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Preface

PART ONE The Age of the Renaissance

(82)

Timeline

(1)

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Adversity and Challenge: The Fourteenth-Century Transition

(20)

The Black Death

(1)

Reading 3.1 From Boccaccio's Introduction to the Decameron (1351)

(3)

The Effects of the Black Death

(1)

Europe in Transition

(4)

The Rise of Constitutional Monarchy

(1)

The Hundred Years' War

(1)

The Decline of the Church

(1)

Anticlericalism and the Rise of Devotional Piety

(2)

Literature in Transition

(1)

The Social Realism of Boccaccio

(1)

Reading 3.2 From Boccaccio's ``Tale of Filippa'' from the Decameron (1351)

(2)

The Feminism of Christine de Pisan

(1)

Reading 3.3 From Christine de Pisan's Book of the City of Ladies (1405)

(1)

The Social Realism of Chaucer

(1)

Reading 3.4 From Chaucer's ``Prologue'' and ``The Miller's Tale'' in the Canterbury Tales (ca. 1390)

(2)

Art and Music in Transition

(7)

Giotto's New Realism

(2)

Devotional Realism and Portraiture

(2)

The Ars Nova in Music

(3)

Summary

(1)

Music Listening Selections

(1)

Glossary

(1)

Classical Humanism in the Age of the Renaissance

(21)

Italy: Birthplace of the Renaissance

(3)

Petrarch: ``Father of Humanism''

(1)

Reading 3.5 From Petrarch's Letter to Lapo da Castiglionchio (ca. 1351)

(1)

Reading 3.6 From Petrarch's Canzoniere (ca. 1350)

(1)

Italian Renaissance Humanism

(2)

Alberti and Renaissance Virtu

(1)

Reading 3.7 From Alberti's On the Family (1443)

(1)

Reading 3.8 From Pico's Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)

(3)

Castiglione: The Well-Rounded Person

(1)

Reading 3.9 From Castiglione's The Book of the Courtier (1518)

(4)

Renaissance Women

(2)

Reading 3.10 From Marinella's The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects of Men (1600)

(3)

Machiavelli and Power Politics

(1)

Reading 3.11 From Machiavelli's The Prince (1513)

(2)

Summary

(1)

Glossary

(1)

Renaissance Artists: Disciples of Nature, Masters of Invention

(39)

Renaissance Art and Patronage

(1)

The Early Renaissance

(10)

The Revival of the Classical Nude

(3)

Early Renaissance Architecture

(5)

The Renaissance Portrait

(2)

Early Renaissance Artist-Scientists

(3)

Leonardo da Vinci as Artist-Scientist

(3)

Reading 3.12 From Leonardo da Vinci's Notes (ca. 1510)

(2)

The High Renaissance

(1)

Leonardo

(1)

Reading 3.13 From Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Architects, and Sculptors (1550)

(2)

Raphael

(1)

Architecture of the High Renaissance: Bramante and Palladio

(11)

Michelangelo and Heroic Idealism

(3)

The High Renaissance in Venice

(6)

The Music of the Renaissance

(4)

Early Renaissance Music: Dufay

(1)

High Renaissance Music: Josquin

(1)

The Madrigal

(1)

Instrumental Music of the Renaissance

(1)

Renaissance Dance

(1)

Summary

(2)

Music Listening Selections

(1)

Glossary

(2)

PART TWO A Brave New World

(70)

Timeline

(1)

Africa, the Americas, and Cross-Cultural Encounter

(36)

Global Travel and Trade

(1)

The African Cultural Heritage

(5)

West African Kingdoms

(1)

African Literature

(1)

Reading 3.14 From Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali

(3)

Reading 3.15 Three African Myths on the Origin of Death

(2)

African Poetry

(1)

Reading 3.16 Selections from African Poetry

(4)

African Music and Dance

(1)

African Sculpture

(2)

African Architecture

(1)

Cross-Cultural Encounter

100

(1)

Ibn Battuta in West Africa

100

(1)

Reading 3.17 From Ibn Battuta's Book of Travels (1354)

100

(3)

The Europeans in Africa

102

(1)

The Americas

103

(4)

Native American Cultures

103

(1)

The Arts of Native North America

103

(4)

Reading 3.18 ``A Prayer of the Night Chant'' (Navajo)

107

(1)

Reading 3.19 Two Native American Tales

108

(8)

The Arts of Meso- and South America

109

(1)

The Maya

110

(3)

The Empires of the Inkas and the Aztecs

113

(3)

Cross-Cultural Encounter

116

(1)

The Spanish in the Americas

116

(1)

Reading 3.20 From Cortes' Letters from Mexico (1520)

116

(4)

The Aftermath of Conquest

118

(1)

The Columbian Exchange

119

(1)

Summary

120

(1)

Music Listening Selections

120

(1)

Glossary

120

(1)

Protest and Reform: The Waning of the Old Order

121

(32)

The Temper of Reform

121

(1)

The Impact of Technology

121

(1)

Christian Humanism and the Northern Renaissance

121

(1)

Luther and the Protestant Reformation

122

(3)

Reading 3.21 From Luther's Address to the German Nobility (1520)

125

(1)

The Spread of Protestantism

125

(1)

Music and the Reformation

126

(1)

Northern Renaissance Art

126

(9)

Durer and Printmaking

127

(2)

The Paintings of Grunewald, Bosch, and Brueghel

129

(6)

Sixteenth-Century Literature

135

(1)

Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (1511)

135

(1)

Reading 3.22 From Erasmus' The Praise of Folly

136

(2)

More's Utopia

137

(1)

Reading 3.23 From More's Utopia (1516)

138

(1)

The Wit of Cervantes

139

(1)

Reading 3.24 From Cervantes' Don Quijote (1613)

139

(2)

Rabelais and Montaigne

140

(1)

Reading 3.25 From Montaigne's On Cannibals (1580)

141

(3)

The Genius of Shakespeare

143

(1)

Reading 3.26 From Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609)

144

(4)

The Shakespearean Stage

144

(1)

Shakespeare's Plays

145

(3)

Reading 3.27 From Shakespeare's Hamlet (1602)

148

(2)

Reading 3.28 From Shakespeare's Othello (1604)

150

(2)

Summary

152

(1)

Glossary

152

(1)

Suggestions for Reading

153

(2)

Credits

155

(1)

Index

156

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