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Humanities
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Aeschylus
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Agamemnon; Libation Bearers; Eumenides
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Aristophanes
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Clouds
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Euripides
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Bacchae
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Herodotus
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Histories
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Hesiod
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Theogony
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Homer
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Iliad; Odyssey
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Plato
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Republic; Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo; Symposium; Phaedrus
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Plutarch
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Lives (Pericles, Alcibiades)
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Sophocles
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Oedipus the King; Antigone
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Thucydides
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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Various authors
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Poems for memorization
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Theology
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The Holy Bible
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Genesis, Exodus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, 1 & 2 Samuel, 1 & 2 Kings, Ezra, Nehemiah, selections from prophetic writings (Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel), 1 Maccabees, Gospel of Luke, Acts of the Apostles, Romans, 1 & 2 Timothy, Titus, Hebrews, Revelation
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St. Augustine
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On Christian Doctrine
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St. Ignatius of Antioch
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Epistles to the Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Philadelphians, Smyrnaeans |
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Leo XIII
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Providentissimus Deus
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Newman
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“The Theory of Developments in Religious Doctrine”
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Sheed
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Theology for Beginners
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Summa of Theology I.1
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Vatican I
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Dei Filius
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Vatican II
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Dei Verbum
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St. Vincent of Lerins
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Commonitory for the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith
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Mathematics
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Euclid
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Elements
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Trivium
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Aristotle
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Categories; On Interpretation; Prior Analytics; Posterior Analytics; Topics; Sophistical Refutations
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Porphyry
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Isagoge
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Proemium to Commentary on the Posterior Analytics
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Latin
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Neumann
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Lingua Latina: A College Companion
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Ørberg
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Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana; Colloquia Personarum
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Humanities
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Anglo-Saxons
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The Wanderer; Dream of the Rood; Beowulf
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Anonymous
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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St. Augustine
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Confessions
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St. Bede
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Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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St. Benedict
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Rule
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Boethius
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Consolation of Philosophy
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Cicero
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On Duties; On Friendship
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Einhard
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Life of Charlemagne
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St. Gregory the Great
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Life of St. Benedict
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Livy
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History of Rome
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Lucretius
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On the Nature of Things
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Marcus Aurelius
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Meditations
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Ovid
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Metamorphoses
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Plutarch
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Lives (Theseus, Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon, Numa, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Demosthenes, Cicero, Dion, Brutus, Demetrius, Marc Antony)
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Virgil
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Aeneid
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Various authors
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Excerpts on Roman history from Suetonius, Dio Cassius, Horace, Lucan, Tacitus, Lactantius; primary sources on the Crusades (e.g., Villehardouin); poems for memorization
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Theology
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The Holy Bible
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Genesis 1–3; Psalms 8, 33, 104; Wisdom; Ecclesiastes; Job; Gospel of John; 1 John
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Church Councils
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Council of Antioch; Ecumenical Councils of Nicaea I, Constantinople I, and Florence
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Anonymous
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Athanasian Creed
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Alexander
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Letter to Alexander of Thessalonica
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Arius
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Thalia; Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia; Letter to Alexander of Alexandria
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St. Bonaventure
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The Mind’s Journey to God
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St. Francis of Assisi
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Canticle of Brother Sun
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St. Gregory Nazianzen
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Theological Orations
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Leo XIII
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Divinum Illud Munum
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Ven. Pius XII
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Divino Afflante Spiritu; Humani Generis
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Compendium of Theology; Summa of Theology I.43
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Philosophy
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Aristotle
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Physics I–IV; On the Soul; Parts of Animals
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Plato
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Timaeus; Phaedo
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Presocratics
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Fragments
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul
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Science
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Chartrand
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Field Guide to the Night Sky
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Dorn
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Vascular Plants of Wyoming
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Leopold
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A Sand County Almanac
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Murie
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Field Guide to Animal Tracks
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Sibley
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Field Guide to the Birds of Western North America
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Voshell
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Freshwater Invertebrates
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Trivium
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Aristotle
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Poetics
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Crider
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The Office of Assertion
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Corbett
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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
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Latin
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Lhomond
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Epitome Historiae Sacrae
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Miraglia
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Fabulae Syrae
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Neumann
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Lingua Latina: A College Companion
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Ørberg
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Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, Pars I: Familia Romana
