A historical survey of the western humanities in a single-volume text.
Adventures in the Human Spirit provides a balanced introduction to the major arts, philosophy, and religion. Appropriate for students with little background in the arts and humanities, this single-volume text approaches the humanities by focusing on principal events, styles, movements, and figures. The seventh edition engages students with new chapter-opening spreads, a refreshed color palette, and a clear pedagogical structure.
New author Margaret Manos maintains the late Philip E. Bishop’s approachability to understanding western humanities, bringing the past to life. The new edition continues to contain Bishop’s coverage of music, religion, literature, philosophy, and science.
MyArtsLab is an integral part of the Bishop program. Key learning applications include Closer Look tours, Art 21 and Studio Technique videos, and 360-degree architectural panoramas and simulations.
A better teaching and learning experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience–for you and your students. Here’s how:
- Personalize Learning – MyArtsLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program. It helps students prepare for class and instructor gauge individual and class performance.
- Improve Critical Thinking - Key Topics at the beginning of each chapter and critical thinking activities throughout help readers build critical thinking and study skills.
- Engage Students - Global Perspectives and Key Concept boxesprovide a wonderful engaging student experience.
- Support Instructors - Instructor resources make it easy to prepare for teaching your course. You can create a Customized Text or use our Instructor’s Manual, Electronic “MyTest” Test Bank or PowerPoint Presentation Slides.
This Book a la Carte Edition is an unbound, three-hole punched, loose-leaf version of the textbook and provides students the opportunity to personalized their book by incorporating their own notes and taking the portion of the book they need to class — all at a fraction of the bound book price.
Margaret Manos - After the passing of Philip E. Bishop, new author Margaret Manos has taken on the revisions of the seventh edition. She brings a wealth of experience having edited innumerable college textbooks in the arts and humanities during her 20 years as a freelance developmental editor.
In this Section:
1) Brief Table of Contents
2) Full Table of Contents
BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: An Invitation to Adventure
Chapter 2: The Ancient World
Chapter 3: Ancient Greece
Chapter 4: Ancient Rome
Chapter 5: Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Chapter 6: The Early Middle Ages
Chapter 7: The Late Middle Ages
Chapter 8: The Renaissance in Italy
Chapter 9: Reformation and Late Renaissance
Chapter 10: The Baroque
Chapter 11: The Enlightenment
Chapter 12: Revolution and Romanticism
Chapter 13: The Industrial Age
Chapter 14: Modernism
Chapter 15: The Contemporary Spirit
FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Chapter 1: An Invitation to Adventure
Creating a Sense of Self
The Visual Arts
The Performing Arts
The Literary Arts
An Invitation to Adventure
Chapter 2: The Ancient World
Mesopotamia
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Asia
Ancient America
Chapter 3: Ancient Greece
Early Greece
The Classical Period
Classical Greek Art
Greek Theater and Music
Classical Greek Philosophy
The Hellenistic Age
Chapter 4: Ancient Rome
The Drama of Roman History
The Art of an Empire
Roman Art and Daily Life
The Romans as Poets and Thinkers
Chapter 5: Monotheism: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
The Judaic Tradition
The Rise of Christianity
Philosophy: Classical and Christian
The Christian Empires: Rome and Byzantium
Christianity and the Arts
The Rise of Islam
Chapter 6: The Early Middle Ages
The Age of Charlemagne
Feudal Europe
Monasticism
The Romanesque Style
Early Medieval Music and Drama
The Medieval Philosopher
Chapter 7: The Late Middle Ages
The Gothic Awakening
The Gothic Style
Music and Theater in the Gothic Age
The New Learning
Court and City in the Late Middle Ages
The Late Gothic
Chapter 8: The Renaissance in Italy
The Renaissance Spirit in Italy
The Arts in Early Renaissance Italy
Renaissance Genius
The High Renaissance in Rome
Chapter 9: Reformation and Late Renaissance
The Reformation
The Rise of Northern Europe
Art and Humanism in Northern Europe
The Elizabethan Age
The Late Renaissance in Italy and Spain
Chapter 10: The Baroque
The Baroque in Italy
The Baroque in Spain
The Baroque in France
The Protestant Baroque
The New Science
The English Compromise
Chapter 11: The Enlightenment
The Rococo Style
The Enlightenment
The Bourgeois Response
Music in the Age of Enlightenment
The Neoclassical Style
The Age of Satire
Chapter 12: Revolution and Romanticism
Revolutions and Rights
The Romantic Hero
Music and Dance in the Romantic Age
Elements of Romanticism
Chapter 13: The Industrial Age
Materialism and Progress
Music and Modernity
Late Romantics and Early Moderns
The Dark Side of Progress
Chapter 14: Modernism
A Turbulent Century
Modernism in Art
The Modern Mind
Modernist Music and Architecture
Art and Politics
In the American Grain
Chapter 15: The Contemporary Spirit
The Age of Anxiety
Art and Architecture in Postwar America
The Sixties
The Postmodern
Global Awareness
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