The Ascent of the West: From Prehistory Through the Renaissance (A History of Western Civilization)

TITLE......Page 4
COPYRIGHT......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 11
PALEOLITHIC SETTLEMENT......Page 22
EARLIEST DEVELOPMENTS......Page 23
UPPER PALEOLITHIC DEVELOPMENTS......Page 25
MESOLITHIC ADAPTATIONS......Page 29
THE ADOPTION OF FARMING......Page 34
THE LATE NEOLITHIC PERIOD......Page 39
THE INDO-EUROPEANS......Page 43
CHAPTER 2 THE METAL AGES......Page 45
THE CHRONOLOGY OF THE METAL AGES......Page 46
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COPPER AGE......Page 48
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE BRONZE AGE......Page 50
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IRON AGE......Page 56
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS......Page 57
CONTROL OVER RESOURCES......Page 58
CHANGING CENTRES OF WEALTH......Page 62
PRESTIGE AND STATUS......Page 66
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATURE AND CULTURE......Page 76
RITUALS, RELIGION, AND ART......Page 77
THE PEOPLE OF THE METAL AGES......Page 83
GREEKS......Page 89
A NATION OF CITY-STATES......Page 90
PEOPLE OF ACHIEVEMENT......Page 91
GREEK INFLUENCE......Page 93
ROMANS......Page 95
THE ROMAN EMPIRE......Page 96
ROMAN GOVERNMENT AND CITIZENRY......Page 98
ROME AND CHRISTIANITY......Page 99
BARBARIAN MIGRATIONS AND INVASIONS......Page 101
THE GERMANS AND HUNS......Page 102
THE RECONFIGURATION OF THE EMPIRE......Page 107
CHAPTER 4 THE MIDDLE AGES......Page 110
THE IDEA OF THE MIDDLE AGES......Page 112
THE TERM AND CONCEPT BEFORE THE 18TH CENTURY......Page 113
ENLIGHTENMENT SCORN AND ROMANTIC ADMIRATION......Page 116
THE MIDDLE AGES IN MODERN HISTORIOGRAPHY......Page 118
CHRONOLOGY......Page 121
LATE ANTIQUITY: THE RECONFIGURATION OF THE ROMAN WORLD......Page 122
THE ORGANIZATION OF LATE IMPERIAL CHRISTIANITY......Page 124
KINGS AND PEOPLES......Page 129
THE GREAT COMMISSION......Page 130
THE BISHOPS OF ROME......Page 132
THE MEDITERRANEAN WORLD DIVIDED......Page 135
CHARLEMAGNE AND THE CAROLINGIAN DYNASTY......Page 136
CAROLINGIAN DECLINE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES......Page 141
GROWTH AND INNOVATION......Page 143
DEMOGRAPHIC AND AGRICULTURAL GROWTH......Page 144
TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS......Page 147
URBAN GROWTH......Page 148
REFORM AND RENEWAL......Page 150
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THOUGHT AND LEARNING......Page 154
ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION......Page 158
DEVOTIONAL LIFE......Page 164
THE EMERGENCE OF A NEW ECCLESIASTICAL DISCIPLINE......Page 168
CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM, AND ISLAM......Page 170
THE OFFICE AND PERSON OF THE KING......Page 173
INSTRUMENTS OF ROYAL GOVERNANCE......Page 176
THE THREE ORDERS......Page 177
CRISIS, RECOVERY, AND RESILIENCE......Page 180
CHAPTER 5 THE RENAISSANCE......Page 183
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE......Page 184
URBAN GROWTH......Page 185
WARS OF EXPANSION......Page 189
ITALIAN HUMANISM......Page 191
RENAISSANCE THOUGHT......Page 201
POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND......Page 209
NORTHERN HUMANISM......Page 216
CHRISTIAN MYSTICS......Page 219
THE GROWTH OF VERNACULAR LITERATURE......Page 221
RENAISSANCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY......Page 223
CONCLUSION......Page 227
GLOSSARY......Page 230
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 232
INDEX......Page 234
BACK COVER......Page 246