Curriculum Reading List 2011

For our studies we follow a Classical Education Plan.
We study the History of the World on a rotating basis in four year blocks.

In 2011 we are studying from The Fall of Rome to the Renaissance.
This is my personal reading list for the year's studies followed by a list of books for Young Adults and other ideas for books to read on the subject.

End of Empire: Attila the Hun and the Fall of Rome ~ Christopher Kelly
Wars of Justinian ~ Procopius
A History of the English Church and People ~ Bede
Stories from the One Thousand and One Nights ~ Lane
The Arabian Nights: ~ Burton, Richard Francis
Beowulf ~ Seamus Heaney translation, illustrated
The Song of Roland
The Tale of Genji ~ Murasaki Shikibu
Ivanhoe~ Sir Walter Scott
The Lais of Marie de France
Aquinas 101
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi ~ Bonaventure
Travels of Marco Polo ~ Marco Polo
The Divine Comedy ~ Dante
Decameron ~ Boccaccio
Sir Gawain and critical essays (The Gawain-poet)
Julian of Norwish, Revelations on Divine Lore
Morte d'Arthur ~ Malory
Margery Kempe
Erasmus, Tyndale and more
Don Quixote
The Fairie Queen
Shakespeare