Humanities IIFor the 2020-21 academic year, our history and literature studies will focus on Christendom.
HistoryKing’s Meadow Humanities: Christendom A comprehensive overview of history by Dr. George Grant, from the beginnings of Christianity through the Enlightenment. 
Audio is delivered in MP3 data file format. Cottage Press: 
The Book of Centuries, Christendom Primary Source Reader, and Poetry Reader V (no current photo) will be purchased from Cottage Press in a group order.

Sketches from Church History, Houghton & Murray The Middle Ages, Dorothy Mills Renaissance and Reformation Times, Dorothy Mills World History Atlas
Literature 
Beowulf Confessions, Augustine - We are only reading Book 13 (one chapter). Parents can make a free copy from an available PDF online, or buy this edition. Ecclesiastical History of English People, Bede History of the Kings of Britain, Geoffrey of Monmouth 
Song of Roland Le Morte D’Arthur, Sir Thomas Malory Canterbury Tales, Chaucer Utopia, by Sir Thomas More Edmund Spenser's Poetry
![A Midsummer Night's Dream (Dover Thrift Editions) by [William Shakespeare]](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61z0DWe5I7L.jpg)
“Everyman” and “Second Shepherd’s Play” The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream, William Shakespeare (order from Kathy Whitmore)
Supplementary BooksThese are excellent, optional books to enhance your study of Christendom. A Distant Mirror, Barbara Tuchman A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Mark Twain The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis The Discarded Image, C. S. Lewis The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco The Travels of Marco Polo The Travels of Sir John Mandeville The Golden Legend The City of God, Augustine Two Lives of Charlemagne, Einhard & Notker Basic Writings, Anselm Shorter Summa, Aquinas Alfred the Great, Asser The Labyrinth of the World, Jan Comenius Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes Biographies & Non-Fiction
A Place to Stand: Martin Luther (Leaders in Action), David Vaughan, Diane Vaughan and Gene Edward Veith A Heart Promptly Offered: The Revolutionary Leadership of John Calvin (Leaders in Action) by David W Hall For Kirk and Covenant: The Stalwart Courage of John Knox (Leaders in Action), Douglas Wilson and George Grant Medieval Architecture in Western Europe, Robert G. Calkins
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