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