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Reading List
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Freshman Year
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Humanities
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Aeschylus
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Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides
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Aesop
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Fables
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Aristophanes
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The Clouds and other comedies
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Aristotle
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Poetics
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Hawthorne
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A Wonder-Book
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Herodotus
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The Histories
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Homer
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Iliad; Odyssey
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Pieper
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture
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Plato
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Euthyphro; Apology; Crito; Phaedo;The Republic
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Plutarch
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Lives (Lycurgus, Aristides, Solon, Cimon, Theseus, Pericles, Alcibiades, Themistocles, Alexander, Demosthenes)
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Sophocles
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Oedipus the King; Antigone; Oedipus at Colonus
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Thucydides
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History of the Peloponnesian War
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Xenophon
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Anabasis; Memorabilia
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Various authors
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Poems for memorization
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Trivium
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Adler & van Doren
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How to Read a Book
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Corbett
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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
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Kreeft
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Socratic Logic
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Strunk & White
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The Elements of Style
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Theology
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The Holy Bible
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St. Augustine
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On Christian Doctrine
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Benedict XVI
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Regensburg Address
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St. Ignatius
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Epistles to the Ephesians, Magnesians, Trallians, Philadelphians, Smyrnaeans
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St. Irenaeus
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Against Heresies
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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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St. Pius X
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Pascendi Dominici Gregis
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Summa of Theology
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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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Latin
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Ørberg
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Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata (Pars I: Familia Romana)
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Sophomore Year
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Humanities
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St. Augustine
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Confessions
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St. Benedict
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The 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; On Old Age
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Epictetus
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Manual
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St. Gregory the Great
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Life of St. Benedict
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Horace
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Odes and Epodes
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Julius Caesar
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Conquest of Gaul
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Livy
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The 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 (Romulus, Numa, Fabius, Coriolanus,Cato the Younger, Caesar, Brutus, Marc Antony, Pompey, Cicero)
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Shakespeare
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Coriolanus; Julius Caesar; Antony and Cleopatra
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Virgil
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Aeneid
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Various authors
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Poems for memorization
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Trivium
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Corbett
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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
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Kreeft
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Socratic Logic
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Strunk & White
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The Elements of Style
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Theology
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The Holy Bible
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Councils of Antioch, Carthage, and Orange
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Ecumenical Councils of Nicaea I, Constantinople I, and Florence
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Arius
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Thalia; Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia; Letter to Alexander of Alexandria
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Alexander
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Letter to Alexander of Thessalonica
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St. Athanasius
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Orations against the Arians
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St. Augustine
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On the Grace of Christ
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St. Bonaventure
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The Journey of the Mind to God
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St. Dionysius
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The Divine Names
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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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St. Gregory of Nyssa
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To Ablabius
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Leo XIII
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Divinum Illud Munum
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Pelagius
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Letter to Demetrias
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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
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Philosophy
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Aristotle
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Categories; Posterior Analytics; Physics
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Plato
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Timaeus
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Presocratics
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Fragments
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Art History
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Boardman
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Greek Art
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Gombrich
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The Story of Art
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Rice
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Art of the Byzantine Era
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Wheeler
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Roman Art and Architecture
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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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Field Guide to Vascular Plants of Wyoming
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Fabre
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Entomological Studies
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Goethe
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Metamorphosis of Plants
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Leopold
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A Sand County Almanac
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Linnaeus
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Systema Naturae
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Murie
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A Field Guide to Animal Tracks
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Sibley
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Field Guide to Birds of Western North America
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Voshell
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Freshwater Invertebrates
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Latin
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Classical, biblical, and medieval texts
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Ørberg
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Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata (Pars II: Roma Aeterna)
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Junior Year
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Humanities
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The Little Flowers of St. Francis
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Song of Roland
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St. Augustine
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On the Teacher
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St. Bede
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Ecclesiastical History
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Belloc
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Europe and the Faith
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St. Bonaventure
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Life of St. Francis
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Chaucer
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Canterbury Tales; Troilus and Cressida
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Dante
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The Divine Comedy
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Einhard & Notker
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
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Thomas à Kempis
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The Imitation of Christ
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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On the Teacher
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Villehardouin
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Chronicles of the Crusades
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Various authors
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Poems for memorization
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Trivium
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Aristotle
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Rhetoric
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Copeland (ed.)
