Janetta Rebold Benton, Pace University
Janetta Rebold Benton, Pace University
Robert J. DiYanni, Pace University
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The Broad Strokes of the Humanities.
Handbook for the Humanities provides a foundation of the most pertinent information needed to appreciate all that the Humanities have to offer. The text features advice to students on how to approach writing about this topic with confidence. Whether the handbook is used in conjunction with primary and secondary sources or as the core material in the classroom, it provides the essentials necessary for any student to comprehend the Humanities.
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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
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Benton & DiYanni
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Janetta Rebold Benton is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, 2012-13, and will lecture in the graduate school of Art History, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia. She is Distinguished Professor of Art History at Pace University, Pleasantville, NY. Dr. Benton presents subscription lecture series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Smithsonian Institution and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Benton holds degrees from Harvard, Brown, George Washington, and Cornell University.
Robert DiYanni teaches courses in literature, writing, critical thinking, and interdisciplinary humanities at New York University, where has taught for the past decade. He has also taught previously for the City University of New York (Queens College), for Pace University, and as a Visiting Professor at Harvard University. Among his books are Arts and Culture: An Introduction to the Humanities (with Janetta Rebold Benton); Literature: Reading Fiction, Poetry, and Drama, 6th edition; Modern American Poets, 2nd edition; 100 Great Essays, 5th edition; Frames of Mind, and The Scribner Handbook for Writers, 5th edition. His The Pearson Guide to Critical and Creative Thinking is forthcoming from Prentice Hall in 2013.
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