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Ancient tradition challenges the view that mankind is ever progressing from ape-like origins towards an apotheosis of humanity. The study of history tends to confirm the contrary thesis of a gradual descent from a golden age to an age of iron. Yet throughout history there have arisen societies that rise above decline to exhibit the characteristics of a high civilisation, where knowledge and art flourish and inspire later generations. The Advancement of Civilisation in the Western World seeks to portray these exemplary times of human genius, whilst showing them against the background of oft-recurring times of darkness. This is a series of 3 volumes which charts the advancement of civilisation from Ancient Egypt to the 20th Century through the study of great individuals or of ordinary people touched for a moment by a vision of greatness. All 3 can be purchased together here, or separately as individual volumes.
Contents
Volume 1
Introduction
Part 1: Foundations
Chapter 1: A Time to Live The Nature of History
Chapter 2: The Ages of Man The Great Cycles
Part 2: Egyptian Civilisation
Chapter 3: God Beyond All Name Egyptian Philosophy and Religion
Chapter 4: Giants in the Earth The Old Kingdom
Chapter 5: Renewing Births The Middle and New Kingdoms and the Decline of Egypt
Part 3: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Homeric Culture
Chapter 6: Minotaur Theseus and Ancient Crete
Chapter 7: Agamemnon's Return Mycenaean Society
Chapter 8: One is the Race of Gods and Men Culture and Religion
Chapter 9: Since Peace is in the Land The Greek Polis
Chapter 10:The Crown of Wild Olive The Olympic Games
Chapter 11: Obedient to their Laws Lycurgus & Sparta
Chapter 12: Model Cities Colonisation & Solon
Chapter 13: The Tomb of the Body Pythagoras; Egyptian & Eastern Influences
Chapter 14: The Gates of Heaven Reforms of Cleisthenes & the Battle of Marathon
Chapter 15: Triumph of the Greeks The Persian War
Chapter 16: Alliance into Empire The Delian League
Chapter 17: The Classical Moment Athenian Culture
Chapter 18: The Saving Bulwark Pericles
Chapter 19: A Vision of Hidden Things The Philosophy of Unity
Chapter 20: Death of a Culture The Peloponnesian War
Part 4: Graeco-Roman Civilisation: Hellenistic Culture
Chapter 21: A Draught of Hemlock The Teaching of Socrates
Chapter 22: Scourge of Tyranny The Career of Epaminondas
Chapter 23: Philosopher Kings Plato's Political Philosophy
Chapter 24: Son of Zeus Alexander the Great
Chapter 25: Our Fathers' Mingled Blood The Foundation of Rome
Chapter 26: Sacred Fire Numa Pompilius
Chapter 27: Brave Days of Old The Kings of Rome
Chapter 28: Destined to Grow Great The Republic Conquers Italy
Chapter 29: Natural Justice Growth of Roman Government and Law
Chapter 30: Tempered in the Fire War with Carthage
Chapter 31: The Fetters of Greece The Roman Conquest of Greece
Chapter 32: Land and Liberty The Gracchi's Land Reform
Chapter 33: Cruel Men of Rome Decline of the Republic
Chapter 34: But One Only Man Julius Caesar
Chapter 35: A Better Age of Gold The Rule of Augustus
Part 5: The Rise of Christian Civilisation
Chapter 36: I Am the True Vine The Life of Jesus Christ
Chapter 37: When Uricon the City Stood Roman Britain
Chapter 38: Care of the Churches St Paul and the Early Church
Chapter 39: One True Nobility The Empire from Trajan to Marcus Aurelius
Chapter 40: Saints and Martyrs The Growth of the Church to the Council of Chalcedon
Chapter 41: Long Autumn of Empire The Fall of the Western Empire and the Creation of Constantinople
Bibliography
Index
Index of Maps
Volume 2
Acknowledgement
Image Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: The Creation of Medieval Culture
Chapter 1: The Once and Future King King Arthur
Chapter 2: A Being Self-sufficient Boethius
