Three Golden Ages

Alf J. Mapp

doi:10.5771/9781461735984

Summary

In this intriguing book, best-selling author Alf Mapp, Jr. explores three periods in Western history that exploded with creativity: Elizabethan England, Renaissance Florence, and America's founding. What enabled these societies to make staggering jumps in scientific knowledge, develop new political structures, or create timeless works of art?

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 1998
ISBN-Print: 978-1-56833-113-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4617-3598-4
Publisher: Madison Books, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 657
Product type: Book Titles

1. Table of Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
1. 1. The Persistent Question No access
2. 2. The Bow and the Lyre No access
3. 3. Legs and Tails No access
1. 4. Waking the Dead No access
2. 5. Lorenzo the Magnificent No access
3. 6. Saints, Sinners, and Seers No access
4. 7. Gold Coins and a Golden Age No access
5. 8. Bonfire of the Vanities No access
6. 9. Cycle of Fire No access
7. 10. Age of Genius No access
8. 11. Why the Renaissance Left Home No access
1. 12. Saints and Sinners-English Style No access
2. 13. Gloriana No access
3. 14. "All Knowledge for My Province" No access
4. 15. The Grand Design No access
5. 16. The Great Magician No access
6. 17. Benign Contagion No access
7. 18. Explorers All No access
1. 19. "Westward the Course" No access
2. 20. "Where None Before Hath Stood" No access
3. 21. Where They Were in 1760 No access
4. 22. "Before We Were the Land's" No access
5. 23. The Virginia Path No access
6. 24. Royal Road to Learning No access
7. 25. "Aristocracy with the Doors Open" No access
8. 26. Puritan Commonwealth No access
9. 27. The Cloud-Veiled Sun No access
10. 28. Science Enslaved No access
11. 29. The Philadelphia Wizard No access
12. 30. "The Great Little Madison" No access
13. 31. The Other James No access
14. 32. Heroic Hypochondriac No access
15. 33. The Sun on the President's Chair No access
16. 34. "The Most Remarkable Work" No access
17. 35. A Genius for Government No access
18. 36. Was Washington Ignorant? No access
19. 37. The Philosopher-King and the New Republic No access
20. 38. Homegrown Solomon No access
21. 39. From James to James No access
22. 40. Too Much Credit? No access
23. 41. Finding Native Muses No access
24. 42. Bold Brushes No access
25. 43. Tinkerers and Titans No access
26. 44. Audacious Imaginations No access
27. 45. Music-Frozen and Otherwise No access
28. 46. Summing Up the American Case No access
1. 47. Six Keys No access
2. 48. Salvation through Adventure No access
Notes No access Pages 575 - 604
Bibliography No access Pages 605 - 632
Index No access Pages 633 - 656
About the Author No access Pages 657 - 657