Great Books
- Augustine, Confessions (c. 411)
- Augustine, City of God, Book 8 (c. 426)
- Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy (524)
- Koran (selections) (c. 650)
- Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731)
- Beowulf (c. 1000)
- Mabinogion (c. 1050)
- Anselm, Cur Deus Homo (c. 1090)
- Aquinas: Selected Writings (Robert Goodwin, ed.) (c. 1273)
- Dante, The Inferno (1320)
- Everyman (14th century)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c. 1400)
- Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (selections) (c. 1400)
- Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430)
- Malory, Le Morte d’Arthur (selections) (c. 1470)
- Erasmus, Education of a Christian Prince (selections) (1510)
- Machiavelli, The Prince (1513)
- Thomas More, Utopia (1516)
- Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians (c. 1520)
- John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (selections) (1536)
- Christopher Marlowe, Faustus (1588)
- Teresa of Avila, The Life of Saint Teresa of Avila by Herself (1588)
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590)
- William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600)
- William Shakespeare, any other plays (c. 1592–1611)