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Classical, biblical, medieval, and liturgical texts
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Humanities
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Anonymous
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Everyman
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Chaucer
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Canterbury Tales
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Cervantes
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Don Quixote
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Dante
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Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
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Dawson
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“Church and State in the Middle Ages”
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Henry IV & Gregory VII
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Letters
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Erasmus
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In Praise of Folly
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Luther
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On the Freedom of the Christian
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Machiavelli
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Prince
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Marlowe
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Dr. Faustus
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Milton
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Paradise Lost
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Panofsky
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Gothic Art and Scholasticism
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Shakespeare
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Hamlet; Twelfth Night; Henry V; The Merchant of Venice; King Lear; The Tempest
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Various authors
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Selections from the Metaphysical Poets; poems for memorization
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Theology
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The Holy Bible
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Leviticus; Gospel of Matthew; Gospel of Mark; Colossians; Philippians; Hebrews
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Church Councils
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Council of Carthage; Synod of Orange; Ecumenical Councils of Ephesus, Chalcedon, and Nicaea II
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St. Anselm
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Why God Became Man
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St. Athanasius
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On the Incarnation
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St. Augustine
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On the Grace of Christ
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St. Cyril of Alexandria
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Letters to Nestorius; Letter to John of Antioch
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St. John of the Cross
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Romances on “In the beginning”
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St. John Damascene
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In Defense of the Holy Images, Treatise I
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St. Leo the Great
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Letter to Flavian (Tome of Leo)
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Nestorius
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Second Letter to Cyril
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Compendium of Theology
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Philosophy
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Aristotle
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Nicomachean Ethics; Politics
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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On Kingship; Summa of Theology I-II on law
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Music
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Aristotle
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Politics, Book VIII
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Bach
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St. Matthew Passion
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Benedict XVI
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Address to Artists
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Berquist
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“Good Music and Bad”
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Bloom
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Closing of the American Mind, “Music”
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Boethius
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Fundamentals of Music, Book I
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Bd. John Paul II
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Letter to Artists
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Kalkavage
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Elements of Music; writings on Pythagorean theory
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Lewis
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The Magician’s Nephew, “The Founding of Narnia”
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Pelikan
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“The Beauty of Holiness”
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Pieper
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“Thoughts about Music”; “Music and Silence”
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St. Pius X
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Motu proprio Tra le Sollecitudini
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Platt
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“A Different Drummer”
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Plato
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Excerpts from Republic, Timaeus, Laws
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Ratzinger
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“Music and Liturgy”; “The Image of the World and of Human Beings in the Liturgy and Its Expression in Church Music”
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Storck
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“Mass Culture or Popular Culture?”
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Tindal-Atkinson
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“The Music of a Dead Culture”
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Tolkien
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The Silmarillion, “Ainulindalë”
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Zuckerkandl
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Man the Musician, “The Two Concepts of Musicality”
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Mathematics
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Apollonius
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Conics
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Archimedes
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The Quadrature of the Parabola; On Floating Bodies
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Descartes
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Geometry
|
|
St. Thomas Aquinas
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Commentary on Boethius’ De Trinitate, Question 5
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Wigner
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“The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences”
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Science
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Galileo
|
Two New Sciences
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|
Laplace
|
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
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Hume
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On Miracles
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Pascal
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The Wager
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Trivium
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|
Aristotle
|
Rhetoric
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Copeland (ed.)
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The World’s Great Speeches
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Corbett
|
Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
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Humanities
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|
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Declaration of Independence
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Constitution of the United States of America
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Arnold
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“Dover Beach”
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Camus
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The Stranger
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Cather
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
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Coleridge
|
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; “The Eolian Harp”; Biographia Literaria
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Congreve
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The Way of the World
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Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
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Derrida
|
“Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences”
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Descartes
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Meditations on First Philosophy
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Dickens
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Hard Times
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Dostoevsky
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Crime and Punishment
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Eliot
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The Waste Land; Four Quartets
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Foucault
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Madness and Civilization
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Gray
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“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
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Hobbes
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Leviathan
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Hume
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Ibsen
|
A Doll’s House
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Johnson
|
“The Vanity of Human Wishes”
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Joyce
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“Three Sisters”; “Araby”; “The Dead”
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Kant
|
“What is Enlightenment?”
