The humanistic tradition / by Gloria K. Fiero

By: Fiero, Gloria K [author]
Language: English Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2006Edition: Fifth EditionDescription: xix, 498 (25) pages : color illustrations 28 cmContent type: Text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780072910148; 0072910070Subject(s): Civilization, Western -- History | Humanism -- History | Roman world -- History | Greek world -- History | Europe -- HistoryDDC classification: 909.09821
Contents:
Prehistory and the birth of civilization -- First civilizations: Egypt, gods, rulers, and the social order; Mesopotamia, gods, rulers, and the social order; India and China, gods, rulers, and the social order -- Classical legacy: Greece, humanism and the speculative leap; Classical style; Rome, the rise to empire; China, the rise to empire -- Shaping of the Middle Ages: Flowering of faith, Christianity and Buddhism; Language of faith, symbolism and the arts; Islamic world, religion and culture -- Medieval West: Patterns of medieval life; Christianity and the medieval mind; Medieval synthesis in the arts -- World beyond the west: Asian civilizations, the artistic record -- Age of Renaissance: Adversity and challenge, the fourteenth-century transition; Classical humanism in the age of the Renaissance; Renaissance artists, disciples of nature, masters of invention -- Brave new world: Africa, the Americas, and cross-cultural encounter; Protest and reform, the waning of the old order.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Prehistory and the birth of civilization -- First civilizations: Egypt, gods, rulers, and the social order; Mesopotamia, gods, rulers, and the social order; India and China, gods, rulers, and the social order -- Classical legacy: Greece, humanism and the speculative leap; Classical style; Rome, the rise to empire; China, the rise to empire -- Shaping of the Middle Ages: Flowering of faith, Christianity and Buddhism; Language of faith, symbolism and the arts; Islamic world, religion and culture -- Medieval West: Patterns of medieval life; Christianity and the medieval mind; Medieval synthesis in the arts -- World beyond the west: Asian civilizations, the artistic record -- Age of Renaissance: Adversity and challenge, the fourteenth-century transition; Classical humanism in the age of the Renaissance; Renaissance artists, disciples of nature, masters of invention -- Brave new world: Africa, the Americas, and cross-cultural encounter; Protest and reform, the waning of the old order.

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