Possible Topics for Book Club

Law and Government / Strange but True / Gods / Clothing and Fashion / Games / Careers / Women’s Roles / Music / Sports / Literature
Food / Geography / Important Leaders / Architecture / Army / Slaves / Theater / Art / Medicine and Health / Weapons and Battle

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Rome

Julius Caesar
Augustus
Mark Antony
Brutus Gaius Marius
Crassus
Marcus Antonius
Cicero Augustus
Romulus
Scipio

Ovid

Livy

Spartacus

Horace

Marius
Pompey
Sulla
Brutus
Marcus Aurelius
Cincinnatus

Scipio Aemilianus
Cato the Elder
Constantine I
Theodosius I
Diocletian
Tacitus
Appian of Alexandria
Pax Romana

Cato the Younger
Pompey
Caligula
Nero

Gracchus Brothers

Fall of the Empire

Romulus
Virgil
Roman Colosseum

Gladiatorial Styles

Birth of Christianity

Constantine

Commodus

Middle Ages

Black Death
Giovanni Boccaccio
100 Years' War [1328-1453]
Flanders
Joan of Arc
War of the Roses [1377-1485]
Papal States
Pope Boniface VIII
Crusades
Clovis
Charlemagne
William of Normandy
Magna Carta
Monks
Medieval Monasteries / Feudalism/Manorial System
Vikings
Knights and Chivalry
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Popes of the Middle Ages (ex. Pope Gregory VII Lay Investiture)
Concordat of Worms
Inquisition
Universities in the High Middle Ages
Roger Bacon
William of Ockham
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Giovanni Boccaccio

Renaissance

Renaissance
Jacob Burckhardt
humanism
Pico della Mirandola
Oration on theignity of Man
Lorenzo de Medici
Petrarch
Leonardo Bruni
Lorenzo Valla
Giotto
Masaccio
Botticelli
Quattrocento
Verrocchio
Donatello
Brunelleschi
High Renaissance
Leonardo da Vinci / Isabella d'Este
The Book of the City of Ladies
Jan van Eyck
Albrecht Dürer
François Rabelais
Desiderius Erasmus
Handbook of the Christian Knight
Sir Thomas More
Utopia
Christian Humanism
Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quixote
William Shakespeare
Michel de Montaigne
Johannes Gutenberg
Guillaume Dufay
Raphael
Michelangelo

Reformation

William of Ockham
Defensor Pacis
Avignon Papacy
indulgence
Great Schism
Catherine of Siena
Meister Eckhart
John Wycliffe
Jan Hus
Martin Luther
95 Theses
Johann Tetzel
Edict of Worms
Charles V
Peace of Augsburg
Ulrich Zwingli
Anabaptists
Mennonites / Amish
John Calvin
predestination
Henry VIII
Catherine of Aragon
Anne Boleyn
Act of Supremacy 1534
Mary I
Edward VI
Sir Thomas More
Thomas Cranmer
Mary Stuart of Scotland
John Knox
Catholic [Counter] Reformation
Pope Paul III
Council of Trent
St. Ignatius Loyola
Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
St. Francis Xavier

Exploration

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Prince Henry the Navigator
Vasco da Gama
Reconquista
"Columbian Exchange"
Cristoforo Colombo
Ferdinand Magellan
Treaty of Tordesillas
Hernan Cortés
Columbian Exchange / conquistadores
Francisco Pizarro
encomiendasystem
Bartolomé de Las Casas
joint stock company
Lloyd's of London
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Amerigo Vespucci
Atlantic Slave Trade

Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

Aristotle
Ptolemy
Galen
Pythagoras
Andreas Vesalius
Archimedes
Nicholaus Copernicus
Gregorian Calendar
Tycho Brahe
Johannes Kepler
Galileo Galilei
John Locke
Denis Diderot
Adam Smith
Salons
Catherine the Great / William Harvey
Isaac Newton
Principia Mathematica
Francis Bacon
René Descartes
Blaise Pascal
Marin Mersenne
Robert Boyle
Margaret Cavendish
Maria Sibylla Merian
Maria Winkelmann
Benedict de Spinoza
Montesquieu
Voltiare
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Mary Wollstonecraft
Seven Years War

Age of Absolutism

Henry IV
Louis XIII
Cardinal Richelieu
intendants
Louis XIV
Cardinal Mazarin
Bishop Jacques Bossuet
Versailles
Molière
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Marquis of Louvois
Louis XV
Hohenzollerns
Frederick William, the Great Elector
Frederick III [King Frederick I] / War of the Austrian Succession [1740-1748]
Amsterdam Bourse
Rembrandt van Rijn
Jan Vermeer
Gustavus Adolphus
Ivan I
Ivan III
Ivan IV ["The Terrible"]
boyars
Romanovs
Peter the Great
Puritans
James I
Charles I
William Laud / Roundheads
Cavaliers
New Model Army
Charles II
James II
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Toleration Act
Mary II of England
Anne I of England
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan
John Locke
Maria Theresa
Oliver Cromwell

French Revolution

Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Flour War
bourgeoisie
Estates General
Abbé Sieyès
National Assembly
Tennis Court Oath
Bastille
"Great Fear"
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Edmund Burke
Olympe de Gouges
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen
Jacobin Club
Toussaint-L'Ouverture / National Convention
Jean-Paul Marat
guillotine
Girondin
Georges Danton
Jacobin Club
Maximillian Robespierre
Committee of Public Safety
Jacques-René Hébert
Reign of Terror
Napoleon
Georges Danton
Jean Paul Marat

Industrial Revolution

George Stephenson
Samuel F. B. Morse
Manchester
Klemens von Metternich
Natioanlism
Queen Victoria
Romanticism / Thomas R. Malthus
Jeremy Bentham
Ten Hours Act
James Watt
Robert Fulton
Lives of Workers in early 1800’s
Charles Dickens

Imperialism