GBGD SEMINAR PROGRAM YEAR 5:
EUROPEAN FOUNDATIONS

YEAR 5 READING LIST:

Core Monthly Seminars

  1. Augustine, Confessions I
    Confessions, by Augustine
    translated by Thomas Williams
    Hackett Publishing, 2019
    ISBN-13: 978-1624667824
    available at Amazon

  2. Augustine,Confessions II
    Confessions, by Augustine
    translated by Thomas Williams
    Hackett Publishing, 2019
    ISBN-13: 978-1624667824
    available at Amazon

  3. Augustine, City of God I
    The City of God, by Augustine
    translated by Marcus Dods
    Modern Library, 1994
    ISBN-13: 978-0679600879
    available at Amazon

  4. Augustine, City of God II
    The City of God, by Augustine
    translated by Marcus Dods
    Modern Library, 1994
    ISBN-13: 978-0679600879
    available at Amazon

  5. Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy
    The Consolation of Philosophy, by Boethius
    translated by David Slavitt
    Harvard University Press; 2010
    ISBN-13: 978-0674048355
    available at Amazon

  6. Beowulf
    Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Bilingual Edition)
    translated by Seamus Heaney
    W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
    ISBN-13: 978-0393320978
    available at Amazon

  7. Anselm, Monologion and Proslogion
    Monologion and Proslogion: with the replies of Gaunilo and Anselm by Anselm
    translated by Thomas Williams
    Hackett Publishing Company, 1996
    ISBN-13: 978-0872202979
    available at Amazon

  8. The Song of Roland
    The Song of Roland
    translated by Michael A.H. Newth
    Italica Press, 2011
    ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1599102603
    available at Amazon

  9. The Saga of the People of Laxardal
    found in
    The Sagas of Icelanders
    preface by Jane Smiley, introduction by Robert Kellogg
    Penguin Classics, 2001
    ISBN-13: 978-0141000039
    available at Amazon

  10. Dante, Inferno I
    The Inferno, by Dante
    translated by Robert and Jean Hollander
    Vintage, 2002
    ISBN-13: 978-0385496988
    available at Amazon

  11. Dante, Inferno II
    The Inferno, by Dante
    translated by Robert and Jean Hollander
    Vintage, 2002
    ISBN-13: 978-0385496988
    available at Amazon

  12. Aquinas, Summa Theologica I
    The Hackett Aquinas: Basic Works
    edited by Jeffrey Hause and Robert Pasnau
    Hackett, 2014
    ISBN-13: 978-1624661242
    available at Amazon


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