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Teaching: European Civilization

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Teaching at the Center
European Civilization

Noted for its strength in European history, it is no surprise that Special Collections can be used to teach a wide variety of topics crucial to the European Civilization course sequence. Below are a selection of texts that can be used to teach six key concepts.

Manuscript Tradition

  • Book of Hours, Netherlands, 1480. MS347
  • Magna Carta, France, 14th century. MS 427
  • Boccaccio. Genealogia Deorum Gentilium. Italy, 1385-1387. MS100
  • Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. England, 1440-1460. MS564

Reformation

  • Erasmus. In Novum Testamentum Annotationes. Basileai, 1542. fBS3540.E6
  • Luther, Martin. Biblia. Das Ist: Die Gantze Heilige Schrifft. Wittenberg, 1545. fBS239.A2 1545
  • Luther, Martin. De Servo Arbitrio. Wittenberg, 1526. BX8069.A2 1531
  • Leo X. Bulla Leonis X. Italy, 1519. MS 167

British Empire

  • Moll, Herman. Twenty Four New and Accurate Maps of the Several Parts of Europe. London, 17?? G1317 17--
  • Smith, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Courses of the Wealth of Nations. London, 1776. HB161.S6
  • Terry, Edward. A Voyage to East-India. London, 1655. DS407.T33
  • Selden, John. Of the Dominion, or, Ownership of the Sea. London, 1652. JX4423.S37
  • Scrinia Sacre: Secrets of Empire. London, 1654. DA370.C13

Perceptions of the New World

  • de Fer, Nicolas. Carte de la Mer… Paris, 1712. ffG3200 svar. E37 (Burke Map 2.144)

Encyclopédie

  • Diderot. Encyclopédie. Paris, 1751-65. fAE25.E53 v.1
  • Diderot. Encyclopédie/Planches. Paris, 1762-72. fAE25.E55 v.2-3
  • Furetiere, Antoine. Dictionaire Universel. La Haye, 1690. PC2620.F94 v.1

20th Century Totalitarianism and the Arts

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