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Western Legal Tradition

Web Links

Professor Golash
Fall 1998

Historical Links

General Sites

  • Legal History Connections (Prof. B. Hibbitts)
  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures
  • World Cultures: Ancient and Modern (U. of Penn. Museum)
  • Perseus Project (ancient world)
  • Internet Medieval Sourcebook
  • British Monarchs
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    Egypt

  • See your name in hieroglyphs
  • Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Egypt
  • Palette of King Narmer - Diagram (both sides)
  • Step Pyramid of Djoser
  • Color Tour of Egypt
  • Detroit Institute of Art: Galleries: Ancient Art - Egypt
  • Egyptian Artifacts Exhibit
  • Ancient Egyptian Pictures Hall
  • Anubis
  • Khnum and Sakhmet, gods mentioned in the Loyalist Instruction
  • Legend of Osiris and Isis - this is a slightly different version from that presented in class
  • Egyptian Mythology FAQ
  • Temple of Amun at Karnak
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    Mesopotamia

    Ancient Hebrews

    Greeks

  • Iliad-Illustration 
  • Athena 
  • Orestes purified by Apollo 
  • Ancient City of Athens
  • Greek and Byzantine Architecture 
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     Roman aqueduct 

    Romans

  • Roman Law Resources
  • Roman Emperors
  • Hadrian's Wall marks the furthest extent of the Roman domination of Britain 
  • The Colossseum
  • Diocletian's edicts against the Christians
  • Constantine's edict of toleration
  • Map of the Roman Empire 
  • History of Byzantium 
  • Forum Romanum
  • Saxons

    Feudalism

  • Canterbury Cathedral 
  • Magna Carta
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    Reformation

  • Thomas More - biography from the Catholic Encyclopedia
  • Trial of Thomas More
  • Defense of the Seven Sacraments 
  • Letter to Anne Boleyn 
  • Philosophers

    Plato

  • Hypertext version of Crito 
  • Cicero

  • The Cicero homepage
  • Augustine

  • Portrait of St. Augustine 
  • Detailed biography of Augustine 

  • Medieval illuminated manuscript of Augustine's City of God 

    Aquinas

  • Biography 
  • Philosophy
  • Picture
  • Hobbes

  • Thomas Hobbes 
  •  Locke

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