Primary Sources

Assigned readings, in order in which they were assigned:

Martin Luther, “How Far Secular Authority Extends”

King James I, “1610 Speech to Parliament” (on the divine right of kings)

Ulysses's speech from Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida with annotations*

Sir Walter Raleigh's Preface to the History of the World, ¶43*

Sir Thomas Elyot's The Governor *

Church Homily on Obedience*

Edmund Spenser's Hymn of Love*

Book One of Richard Hooker's Laws of the Ecclesiastical Polity*

Marsilio Ficino, excerpt from De Sole

Pico della Mirandola, excerpts from “On the Dignity of Man” and “Conclusions”

William Shakespeare, The Tempest

John Milton, excerpt from Paradise Lost, Book VIII

Secondary Historical Materials

Readings in the order in which they were assigned:

Philip Bobbitt, excerpt from Shield of Achilles on the development of the kingly state

R.R. Palmer, excerpts from A History of the Modern World, “The New Monarchies”

R.R.Palmer, excerpt from A History of the Modern World, "The Road to Newton: The Law of Universal Gravitation,"

Material on developments in astronomy from Ptolemy to Newton on the Iowa State website

E.M.W. Tillyard, excerpt from The Elizabethan World Picture, which includes literary excerpts marked above

Frances Yates, excerpt from The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age