Readings in the Western Humanities, Volume 1 - Softcover

Matthews, Roy; Platt, Dewitt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072556390 ISBN 13: 9780072556391

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2003

Synopsis

Volume One of Readings in the Western Humanities includes a wide range of primary source selections from pre-history and ancient Near Eastern civilizations through the Renaissance.

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From the Publisher

Chronological arrangement correlates with The Western Humanities, Fourth Edition, by Roy T. Matthews and F. DeWitt Platt.
Extensive headnotes provide context to help students better understand the importance of each selection.
Two-volume format allows maximum flexibility; the readings can be packaged with the complete version of The Western Humanities, Fourth Edition, or with either one of the split volumes.
30 new readings (19 new readings in Volume I and 11 new readings in Volume II) have been added, including selections from the code of Hammurabi, Tertullian's The Apparel of Women, Martin Luther's The Ninety-five Theses, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Toni Morrison's The Song of Solomon'as well as poems by Marie de France, Gaspara Stampa, and William Butler Yeates.
Holy Scriptures: The selections come from a different translation, more representative of the original Judaic text; Ecclesiastes is now included.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0072556390
• ISBN 13: 9780072556391
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 336