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Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. New York Oxford OX FOR D U N I V ER SI T Y PR E SS Her serene, upward gaze attests to a society whose values had attained their fullest expression during the Pax Romana.Ĭultures of the West A History Volume 1: To 1750 Third Edition During this period, wealthy, cultured women like Matidia Minor fashioned their hair into elaborate coiffures that resembled honeycombs. From an aristocratic family, and related to several emperors, including Trajan (r. His bust of the Roman lady Matidia Minor was made by an unknown sculptor sometime around 120 ce. International Trade in a Mercantilist Ageĭomesticating Dynamism: Regulating CultureĮngland’s Separate Path: The Rise of Constitutional MonarchyĪppendix: Table of Contents for Sources for Cultures of the West Self-Indulgence with a Purpose: The Example of Versailles New Centers of Intellectual and Cultural Lifeġ5: From Westphalia to Paris: Regimes Old and New What about the Catholic and Orthodox Eastįrom the Peace of Augsburg to the Edict of Nantes: The French Wars of Religion “Age of Ignorance”: The Arabian Backgroundġ0: Reform and Renewal in the Greater WestĮrasmus: Humanist Scholar and Social Critic The Rise of “New Rome”: The Byzantine Empire Philosophical Foundations: Stoicism and NeoplatonismĪ Christian Emperor and a Christian Church Height of the Pax Romana: The “Five Good Emperorsħ: The Rise of Christianity in a Roman World The Rise of Macedonia and the Conquests of Alexander the Great The Excluded: Women, Children, and Slaves The Search for Mythic Ancestors in Archaic Age GreeceĬolonists, Hoplites, and the Path to Citizenship Mesopotamian Religion: Heaven, the Great Above, the Great BelowĮgyptian Religion: The Kingdom of the Deadģ: The Ancient Greeks: From Arrival to Glory Mesopotamian Life: Farms and Cities, Writing and Numbers 1: Water and Soil, Stone and Metal: The First CivilizationsĪncient Mesopotamia and the Emergence of Civilization