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Keats
|
“Ode to a Nightingale”
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Lincoln
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Speeches
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Locke
|
Second Treatise of Civil Government
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Madison
|
Federalist 10 and 51
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Marx
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Communist Manifesto; Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
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Melville
|
Billy Budd
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Newman
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Dream of Gerontius
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Nietzsche
|
On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life; “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense”
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|
O’Connor
|
“Good Country People”; “Revelation”
|
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Pascal
|
Pensées
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Pope
|
Essay on Man
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|
Ratzinger
|
“Truth and Freedom”
|
|
Rousseau
|
Discourse on Inequality
|
|
Shelley
|
“Mont Blanc”; “Ode to the West Wind”; Defense of Poetry
|
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Tennyson
|
“Ulysses”
|
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Tocqueville
|
Democracy in America
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Tolstoy
|
The Death of Ivan Ilyich
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|
Twain
|
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
|
|
Wister
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The Virginian
|
|
Wordsworth
|
“Ode: Intimations on Immortality”; “Tintern Abbey”
|
|
Various authors
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Excerpts from French, German, and English Enlightenment thinkers; excerpts from American founding period authors; selections from the War Poets; poems for memorization
|
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Theology
|
|
The Holy Bible
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Genesis 2; Hosea 1–3; Ephesians; 1 Corinthians; 1 & 2 Peter
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|
Anonymous
|
The Didache; Epistle to Diognetus
|
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St. Augustine
|
The City of God, Book 10; The Spirit and the Letter
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|
Benedict XVI
|
Deus Caritas Est
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St. Cyril of Alexandria
|
Texts on the Body of Christ
|
|
Bd. John Paul II
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Ecclesia de Eucharistia; Veritatis Splendor; Evangelium Vitae
|
|
Leo XIII
|
Satis Cognitum; Diuturnum Illud; Immortale Dei; Libertas Praestantissimum; Sapientiae Christianae; Au Milieu des Sollicitudes; Longinqua Oceani; Testem Benevolentiae; Rerum Novarum
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Paul VI
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Humanae Vitae
|
|
Bd. Pius IX
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Quanta Cura; Syllabus of Errors
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St. Pius X
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Pascendi Dominici Gregis; Vehementer Nos
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Pius XI
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Quadragesimo Anno; Casti Connubii; Quas Primas
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Ven. Pius XII
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Mystici Corporis; Mediator Dei; Ci Riesce
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St. Thomas Aquinas
|
Summa of Theology III.8; Summa against the Pagans III.19, IV.56–78; Eucharistic Hymns; On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life
|
|
Vatican II
|
Lumen Gentium; Dignitatis Humanae
|
|
Philosophy
|
|
Aristotle
|
Metaphysics I, II, and IV
|
|
Benedict XVI
|
Regensburg Address
|
|
Dewan
|
Lectures on Metaphysics
|
|
Plato
|
Phaedo; Parmenides
|
|
St. Thomas Aquinas
|
On Being and Essence; Prologue to Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics; Summa of Theology I.2, 5, 16, and 44
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Art History
|
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Bonaventure
|
Life of St. Francis
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|
Carl and Charles
|
Baroque Art
|
|
Leclercq
|
The Love of Learning and the Desire for God
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|
Lowden
|
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
|
|
Panofsky
|
Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism
|
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Plato
|
Timaeus
|
|
Schneider Adams
|
Renaissance Art
|
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Stokstad
|
Medieval Art
|
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Vitruvius
|
On Architecture
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Wheeler
|
Roman Art and Architecture
|
|
Woodford
|
An Introduction to Greek Art
|
|
Science
|
|
Augros
|
“Reconciling Science with Natural Philosophy”
|
|
Bacon
|
Novum Organum
|
|
J. Bolin
|
Darwin and Evolution
|
|
Darwin
|
The Origin of Species
|
|
De Koninck
|
“The Lifeless World of Biology”
|
|
Descartes
|
Discourse on Method
|
|
Einstein
|
Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
|
|
Galileo
|
Two New Sciences
|
|
Huygens
|
On the Motion of Bodies Resulting by Impact
|
|
International Theological Comission
|
Communion and Stewardship
|
|
Bd. John Paul II
|
Address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
|
|
Mayr
|
Toward a New Philosophy of Biology
|
|
Mendel
|
Experiments in Plant Hybridization
|
|
Miller
|
Finding Darwin’s God
|
|
Newton
|
Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
|
|
Ven. Pius XII
|
Humani Generis
|