Revel Access Card For The Humanities Volume 1

REVEL for The Humanities: Culture, Continuity, and Change, Third Edition helps students to see context and make connections across the humanities, and to enjoy countless “ah-ha” moments as they piece together the cultural history of world. Believing that students learn best by remembering stories rather than memorizing facts, author Henry Sayre employs a narrative storytelling approach, deftly conveying multifaceted cultural experiences in a way that students can understand and will remember — throughout the course and beyond.

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Henry M. Sayre is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Oregon State University-Cascades Campus in Bend, Oregon. He earned his Ph.D. in American Literature from the University of Washington. He is producer and creator of the 10-part television series, A World of Art: Works in Progress, aired on PBS in the fall of 1997; and author of seven books, including A World of Art, The Visual Text of William Carlos Williams, The Object of Performance: The American Avante-Garde since 1970; and an art history book for children, Cave Paintings to Picasso.

PART I

1. The Rise of Culture: From Forest to Farm

2. The Ancient Near East: Power and Social Order in the Early Middle East

3. The Stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and FDun

4. The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece

5. Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World

6. Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty

7. Emerging Empires in the East: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty in China and India

PART TWO

8. The Flowering of Christianity: Faith and the Power of Belief in the Early First Millennium

9. The Rise and Spread of Islam: A New Religion

10. Fiefdom and Monastery, Pilgrimage and Crusade: The Early Medieval World in Europe

11. Centers of Culture: Court and City in the Larger World

12. The Gothic Style: Faith and Knowledge in an Age of Inquiry

13. Siena and Florence in the Fourteenth Century: Toward a New Humanism

PART III

14. Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy

15. The High Renaissance in Rome and Venice: Papal Patronage and Civic Pride

16. The Renaissance in the North: Between Wealth and Want

17. The Reformation: A New Church and the Arts

18. Encounter and Confrontation: The Impact of Increasing Global Interaction

19. England in the Tudor