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About Geoffrey Chaucer: Geoffrey Chaucer, an English poet, was born in 1342. Historians are uncertain about his exact date of birth. Geoffrey's well-to-do parents, John Chaucer and Agnes Copton, possessed several buildings in the vintage quarter in London. Not much is known about Geoffrey's school career.

Medical historians generally look to Hippocrates as the founder of medicine as a rational science. It was Hippocrates who finally freed medicine fromthe shackles of magic, superstition, and the supernatural.

I found a site with Prescott's book, Conquest of Peru, and many of his other literary works for free to read, electronically.

Professor Freedman opens by discussing why historians use the writings of Procopius and Gregory of Tours, a sixth century bishop whose history of the Merovingian kings is discussed the following week. Procopius's three works - The Wars, the adulatory Buildings, and the invective Secret History - are the best sources on the reign of the Emperor Justinian.

Has loads of information about Hammerabi himself, the history of his Babylon rule and a list of his laws.

* Explanation by historian, Charles F. Horne * Excerpt from The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed * Full translated text by L. W. King

Information about the code along with all 282 laws!