Preface
Chapter 11 The Early Renaissance: Return To Classical Roots, 1400-1494 Giovanni Pico and Della Mirandola
Selections from On the Dignity of Man Leon Battista Alberti
Selection from On Painting Book II
Chapter 12 The High Renaissance And Early Mannerism, 1494-1564 Gaspara Stampa
Poems '3' '43' '98' '104' '151' Baldassare Castiglione
Selections from The Book of the Courtier Book I Book III Niccol脪Machiavelli
Selections from The Prince Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII
Chapter 13 Northern Humanism, Northern Renaissance, Religious Reformations, And Late Mannerism: 1500-1603 Fran脟Ois Rabelais
Selection from The Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel Book I Desiderius Erasmus
Selection from The Praise of Folly Sir Thomas More
Selection from Utopia Book II Michel De Montaigne
Selection from Essays Book I William Shakespeare
Hamlet Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V Martin Luther
Selections from the Ninety-Five Theses Miguel De Cervantes
Selection from Don Quixote Part I
Chapter 14 The Baroque Age: Glamour And Grandiosity: 1600-1715 Sister Juana In脡S De La Cruz
Poem and Essay 'In which she condemns the inconsistency of men, who blame women for what they themselves have caused'
Repuesta a Sor Filotea (The Reply to Sister Filotea) Moli脠Re
Selection from The Misanthrope Act I John Milton
Selection from Paradise Lost Book I Apra Behn
Selection from Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave: A True History
Chapter 15 The Baroque Age II: Revolutions In Scientific And Political Thought: 1600-1715 Galileo Galilei
Selections from the Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems-Ptolemaic and Copernican To the Discerning Reader The First Day Francis Bacon
Selection from Essays Of Studies Ren脡Descartes
Selections from Discourse on Method Part II Part IV Thomas Hobbes
Selection from Leviathan Part I John Locke
Selections from the Second Treatise of Civil Government Chapter IX Chapter XIX
Chapter 16 The Age Of Reason: 1700-1789 Immanuel Kant
Selection from 'Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?' Denis Diderot
Selections from Encyclop茅die Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Selection from Confessions Book I Voltaire
Selections from Candide Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter XXX Alexander Pope
Selections from An Essay on Man
Chapter 17 Revolution, Reaction, and Cultural Response: 1760-1830 Thomas Jefferson
Selection from The Declaration of Independence Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen Jane Austen
Selections from Pride and Prejudice Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III William Wordsworth
'Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey' Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Selection from Faust, Part I Night George Gordon and Lord Byron
Selection from Don Juan Canto I Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poems 'Ozymandias' 'England in 1819' 'Ode to the West Wind' John Keats
Poems 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' 'To Autumn' Mary Shelley
Selections from Frankenstein Chapter IV Chapter V Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Selection from Reason in History III. The Idea of History and Its Realization
Chapter 18 The Triumph of the Bourgeoisie: 1830-1871 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Selection from The Communist Manifesto Charles Darwin
Selection from The Descent of Man Charlotte BrontË
Selection from Jan