Discovering the Western past. A look at the evidence, Volume I: To 1715
M. Wiesner, J. Ruff, W. Wheeler
ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1989
Paperback, ix+309p., form. 19,2 x 23,4 cm
New

Contents: The Need for Water in Ancient Societies - The Ideal and the Reality of Classical Athens - The Achievements of Augustus - The Transformation of Christianity - The Domesday Book and Medieval Statistics - Symbols and Ceremonies of Feudal Power - Life at a Medieval University - The "Commercial Revolution" - Craft Guilds: Economic Change and Social Conflict - Lay Piety and Heresy in the Late Middle Ages - The Renaissance Man and Woman - The Spread of the Reformation - The Motivations for Exploration - Staging Absolutism