Readings

 

 

C. G. Starr.  Early Man.

K. P. Oakley.  Man the Toolmaker.

 

J.A. Wilson.  The Culture of Ancient Egypt.

Donald B Redford. Akhenaten: The Heretic King.

 

S.N. Kramer.  History Begins at Sumer.

Alexander Heidel. Gilgamesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels.

 

Thomas Cahill. The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads

          Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels.

Charles Leonard Woolley. Abraham: Recent Discoveries and Hebrew

 

H. W. F. Saggs The Greatness That Was Babylon.

Robert Francis Harper. The Code of Hammurabi. King of Babylonia.

 

D. H. F. Kitto.  The Greeks.

Donald Kagan. Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy.

 

C. G. Starr.  The Emergence of Rome as Ruler of the Western World.

Christian Meier. Caesar: A Biography.

 

R. H. Bainton.  Early Christianity.

A.H.M. Jones. Constantine and the Conversion of Europe.

 

Peter Arnott. The Byzantines and Their World.

John Moorhead. Justinian.

 

B. Lewis.  The Arabs in History.

T. Andrae.  Mohammed: the Man and His Faith.

 

L. B. Moss.  The Birth of the Middle Ages.

John J Butt. Daily Life in the Age of Charlemagne.

 

F. Heer.  The Medieval World.

H. Adams.  Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.

 

Peter Burke.  The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy.

H. Butterfield.  The Statecraft of Machiavelli.

 

E.P. Cheyney.  The Dawn of a New Era.

M. M. Phillips.  Erasmus and the Northern Renaissance.

 

E. H. Harbison.  The Age of the Reformation.

R. H. Bainton.  Here I Stand.

 

B. Kidd.  The Counter Reformation

T. Maynard.  St. Ignatius and the Jesuits.

 

A. G. Dickens.  The English Reformation.

J. J. Scarisbrick.  Henry VIII.

 

B. Penrose.  Travel and Discovery in the Renaissance.

S. E. Morrison.  Christopher Columbus.

 

C.E. Nowell.  The Great Discoveries and the First Colonial Empires.

D. P. Mannix.  Black Cargoes.

 

H. Butterfield.  The Origins of Modern Science.

T. S. Kuhn.  The Copermican Revolution.