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Key excerpts and quotations from the Classics  of the East and West.
 

 
Christian mystics and thinkers:
Juliana of Norwich: "Showings"
Pierre Abelard:"Calamities"
Anonymous mystic, The Cloud of Unknowing
St. Augustine's Confessions
Soren Kierkegaard's existentialist meditation, "That Individual"
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
Gerard Winstanley excerpt
Milton's Areopagitca excerpts

Autobiographies and personal narratives:
Charles Darwin's Boyhood Narrative

Classical and Modern European Poets:
Caedmon's Hymn translations by our students
William Dunbar's "Timor Mortis Conturbat me"
Elizabeth Barret Browing sonnets
Geoffrey Chaucer's The Wife of Bath's Prologue: students pick great moments
Renaissance Sonnet samples from Spenser, Sydney, Mary Wroth

Slavery narratives, fiction and non-fiction
Aphra Behn's Oroonoko excerpts
Dr.Samuel Johnson excerpts

Epiphanies and Mystical Moments
Thoreau on walking

Recent Books:
Abbot Suger of St-Denis : Church and State in Early Twelfth-Century France (Medieval World)
                     by Lindy Grant
The Book of the City of Ladies
                          by Christine De Pizan
The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself (Penguin Classics)
                     by J.M. Cohen
Dark Night of the Soul
                     by St. John of the Cross
 

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