15 pinnacles : history's glorious golden ages by Gaines, Thomas A., 1923- instant download

15 pinnacles : history's glorious golden ages by Gaines, Thomas A., 1923- instant download

xii, 192 pages : 23 cm, \" ... a Golden Age is the coming together of the forces of culture, climate and fortune, which produce, for an historic blink of the eye, a thrust of creativity that measures and influences man's accomplishments henceforth. It is an intense flowering of civilization in the visual and performing arts, literature, philosophy, religion, science, exploration, industry, this and that.\"--Page ix - Introduction, Introduction -- Mesopotamia -- Egypt's New Kingdom -- The Greek moment -- Roman Empire -- The Gupta Age: India, fourth to sixth century -- The Byzantine Empire: a sixth century high -- The Moors -- Sung China -- Middle Ages -- Elizabethan England -- Italian Renaissance -- Baroque -- The reluctant golden age: Low countries in the 17th century -- The muscial muse of Middle Europe -- Nationalism in the arts: Russia in the 19th century -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index, Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index