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The World’s Great Speeches
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Corbett
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Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student
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Kreeft
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Socratic Logic
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Strunk & White
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The Elements of Style
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Theology
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The Holy Bible
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Ecumenical Councils of Ephesus, Chalcedon, Constantinople II and III, and Nicaea II
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Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
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Dominus Iesus
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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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texts on the “whole Christ”
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St. Bernard
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Homilies in Praise of the Virgin Mother
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St. Cyprian
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The Unity of the Catholic Church
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St. Cyril of Alexandria
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Letters to Nestorius; Letter to John of Antioch; texts on the Body of Christ
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St. John of the Cross
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Romance on “In the beginning”
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St. Leo the Great
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Letter to Flavian (Tome of Leo)
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Leo XIII
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Satis Cognitum
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St. Louis de Montfort
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True Devotion to Mary
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St. Maximus
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Disputation with Pyrrhus
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Nestorius
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Second Letter to Cyril
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Newman
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Letter to Pusey
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Pius XI
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Mortalium Animos
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Ven. Pius XII
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Mystici Corporis
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Compendium of Theology; Summa of Theology
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Vatican I
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Pastor Aeternus
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Vatican II
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Lumen Gentium; Unitatis Redintegratio; Ad Gentes; Nostra Aetate
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Philosophy
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Aristotle
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On the Soul; Parts of Animals; Nicomachean Ethics
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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Commentary on Aristotle’s On the Soul
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Music
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Boethius
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Fundamentals of Music
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Evans
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Exploring Theory with Practica Musica
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Forney & Machlis
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The Enjoyment of Music; The Norton Recordings; The Norton Scores
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Harnoncourt
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Readings on music and culture
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John Paul II
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Letter to Artists
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Kalkavage
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On the Measurement of Tones
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Pieper
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“Thoughts about Music”
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Plato
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Excerpts from Republic, Timaeus, Laws
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Ratzinger
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Readings on music and the liturgy
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Webern
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Path to the New Music
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Mathematics
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Apollonius
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Conics
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Descartes
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Geometry
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Kline
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Mathematics and the Physical World
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Laplace
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A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities
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Pascal
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Generation of Conic Sections
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Polya
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
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Science
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Dalton
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Proportion of Gases in the Atmosphere
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Galileo
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Two New Sciences
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Gay-Lussac
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Combination of Gaseous Substances
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Huygens
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On the Movement of Bodies by Impact
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Kline
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Mathematics and the Physical World
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Leibniz
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Essay on Dynamics
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Lavoisier
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Elements of Chemistry
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Maxwell
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Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism
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Mendeleev
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Periodic Table of Elements
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Senior Year
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Humanities
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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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Cellini
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Autobiography
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Cervantes
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Don Quixote
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Dawson
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Religion and the Rise of Western Culture
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Descartes
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Meditations on First Philosophy; Discourse on Method
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Du Bois
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The Souls of Black Folk
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Eliot
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The Four Quartets
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Flaubert
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Madame Bovary
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Franklin
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Autobiography
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Gibbon
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Hume
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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Ibsen
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Ghosts; Emperor and Galilean
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Jefferson, et alia
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Declaration of Independence
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Johnson
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Rasselas
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Kant
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What is Enlightenment?
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Locke
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Second Treatise of Civil Government
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Luther
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Letter to German Nobility; On Galatians
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Machiavelli
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The Prince
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Madison, et alia
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U.S. Constitution; Federalist Papers
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Manzoni
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The Betrothed
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Melville
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Billy Budd
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Mill
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On Liberty
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Montaigne
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Essays
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Newman
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The Idea of a University
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Nietzsche
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The Use and Abuse of History
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O’Connor
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Short Stories
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Parkman
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The Oregon Trail
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Shakespeare
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Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth; The Tempest; Twelfth Night
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Swift
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Gulliver’s Travels
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Tocqueville
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Democracy in America
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Tolstoy
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Short Stories
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Twain
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Huckleberry Finn
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Voltaire
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Candide
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Washington
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Up from Slavery
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Wister
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The Virginian
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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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Anonymous
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Epistle to Diognetus
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St. Augustine
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The City of God; The Morals of the Catholic Church; The Spirit and the Letter
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Benedict XVI
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Deus Caritas Est; Caritas in Veritate
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St. Bernard
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On Loving God
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St. Catherine of Siena
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The Dialogue
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem
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On the Christian Sacraments
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St. Gregory of Nyssa
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On the Baptism of Christ
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St. John Chrysostom
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Baptismal Instructions
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John Paul II
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Ecclesia de Eucharistia; Veritatis Splendor
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Leo XIII
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Diuturnum Illud; Immortale Dei; Libertas Praestantissimum; Sapientiae Christianae; Rerum Novarum
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Paul VI
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Mysterium Fidei
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Pius XI
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Quadragesimo Anno
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Ven. Pius XII
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Mediator Dei; Ci Riesce
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Ratzinger
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“Theology of the Liturgy”
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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On the Perfection of the Spiritual Life; Summa against the Pagans; Office for Corpus Christi
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Trent
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On the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass; On the Holy Eucharist
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Vatican II
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Sacrosanctum Concilium; Gaudium et Spes;Dignitatis Humanae
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Philosophy
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Aristotle
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Politics; Metaphysics
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St. Thomas Aquinas
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On Kingship; On Charity; Summa of Theology; On Being and Essence
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Art History
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Benton
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Art of the Middle Ages
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Ferguson
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Signs and Symbols in Christian Art
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Gombrich
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The Story of Art
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Hartt
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Italian Renaissance Art
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Jacopo da Varazze
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The Golden Legend
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Vasari
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The Lives of the Artists
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Science
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Archimedes
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On Floating Bodies
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Bacon
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Novum Organum
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Darwin
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On the Origin of Species
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Descartes
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Principles of Philosophy
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Einstein
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Relativity: The Special and the General Theory
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Galen
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On the Natural Faculties
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Heisenberg
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Physics and Philosophy; Encounters with Einstein
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Kuhn
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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Mayr
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Toward a New Philosophy of Biology
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Mendel
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Experiments in Plant Hybridization
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Newton
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Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy
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Popper
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Conjectures and Refutations
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Toulmin
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The Fabric of the Heavens
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Wallace
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The Modeling of Nature
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