Why the West Rules--For Now (105 page)

307
“
Now was revealed
”: Tacitus,
Histories
1.4.

314
“
Why ask for a song
”: Sidonius Apollinaris,
Poems
12.

314
“
All Gaul
”: Orientus,
Commonitorium
2.184.

320
“
Snapped rooftrees
”:
The Ruin
(anon.), cited from Dixon 1992, p. 146.

320
coins that float
: cited from Dien 2007, p. 217.

320
“
Surely you do not
” and “Have you ever”: Ruan Ji, “Biography of Mr. Greatman,” translated in Balazs 1964, p. 238.

323
“
Today there is no
”:
History of Wei
114.3,045, translated in Gernet 1995, p. 7.

325
“
He neither bathed
”: Athanasius,
Life of Saint Antony
27.

326
“
We may hear
” and “The clergy”: Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, vol. 3 (1781), subchapter “General Observations on the Fall of the Roman Empire in the West.”

7. THE EASTERN AGE

337
“
By cutting through
”: Pi Rixiu,
Quan Tang wen
797.8363b, translated in Xiong 2006, p. 93.

337
“
Hundreds of houses
”: Bai Juyi, translated in Waley 1961, p. 161. The poem dates to 827.

339
“
A bride serves
”:
Family Instructions of the Grandfather
, translated in Ebrey 1996, p. 127.

342
“
If they do not die
”: Zhu Yu,
Conversations in Pingzhou
1,119, translated in Duyvendak 1949, p. 24.

345
“
Everyone born
”: Procopius,
History of the Wars
1.24. The gossip about Justinian’s demons and Theodora’s orifices comes from the same author’s
Secret History
12.20 and 9.18.

346
“
nobody would go
”: John of Ephesus, quoted in
Pseudo-Dionysus, Chronicle of Zuqnin 5
, translated in Witakowski 1996, p. 93.

348
“
Immense joy
”: Anonymous treatise, “Return of the Relics of the Holy Martyr Anastasius the Persian from Persia to His Monastery” 1.99, translated in Kaegi 2003, p. 206.

348
“
Let us all
”: Sebeos of Armenia,
History
36, translated in Thomson 1999, p. 73.

350
“
Recite!
”: Koran 96.1–5. A minority of scholars believes that the first recitation was actually verse 74.

351
“
My heart
”: ’Umar, cited in Ibn Ishaq,
Sira
228, translated in Guillaume 1971, p. 158.

351
“
Fight for the sake
”: Koran 2.190.

351
“
Be peaceful
”: Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots,” November 1963, cited from DeGroot 2008, p. 117.

351
,
352
“
Who but
” and “
Our God
”: Koran 2.130 and 29.46.

353
“
A victorious line
”: Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, vol. 5 (1788), chapter 52.

355
“
craving beauty
,” “Flowery hairpins,” and “Our souls”: Bai Juyi,
Everlasting Wrong
, translated by Witter Bynner in Birch 1965, pp. 266, 269.

362
“
a Rome
”: Anon.,
Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa
, line 97, translated in Godman 1985, p. 202.

367
“
Give these monks
”: Gerald of Wales, cited from Fagan 2008, p. 36.

367
“
pagans are the worst
”: Anonymous document, cited in Bartlett 1993, pp. 136–37.

369
“
now not pope
”: Henry IV, letter to Gregory VII, January 24, 1076. Translated in Mommsen and Morrison 1962, pp. 151–52.

370
“
the formation
”: R. Moore 1987.

370
“
age of cathedrals
”: Duby 1981.

370
“
One night
”: Peter Abelard,
Story of My Misfortunes
, translated in Muckle 1964, p. 38.

372
“
a savage
”: William of Apulia,
La geste de Robert Guiscard
II.427–28, translated in Bartlett 1993, p. 86.

372
“
Whenever battle
”: Anna Comnena,
Alexiad
11.6.3, translated in Bartlett 1993, p. 86.

