Synopses & Reviews
Introduction to the Humanities, Combined Edition provides a comprehensive, color and illustration-filled compilation of the history of civilization. Volume One encompasses the development of art, culture, society, architecture and religion beginning with prehistory and the ancient Near East and progressing through the Renaissance periods. Volume Two examines humanity and its components from the reformation and reform in sixteenth-century Europe through to present day society. The volumes provide extensive social and cultural background material reinforced with fascinating information on key persons, events, ideas and inventions of the time period to provides readers with a ‘you are there’ experience. Cross-Cultural Influence features highlight influences exchanged between different cultures to give readers a look at contact and artistic exchanges between cultures. Thematic Parallels sections compare universal themes over different time periods and in different places across the world, providing readers with an extensive and fascinating look at humanity through the ages. Introduction to the Humanities, Combined Edition examines the following time periods: prehistory; the ancient near east; ancient Egypt; the Aegean world; the emergence of historical Greece; ancient Greece–classical to Hellenistic; ancient Rome; pagan cults, Judaism, and the rise of Christianity; the Byzantine Empire and the development of Islam; the early Middle Ages and the development of Romanesque; the development and expansion of gothic; the transition from gothic to early renaissance; the early renaissance in Italy and northern Europe and the high renaissance in Italy and early mannerism; the reformation and reform in sixteenth-century Europe; Absolutism and Baroque; from enlightenment to revolution in the 18th century; the early nineteenth century and the romantic movement; nineteenth-century realism; industry, and social change; the late nineteenth century; turn of the century to World War I; World War I through World War II; 1945 to 1989 — the cold war to détente; and after 1989. For those interested in a comprehensive view of humanities throughout the ages.
Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
In Defense of Liberal Studies
Coluccio Salutati
The Dignity of Man
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Portrait of a Renaissance Artist
Leonardo da Vinci
The Prince, the Nobility, and the People
Niccolò Machiavelli
Whether It Is Better to Be Loved than Feared
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Ideal Courtier and the Ideal Court
Baldesar Castiglione
What Women Want
Baldesar Castiglione
The Empire of Folly
Erasmus
Against the Sale of Indulgences
Martin Luther
A Giant's Education
François Rabelais
A Brief Description of the Customs of Cannibals
Michel de Montaigne
Saint Teresa's Spiritual Ecstasies
Saint Teresa of Ávila
Faustus's Bargain
Christopher Marlowe
Sonnets
William Shakespeare
The Forms of Government
Thomas Hobbes
On Ideas
John Locke
Don Quixote Becomes a Knight
Miguel de Cervantes
An Inside View of Louis XIV's Court
Madame de Sévigné
How to Become a Gentleman
Molière
The Divine Right of Kings
James I
The Redemption of Mankind
John Milton
The Adventures of Candide
Voltaire
The Troglodytes
Montesquieu
Freedom in Chains
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
A False System of Education
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Giant's Property
Jonathan Swift
Robinson Crusoe Shipwrecked
Daniel Defoe
Tom Jones Grows Up
Henry Fielding
Horrors of a Slave Ship
Olaudah Equiano
Faust's Pact with Mephistopheles
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
William Wordsworth
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Family Obstacles
Jane Austen
Making a Monster
Mary Shelley
The Erlking
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Natural Selection
Charles Darwin
Nothing to Lose but Their Chains
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Emma's Enchanted Ball
Gustave Flaubert
Coketown
Charles Dickens
Sickness and Crime
Samuel Butler
Murder of an Elderly Woman
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Impoverished Nobility
Anton Chekhov
Anna O. and the Founding of Psychoanalysis
Sigmund Freud and Josef Breuer
The Swan
Charles Baudelaire
A Painter on the Edge
Vincent van Gogh
Making a Revolution
V. I. Lenin
The Collective Unconscious
Carl Gustav Jung
The Happy Prince and The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde
A Mad Tea-Party
Lewis Carroll
The Transformation (First Section)
Franz Kafka
The Tradition of England
D. H. Lawrence
The Myth of Sisyphus
Albert Camus
A Flaw in the Pattern
George Orwell \n
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