Confessions of St.Augustine (Sacred Wisdom S.) by Frances Lincoln $128.66
This translation is illustrated with miniatures and decoration taken from illuminated manuscripts of the Confessions in the medieval collection at the British Library. The book is organized round extracts chosen to best express St Augustine's philosophy and mystical love of God.
The Humanistic Tradition, Book 2: Medieval Europe And The World Beyond by William C Brown Pub $30.90
Beginning with the birth of Christianity and of Buddhism, the second book of "The Humanistic Tradition" offers a wide-ranging look at the period from 0-1300 C.E. The book addresses the interaction between religion and culture in emerging Islamic societies while also drawing on art, music, literature, and architecture to draw a vivid portrait of life in Medieval Europe. It concludes with a...
Reality Through the Arts (7th Edition) by Prentice Hall $128.40
Reality Through the Arts provides a comprehensive introduction that covers both arts history and aesthetic perception in western and non-western cultures by covering all the artistic disciplines: drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture, theatre, music, dance, cinema, and literature. Reality Through the Arts is a brief text ideal for the one-semester...
The Agricola and The Germania by Digireads.com $10.99
"The Agricola and The Germania" are two important historical works by Cornelius Tacitus, an ancient Roman Senator and historian. The Agricola is a biography of the Roman general Gnaeus Julius Agricola as well as a geographic and ethnographic history of Ancient Britain. "The Germania" is an ethnographic study of the people believed by Tacitus to be part of the ancient Germanic tribes. While not as...
The Gospel of Judas, Second Edition by Rodolphe Kasser $12.95
For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history’s ultimate traitor. And far from being a...
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself (Boorstin Trilogy) by Phoenix $92.66
The obstacles to discovery - the illusions of knowledge -are also part of the story. Boorstin captures the illusions about the past - the earth before Columbus and Balboa, Magellan and Captain Cook, about the heavens before Copernicus and Galileo, about the human body before Paracelsus and Harvey, plants before Linnaeus, the past before Petrarch, wealth before Adam Smith, the physical world...
History of Italian Renaissance (Trade Version) (4th Edition) by Prentice Hall $85.00
For sophomore/senior survey courses of Italian Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. Long hailed as one of the most comprehensive and richly detailed chronologies of painting, sculpture, and architecture in Italy from c. 1200 AD to c. 1594 AD, this text focuses on the works of art, their creators, and the circumstances affecting their creation. This revision is designed to provide...
The Art of Ancient Egypt: Revised Edition by Harvard University Press $30.50
From the awesome grandeur of the Great Pyramids to the delicacy of a face etched on an amulet, the spellbinding power of ancient Egyptian art persists to this day. Spanning three thousand years, this beautifully illustrated history offers a thorough and delightfully readable introduction to the artwork even as it provides insight into questions that have long engaged experts and amateurs alike....
The Lives of the Artists (World's Classics) by Julia Conway Bondanella $11.95
These biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term "Renaissance," was the first to outline the influential theory of Renaissance art that traces a progression through Giotto, Brunelleschi, and finally the titanic figures of Michaelangelo, Da Vinci, and Raphael. ...
The Humanistic Tradition, Book 3: The European Renaissance , The Reformation, and Global Encounter by McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages $25.00
The explosion of creativity that marked the European Renaissance provoked an unprecedented age of exploration and of cross-cultural encounter. From the depths of the Black Plague to the heights of Shakespeare's sonnets, book three of The Humanistic Tradition provides an exciting portrait of this period. In a compelling counterpoint to her description of the Renaissance, Fiero devotes a...