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Medieval Europe

Classic Medieval & Renaissance texts

History of England

History of Science

Mediterranean Civilization

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In the field of History, Scheherazade advocates the reading of ancient primary sources. This stance has not earned her much regard in the halls of academe, wherein secondary commentaries are considered to be essential to understanding the context of any event or writer.

While Scheherazade does not disagree, she believes very strongly that there is no finite well of original thought. As such, she believes that fresh eyes with fresh vision uncolored by the later opinions of others may perceive things which no one has ever noticed before.

Scheherazade says:
DARE TO DISCOVER THE UNDISCOVERED!

Read the primaries, then read the secondaries and compare.


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THE MEDIEVALS .
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Bede: The Ecclesiatical History, et al. . Geoffrey Ashe: The Discovery of King Arthur . Jessie Weston: From Ritual to Romance . Geoffrey of Monmouth: History of the Kings of Britain . The Mabinogion
Gildas: De Excidio Britanniae
Nennius: History of the Britons
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THE ANCIENTS .
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Herodotus: The Histories . Thucydides: History of the Peloponnesian War . Josephus: The Jewish War . Tacitus: The Annals of Imperial Rome . Livy: War With Hannibal
Josephus: The Complete Works
Polybius: The Rise of the Roman Empire
Tacitus: The Agricola and the Germania, The Histories
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JUDEO-CHRISTIAN INQUIRIES .
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Elaine Pagels: The Gnostic Gospels . The Dead Sea Scrolls in English . Harold Bloom: The Book of J . Morton Smith: Jesus the Magician . Funk, Hoover & The Jesus Seminar: The Five Gospels
Augustine: City of God, Confessions
Eusebius: The History of the Church from Christ to Constantine
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POETRY
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PERSONAL FAVORITES .
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T.S. Eliot: Collected Poems . Sappho . Charles Bukowski: Love is a Dog From Hell . Edna St. Vincent Millay: Collected Poems . Richard Brautigan: Trout Fishing in America, et al.
ESCAPES
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MISCELLANEOUS FUN STUFF .
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J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again . J.R.R. Tolkien: The Two Towers . P.G. Wodehouse: Carry on, Jeeves . David MacAuley: Cathedral . Richard Bach: Illusions
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