Chapter 3: The Way Found by Us The Empire of Justinian
Chapter 4: One Sacred Work The Beginning of Monasticism
Chapter 5: Servant of the Servants of God Gregory the Great
Chapter 6: Beneath the Banner of Muhammad The Rise of Islam
Chapter 7: The Bonds of Kinship The Nature of the Anglo-Saxons
Chapter 8: A Host of Heroes The Growth of Unity in Anglo-Saxon England
Part 2: The Carolingian Renaissance
Chapter 9: New Athens The Age of Charlemagne
Chapter 10:The Greatest Treasure-giver of all the Kings Alfred the Great
Chapter 11:The Peace of all Christians Otto the Great
Chapter 12:The Annihilation of Hades The Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian Emperors
Chapter 13:Cruel Injustice Feudalism in the Eleventh Century
Chapter 14:Redemption John Scotus Eriugena and Anselm
Part 3: The Twelfth Century Renaissance
Chapter 15:The Royal and Ancient Seat The Character of Paris in the Twelfth Century
Chapter 16:How Shall a Man not Sing? The Awakening of Reason
Chapter 17:The Land which He had Promised Them Economic Revival in the Twelfth Century
Chapter 18:Under God and the Law Henry II and the Common Law
Chapter 19:Soldiers of Christ Chivalry and the Crusades
Chapter 20:The Imitation of Christ Crisis in the Medieval Church
Chapter 21:The Law Makes the King Magna Carta and the English Parliament
Chapter 22:La Douce France St Louis
Part 4: The Decline of Medieval Culture
Chapter 23:The Love that Moves the Sun Dante and Late Medieval Italy
Chapter 24:Houmout; Ich Dene The Black Prince and the Hundred Years' War
Chapter 25:The Roots of the Truth Faith Wycliffe and Hus
Chapter 26:The Dance of Death The End of the Middle Ages
Bibliography
Index
Volume 3
Acknowledgements
Image Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: The City of Good Government The Master Builders of Quattrocento Florence
Chapter 2: Rejoice in the Present The Sources of the Florentine Renaissance
Chapter 3: At the Feet of the Master The Growth of the Renaissance
Chapter 4: The New Found Land Exploration and Land Development
Chapter 5: The Way of Reason Religious and Social Conflict in the Sixteenth Century
Chapter 6: This Side of the Sea and Beyond The Siege of Malta 1565
Chapter 7: The Melody of our Sweet Isle The Elizabethan Age
Chapter 8: Men of Butter William the Silent and the Dutch Struggle for Independence
Chapter 9: The Seven Sounding Harmony The Origins of Modern Science
Chapter 10: The Lion of the North Gustavus Adolphus and the Thirty Years War
Chapter 11: Whose Slaves the Poor Shall Be? The Civil War in England
Chapter 12: Batavian Freedom The Golden Age of the Dutch
Chapter 13: "Nec Pluribus Impar" The Defeat of Louis XIV
Chapter 14: No More Worlds to Conquer The Seven Years War
Chapter 15: The Reward Due to Valour Thomas Jefferson's Vision of America
Chapter 16: Vienna Gloriosa Mozart and. the Emperor Joseph II
Chapter 17: A Fall of Snow on Blossoming Leaves* The French Revolution
Chapter 18: With Pomp of Waters, Unwithstood Victory over Napoleon
Chapter 19: Freedom Rejected Immanuel Kant and the Reform of Prussia
Chapter 20: Above the Vaulted Sky The Industrialisation of England
Chapter 21: A Son of Liberty The Unification of Italy
Chapter 22: God's Private Secretary Florence Nightingale
Chapter 23: The Last, Best Hope of Earth The American Civil War
Chapter 24: The Liberty of the Nation Liberal England and Imperial Germany
Chapter 25: The Magic Mountain The Development of Science from the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 26: The Swift Iron Burning Bee The First World War
Chapter 27: "Beacons in the Night" Artists and Writers c1850-1945
Chapter 28: An Armistice for Twenty Years The Causes of the Second World War
Chapter 29: Victory over Tyranny The Second World War
Bibliography
Index
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