history.
List of Primary Sources:
1. Bernard of Clairvaux on the New Knighthood
2. ‘Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami, The Book of Holy War
3. “The Tale of Shaykh San’an” from Attar’s Conference of the Birds
4. Shao Yung, The Principles Governing the World
5. Songs of the Shiva Bhakti
6. Peter Abelard, Historia Calamitatum
7. ‘Usama ibn Munqidh, An Arab-Syrian Gentleman and Warrior in the Period of the Crusades
8. Sei Shonagon, Pillow Book
9. from The Secret History of the Mongols
10. Pei Shi Ki, “Notes on an Embassy to the North”
11. Li Chi Ch’ang, “The Travels of Ch’ang Ch’un to the West”
12. “The Battle on the River Kalka,” from the Primary Chronicle
13. “Life in the Mongol Court” from Juvaini’s The History of the World Conqueror
14. Rashid al-Din’s Compendium of Chronicles
15. Fracesco Balducci Pegolotti, “Cathay and the Way Thither”
16. ibn Batuta, from the Rihla
17. The Monks of Kublai Khan
18. Asan Qaighy, “Oh Khan, if I Did Not Tell You, You Would Not Know”
19. Ordinance on Laborers, 1394
20. The Book of the Knight of the Tower
21. Hans Holbein’s Dance of Death
22. ‘Ali as-Sarai, The Paths of Paradise
23. Martin Luther’s “95 Theses”
24. The Book of Margery Kempe
25. The Water Margin
26. Vasco da Gama, Around the Horn of Africa to India
27. Baburnama