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9780205973132

The Humanities Culture, Continuity and Change, Volume 1

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    9780205973132

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    0205973132

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2014-01-08
  • Publisher: Pearson

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Summary

See context and make connections across the humanities.

 

The Humanities: Culture, Continuity and Change, now in a third edition, has become, in a very short period of time, the best selling Introduction to Humanities text on the market. With its message of “see context and make connections across the humanities,” students 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 to the humanities, deftly conveying multifaceted cultural experiences in a way that students can understand and will remember–throughout the course and beyond.

 

This third edition helps instructors and students by connecting the learning objectives in each chapter with MyArtsLab, an online learning program which brings the arts to life. Key learning tools within MyArtsLab include new listening guides for the musical selections, new Closer Look tours for every chapter entitled “Continuing Presence of the Past”, architectural panoramas and simulations to help students visualize key monuments and how they were built, and more!

 

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  • Makes Connections and Shows Relevance: New Continuing Presence of the Past features help students to understand how cultural artifacts of the past have informed present works of art and culture.
  • Emphasizes Critical Thinking: Chapter opening and ending questions encourage students to focus and think critically about the issues to come.
  • Focuses on Contemporary Findings: The new third edition has been updated to reflect the latest research from around the globe.

Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; MyArtsLab does not come packaged with this content. If you would like to purchase both the physical text and MyArtsLab search for ISBN-10: 0205996205 / ISBN-13: 9780205996209. This package includes: 0205239927 / 9780205239924 NEW MyArtsLab with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for The Humanities: Culture, Continuity and Change, Volume I and

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Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

In this Section:

    I) Brief Table of Contents

    II) Detailed Table of Contents  


I) Brief Table of Contents

 

PART ONE

Chapter 1. The Rise of Culture: From forest to Farm

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

Chapter 3. The stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and FDun

Chapter 4. The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece

Chapter 5. Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World

Chapter 6. Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty

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

 

PART TWO

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

PART TWO

Chapter 14. Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy

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

Chapter 16. The Renaissance in the North; Between Wealth and Want

Chapter 17. The Reformation: A new Church and the Arts

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

Chapter 19. England in the Tudor Age: “This Other Eden”

Chapter 20. The EARLY Counter-Reformation and Mannerism: Restraint and Invention

 


II) Detailed Table of Contents

 

PART ONE

The Ancient World and the Classical Past

 

Chapter 1. The Rise of Culture: From forest to Farm

The Beginnings of Culture in the Paleolithic Era

The Rise of Agriculture in the Neolithic Era 

The Role of Myth in Cultural Life

Sacred Sites: The Example of the Americas

 

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

The Cultures of Mesopotamia, 3200—612 BCE   

Mesopotamian Literature  

The Hebrews

The Late Empires: Neo-Babylonia and Persia  

 

Chapter 3. The stability of Ancient Egypt: Flood and FDun

The Nile and Its Culture

The Old Kingdom

The Middle Kingdom at Thebes

The New Kingdom

The Late Period, the Kushites, and the Fall of Egypt 

  

Chapter 4. The Aegean World and the Rise of Greece

The Cultures of the Aegean

The Homeric Epics

The Greek Polis  

The Rise of Athenian Democracy  

 

Chapter 5. Golden Age Athens and the Hellenic World

The Good Life and the Politics of Athens  

Pericles and the School of Hellas  

Philosophy and the Polis  

The Theater of the People  

The Hellenistic World  

 

Chapter 6. Rome: Urban Life and Imperial Majesty

Origins of Roman Culture  

Republican Rome  

Imperial Rome 

The Late Roman Empire: Moral and Social Decline  

 

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

Early Chinese Culture  

Imperial China  

Ancient India  

 

PART TWO

The Medieval World and the Shaping of Culture

 

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

Developments in Judaic Culture  

The Rise of Christianity  

Christian Rome  

The Byzantine Empire and Its Church  

The Later Byzantine Empire  

 

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

The Prophet Muhammad  

The Spread of Islam  

Islam in Africa and Spain  

The Arts of the Islamic World  

 

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

Anglo-Saxon Artistic Style and Culture  

Carolingian Culture and the Frankish Kings  

The Romanesque: The Pilgrimage Churchand the Monastic Abbey  

The Crusades  

Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Art of Courtly Love  

 

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

Developments in China  

Indian and Southeast Asian Civilizations  

Japan: The Court, The Military, and Spiritual Life  

The Cultures of Africa  

The Cultures of Mesoamerica and South America in the Classic Era  

 

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

Saint-Denis and the Gothic Cathedral  

The Rise of the University  

The Radiant Style and the Court of Louis IX  

The Gothic in Italy  

 

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

Siena and Florence: Civic and Religious Life in Tuscany  

Painting: A Growing Naturalism  

Dante and the Rise of Vernacular Literature in Europe  

The Black Death and Its Literary Aftermath  

 

PART TWO

The Renaissance and The age of Encounter

 

Chapter 14. Florence and the Early Renaissance: Humanism in Italy

The State as a Work of Art: The Baptistery Doors, Florence Cathedral, and a New Perspective  

The Medici Family and Humanism  

Beyond Florence: The Ducal Courts and the Arts  

Florence after the Medici: The New Republic  

 

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

The Art of the Papal Court in Rome  

The High Renaissance in Venice  

Women in Italian Humanist Society  

New Trends in Venetian Literature, Music, and Architecture  

 

Chapter 16. The Renaissance in the North; Between Wealth and Want

Art, Commerce, and Merchant Patronage  

Literature, Tapestry, Dance, and Music in Northern Europe  

The German Tradition  

 

Chapter 17. The Reformation: A new Church and the Arts

Erasmus, Luther, and the Reformation  

The Spread of the Reformation  

The Printing Press: A Force for Ideas and Art  

From Religious to Secular Art  

 

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

The Spanish in the Americas  

West African Culture and the Portuguese  

India and Europe: Cross-Cultural Connections  

China: The Ming Dynasty (1368—1644)  

Japan: Court Patronage and Spiritual Practice  

 

Chapter 19. England in the Tudor Age: “This Other Eden”

The Reign of Henry VIII  

Elizabethan England  

The Elizabethan Stage  

The English in Virginia  

 

Chapter 20. The EARLY Counter-Reformation and Mannerism: Restraint and Invention

The Counter-Reformation  

Michelangelo and the Rise of Mannerism  

Mannerism in Art: A Matter of Decorum  

Inquisition and Innovation 

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