GBK 371--Our Judaeo-Christian Heritage: From Scholasticism to Skepticism

eadings in Aquinas, Dante, Chaucer, Milton and Montaigne.

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

Divine Comedy (c. 1307-1321)

Alighieri Dante. The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine : Hell (L'Inferno). Vol. 1. Translated by Dorothy L. Sayers. Penguin USA, 1988.
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Alighieri Dante. Divine Comedy. Random House, 1986.
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Alighieri Dante. The Divine Comedy : Inferno. Vol. 1. Translated by Mark Musa. Penguin USA, 1994.
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Alighieri Dante. The Divine Comedy : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Translated by Allen Mandelbaum. Everyman's Library. Knopf, 1995.
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Alighieri Dante. Divine Comedy : Paradise. Vol. 3. Translated by Mark Musa. Viking Press, 1986.
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Alighieri Dante. Divine Comedy : Purgatory. Vol. 2. Viking Press, 1985.
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St. Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274)

Summa Theologica (1267-1273)

Kreeft, Peter J., ed. A Shorter Summa : The Essential Philosophical Passages of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica. Ignatius Press, 1994.
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Kreeft, Peter J., ed. Summa of the Summa : The Essential Philosophical Passages of St. Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica Edited and Explained for Beginners. Ignatius Press, 1990.
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Geoffry Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)

The Canterbury Tales (1386-1400)

Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. New American Library, 1969.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. Pocket Books, 1990.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. Canterbury Tales. Steck-Vaughn Company, 1991.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Bantam Books, 1990.
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Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Translated by Nevill Coghill. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1989.
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John Milton (1608-1674)

Paradise Lost (1607)

Milton, John. Paradise Lost : An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism . 2d ed. Edited by Scott Elledge. Norton Critical Edition. W W Norton & Company, 1993.
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Milton, John. Paradise Lost and Other Poems. New American Library, 1996.
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Milton, John. Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. New American Library, 1989.
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Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Essays (1580-1588)

Michel de Montaigne. The Complete Essays. Translated by M.A. Screech. Penguin Classics. Penguin USA, 1993.
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Michel de Montaigne. Essays. Viking Press, 1993.
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Michel de Montaigne. Selected Essays. Dover Thrift Editions. Dover Publications, 1996.
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