Table of Contents
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents 2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Early Civilizations: Sumer To Egypt
Chapter 2: Ancient Greece
Chapter 3: Ancient Rome
Chapter 4: Judaism, Christianity, And Islam
Chapter 5: Middle Ages
Chapter 6: Early Renaissance
Chapter 7: Later Renaissance
Chapter 8: Seventeenth Century (Baroque Era)
Chapter 9: Eighteenth Century (Enlightenment)
Chapter 10: Early Nineteenth Century
Chapter 11: Later Nineteenth Century
Chapter 12: Early Twentieth Century
Chapter 13: Later Twentieth Century
Chapter 14: Twenty-First Century
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: Early Civilizations: Sumer To Egypt
Prehistory
Mesopotamia
Spotlight: Beer
Sumeria
Akkad
Assyria
Babylon
Persia
Egypt
Spotlight: The First Poet: Enheduanna
Chapter 2: Ancient Greece
Spotlight: Socrates
Spotlight: Sappho
Chapter 3: Ancient Rome
Etruscans
Roman Republic
Roman Empire
Spotlight: Seneca
Chapter 4: Judaism, Christianity, And Islam
Judaism
Christianity
Spotlight: Revelation
Islam
Chapter 5: Middle Ages
“Dark Ages”
Carolingian
Ottonian
Romanesque
Spotlight: The Magna Carta
Spotlight: Mont Saint-Michel
Spotlight: Leaning Tower of Pisa, 1174
Spotlight: San Marco, Venice, 1063 f.; mosaics, c.1200
Spotlight: Bayeux “Tapestry,” after 1066
Spotlight: Nicholas of Verdun, 1181
Gothic
Spotlight: Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 14th C
Spotlight: Unicorn Tapestries
Spotlight: Christine de Pizan
Spotlight: Hildegard of Bingen
Italy in the Later Middle Ages
Spotlight: Campanile, Florence
Chapter 6: Early Renaissance
Background
Italy
Spotlight: Renaissance Courts
Northern Europe
Chapter 7: Later Renaissance
Background
Italy
Spotlight: Bramante, Tempietto, Rome: diminutive dome
Mannerism
Northern Europe
Spotlight: Nostradamus and Renaissance Make-up
Chapter 8: Seventeenth Century (Baroque Era)
Background
Spotlight: Telescope and Microscope: Galileo and van Leeuwenhoek
Italy and Spain
Italy
Spain
Northern Europe
Spotlight: Poussinistes versus Rubenistes
Chapter 9: Eighteenth Century (Enlightenment)
Background
Spotlight: Enlightenment Thought and Women
Spotlight: Emily du Chatelet
Rococo
Neoclassicism
Chapter 10: Early Nineteenth Century
Background
Spotlight: Clara Schuman and Fanny Mendelssohn
Spotlight: Poetry and Song: Erlking
Spotlight: Three Sister Novelists: The Brontes
Realism
Chapter 11: Later Nineteenth Century
Background
Spotlight: Florence Nightingale
Impressionism
Post-Impressionism
Spotlight: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Chapter 12: Early Twentieth Century
Background
Spotlight: Madame Curie
Spotlight: Battleship Potemkin
Chapter 13: Later Twentieth Century
Background
Spotlight: Film
Spotlight: Robin Hood in the Movies
Chapter 14: Twenty-First Century
Background
