. J. Fisher -- The Chinese civil service exam / Ishisada Miyazaki -- Regulations of Buddhist monks in a Japanese mountain school -- Founding edict, Korea / King T'aejo -- The tale of Genji: Chinese literacy among Japanese women / Murasaki Shikibu -- Merton College statutes / Walter de Merton -- Codex Mendoza: Aztec discipline and education -- Environment, culture, and technology: Europe, Asia, and Oceania, 500-1500 -- The historical roots of our ecological crisis / Lynn White, Jr. -- Image from a Cistercian manuscript -- Image from a French calendar -- Image of a Chinese Feng-shui master -- Image of European surveying instruments -- Easter Island's end / Jared Diamond -- Rethinking the fall of Easter Island / Terry Hunt -- Sustainable survival / J. R. McNeill