Great Books: Index by Period and Culture:
Western Literature, Medieval,
Renaissance, Baroque (7th-17th C)
Periods and Nationalities
8th C
English (British Isles)
Greek
Celtic
9th C
11th C
Eastern Christian
Latin
French
12th C
Greek
Latin
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
Germanic
13th C
Eastern Christian
Latin
Italian
French
Germanic
14th C
English (British Isles)
Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
Celtic
Germanic
15th C
English (British Isles)
Latin
Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
16th C
English (British Isles)
Latin
Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
Germanic
17th C
English (British Isles)
- Greville,
Fulke, Lord Brooke
- Kyd, Thomas
- Chapman,
George
- Bacon,
Francis
- Daniel,
Samuel
- Drayton,
Michael
- Shakespeare,
William
- Campion,
Thomas
- Donne, John
- Jonson,
Ben
- Tourneur,
Cyril
- Marston,
John
- Burton,
Robert
- Webster,
John
- Beaumont,
Francis, and John Fletcher
- Middleton,
Thomas and William Rowley
- Massinger,
Philip
- Ford, John
- Hobbes,
Thomas
- Herrick,
Robert
- Herbert,
George
- Walton,
Izaak
- Carew,
Thomas
- Browne, Sir
Thomas
- Milton,
John
- Crashaw,
Richard
- Taylor,
Jeremy
- Butler,
Samuel
- Taylor,
Jeremy
- Lovelace,
Richard
- Marvell,
Andrew
- Vaughan,
Henry
- Aubrey,
John
- Bunyan,
John
- Dryden,
John
- Locke, John
- Pepys,
Samuel
- Etherege,
Sir George
- Traherne,
Thomas
- Behn, Aphra
- Wycherley,
William
- Rochester,
John Wilmot, Earl of
- Otway,
Thomas
Latin
Italian
Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan
French
- Descartes,
René
- Corneille,
Pierre
- La
Rochefoucauld, François, duc de
- La
Fontaine, Jean de
- Molière
- Pascal,
Blaise
- Bossuet,
Jacques-Bénigne
- Huygens,
Christiaan
- La Fayette,
Madame de
- Boileau-Despréaux,
Nicolas
- Racine
Germanic
Anthologies and Auxiliary Reading
Anthologies, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque
Latin
Celtic
Various, Western
Auxiliary Reading, Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque
- Adams, Henry.
Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres
- Bloch, Marc.
Feudal Society
- Braudel,
Fernand. Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th Century
- Braudel,
Fernand. The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of
Philip II
- Curtius, Ernst
Robert. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages
- Gibbon, Edward.
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- Gowing,
Lawrence. Vermeer
- Hill,
Christopher. The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the
English Revolution
- Huizinga,
Johan. The Waning of the Middle Ages
- Kott, Jan.
Shakespeare Our Contemporary
- Le Roy Ladurie,
Emmanuel. Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error
- Le Roy Ladurie,
Emmanuel. The Peasants of Languedoc
- Panofsky,
Erwin. Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the
Renaissance
- Rosenberg,
Jakob. Rembrandt: Life and Work
- Scholem,
Gershom. Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah
- Tawney, R. H..
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
- Thomas, Keith.
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth
and Seventeenth Century England
- Yates, Frances.
The Art of Memory