Profiling milestones and movements in the arts, literature, music and religion from a specific period, each volume in this set helps students and researchers understand the various disciplines of the humanities in relation to each other, as well as to history and culture. An overview of the period and a chronology of major world events begin each volume. Nine chapters follow covering the major branches of the humanities: architecture and design, dance, fashion, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theater and visual arts. Chapters begin with a chronology of major events within the discipline followed by articles covering the movements, schools of thought and masterworks that characterize the discipline during the era and biographical profiles of pioneers, masters and other prominent figures in the field. Chapters also include significant primary documents from the period, including quotations, excerpts from artists about their work and/or commentaries/criticism published during the period, and a list of general references for further information.
Über den Autor James (Hrsg.) Evans
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James Evans is the Max Palevsky Professor of History and Civilization in Sociology and director of Knowledge Lab at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as faculty director of the program in computational social science. He holds an external professorship at the Santa Fe Institute and is the author of numerous articles in Science, Nature, and PNAS. Adrian Johns is the Allan Grant Maclear Professor of History at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Nature of the Book: Print and Knowledge in the Making, Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars from Gutenberg to Gates, and, most recently, The Science of Reading: Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America, all three also published by the University of Chicago Press.
