Literature
- Beowulf
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- The Canterbury Tales
- Dante Alighieri, Inferno
- Edmund Spenser, “Saint George and the Dragon” from The Faerie Queene
- Thomas Malory, a version of Le Morte d’Arthur
- One Shakespeare play: Macbeth, Henry V, or A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Writers and Thinkers
- St. Augustine
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Erasmus
- Edmund Spenser
- Sir Thomas More
- John Donne
- William Shakespeare
- Martin Luther
- Sir Thomas Wyatt (try stories of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn)
- Dante Alighieri
- Sir Thomas Malory
- John Knox
- John Calvin
- René Descartes