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Recommended Primary Sources

• Tacitus: Germania
• Accounts of Meeting Between Leo I and Attila
• Procopius: On Justinian
• Yakut: Baghdad under the Abbasids, c. 1000 CE

The Making of the Western Kingdoms, ca. 376 - 750

Texts:

• Jordanes: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths
• Beowulf
• Priscus: On Attila the Hun, 448
• Ammianus Marcellinus: The Luxury of the Rich in Rome, c. 400 CE
• Gelasius: On Spiritual and Temporal Power, 494
• Leo I: The Petrine Doctrine
• Gregory I: Letter to Abbot Mellitus
• St. Patrick: Confession
• Two Accounts of the Conversion of Clovis, 496
• Jordanes: Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths
• Theodoric: Letters

Images:

• The Visigothic Code
• Manuscript Illumination of Gregory the Great
• Baptism of Clovis

The Byzantine Empire, ca. 400 - 1000

Texts:

• Procopius: Justinian Suppresses the Nika Revolt, 532
• Procopius: On Hagia Sophia
• Corpus Iuris Civilis, 6th ct.
• Procopius: The Reconquest of Africa, 534
• Procopius: The Roman Silk Industry, c. 550
• Procopius: On Racing Factions
• Liudprand of Cremona: Embassy to Constantinople, 963
• Justinian: Dialogue with Paul of Nisibis
• John of Damascus: In Defense of Icons, c. 730
• Russian Primary Chronicle: The Christianization of Russia, 988

Image:

• Theodora

Islam, 600 - 1000

Texts:

• Qu'ran: Surahs 1-47
• Qu'ran: Surah 1, Audio
• Qu'ran: Surah 47, Audio
• al-Bukhari: Hadith on Fasting
• Accounts of Arabs, Franks, and the Battle of Tours, 732
• Ibn Abd-el-Hakem: The Islamic Conquest of Spain
• An Arab Ambassador in Constantinople, late 10th ct.

Images:

• Qu'ran in Kufic Script
• Muhammad on a Camel & Jesus on a Donkey
• Muhammed's Armies in Battle
• Muhammad Appoints Ali as Successor