373
“
dissolved the militarists’ power
”: Bi Yuan,
Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government
(1797), year 2, translated in Mote 1999, p. 103.

375
“
Buddhism is no more
”: Han Yu, “Memorial on the Bone of the Buddha” (819), translated in de Bary and Bloom 1999, pp. 583–84.

376
“
The true scholar
”: Fan Zhongyan,
On Yueyang Tower
, translated in Hucker 1975, p. 364.

377
“
The rivers and lakes
”: Ye Shi, translated in Shiba and Elvin 1970, p. 76.

378
“
The morning sun
”: Daoqian, “On the Way to Guizong Monastery,” translated in Shiba and Elvin 1970, p. 357.

379
“
several times cheaper
”: Wang Zhen,
Treatise on Agriculture
19.13a, 22.4a, translated in Elvin 1973, pp. 195, 198.

379
,
380
“
the resemblance
” and “but if the line”: Elvin 1973, p. 198.

381
“
Didn’t you see her
”: Su Shi, “Stone Coal” (c. 1080), translated in Wagner 2001b, pp. 51–52. I would like to thank Professor Wagner and Professor Nathan Sivin for discussing this text with me.

8. GOING GLOBAL

384
“
I can tell you
”: Marco Polo,
The Travels
, translated in Latham 1958, p. 223. On palaces, see pp. 125–26; riches, p. 149; the Yangzi, p. 209; bridges, p. 163; food, p. 215; young ladies, p. 196; wives, p. 217; courtesans, p. 216; pears, p. 215; black stone, p. 156; fat fish, p, 215; porcelain, p. 238.

389
“
as lines of writing
”: Yaqut al-Hamawi, translated in Browne 1902, vol. 2, p. 437.

391
“
Never has there been
” “an immense horde” and “followed after strange gods”: Matthew Paris,
English History
, translated in Giles 1852, vol. 1, p. 314.

392
“
That sunny dome!
”: Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Kubla Khan
(1797), line 47.

393
“
would sit
”: Rashid al-Din,
Assembly of Histories
, translated in Boyle 1971, p. 84.

393
“
Just as God
”: Mongke Khan, audience with William of Rübruck (1254), translated in C. Dawson 1955, p. 195.

396
“
Civilization
”: Ibn Khaldun,
The Muqaddimah
, vol. 1, page 64, cited from Dols 1976, p. 67.

397
“
Swellings appeared
”: Jean de Venette,
Chronicle
, 1348, translated in Kirchner and Morrison 1986, p. 455.

397
“
People spat
”: as-Safadi, cited in Dols 1976, p. 80.

397
“
The souls of men
”: Ibn Nubatah, as quoted by al-Maqrizi,
as-Suluk li-ma‘rifat duwal al-muluk
, part II, vol. 3, page 790, cited from Dols 1976, p. 174.

397
“
green-eyed Christian[s]
”: Chuan Heng,
Unofficial History of the Last Yuan Emperor
23a–b, cited in Dardess 1973, p. 105.

398
“
We ask God’s forgiveness
”: Ibn al-Wardi,
Risalat an’naba’
, cited from Dols 1976, p. 114.

398
“
My mind reels
”: Matteo Villani,
Chronicles
, 1348, translated in Kirchner and Morrison 1986, pp. 448–49.

399
“
Stripped to the waist
”: Jean de Venette,
Chronicle
, 1349, translated in Kirchner and Morrison 1986, pp. 457–58.

403
“
the earthly heaven
”: Gibbon,
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
, vol. 6 (1788), chapter 68.

404
“
into such a state
”: Niccolò Machiavelli,
Florentine Histories
(1520–25), Book 5, Chapter 1, translation from
http://www.gutenberg.org
.

406
“
For thirty-one years
”: Hongwu, translated in Carrington-Goodrich 1976, p. 390.

406
“
I do not care
”: Emperor Xuande,
Xuanzong shi lu
(1438) 105, cited in Levathes 1994, p. 173.