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Early & Modern Humanities Research Guide

A research guide for the Early Humanities and Modern Humanities courses.

Early Humanities

Books on Architecture in the Early Humanities: 

  • Easter Island's Silent Sentinels: The Sculpture and Architecture of Rapa Nui by Kenneth Treister. 
    • Call Number: F3169 .T74 2013 
  • Baroque & Rococo Architecture & Decoration by Anthony Blunt
    • Call Number: NA590 .B37
  • Egyptian Architecture, Sculpture, Painting in Three Thousand Years by K. Lange and M. Hirmer
    • Call Number: N5351 .L313 1961 
  • The Orders of Architecture: Greek Roman and Renaissance by Arthur Stratton 
    • Call Number: NA2815 .S77 1986

Books on Art in the Early Humanities: 

  • Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins by John Gurche. 
    • Call Number: GN282 .G87 2013
  • The Hunter's Vision: The Prehistoric Art of Zimbabwe by Peter S. Garlake. 
    • Call Number:N5310.5.Z55 G36 1995
  • Stepping-Stones: A Journey Through the Ice Age Caves of the Dordogne by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon and Ian Tattersall
    • Call Number: N5310.5.F7 D47 2010
  • An Egyptian Bestiary: Animals in Life and Religion in the Land of the Pharaohs by Philippe Germond and Jacques Livet
    • Call Number: N7660 .G4313 2001
  • Egyptian Painting & Drawings in the British Museum by T.G.H. James
    • Call Number: ND75 .J3 1986
  • Classical Bronzes: The Art and Craft of Greek and Roman Statuary by Carol C. Mattusch
    • Call Number: NB135 .M38 1996
  • Early Christian Art by Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and Max Hirmer 
    • Call Number: N7832 .G6613 1968

Books on Culture in the Early Humanities: 

  • Christian Iconography: A Study of its Origins by Andre Grabar 
    • Call Number: N7832 .G6613 1968
  • Survival by Hunting: Prehistoric Human Predators and Animal Prey by George C. Frison 
    • Call Number: GN799 .H84 F75 2004
  • Early Civilizations: Prehistoric Times to 500 C.E. by Kate Kelly
    • Call Number: R135 .K45 2009
  • Architecture of First Societies: A Global Perspective by Mark Jarzombek
    • Call Number: GN799 .B88 J39 2013
  • ​​​​​​​A Companion to Ancient Egypt by Alan B. Lloyd
    • ​​​​​​​Call Number: DT60 .C6345 2010
  • ​​​​​​​Hieroglyphs: A Very Short Introduction by Penelope Wilson 
    • ​​​​​​​Call Number: PJ1097 .W54 2004 v113 
  • ​​​​​​​Egyptian Life by Miriam Stead ​​​​​​​
    • ​​​​​​​Call Number: DT61 .S83 1986
  • ​​​​​​​Handbook to Life in Prehistoric Europe by Jane McIntosh 
    • ​​​​​​​Call Number: D60 .M45 2006 ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Books on Literature in the Early Humanities: 

  • Voices from the Other World: Ancient Egyptian Tales by Najib Mahfuz
    • Call Number: PJ7846.A46 V613 2002
  • Egyptian Mythology by Veronica Ions
    • Call Number: BL2441.2 .I55 1983
  • The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature by M.C. Howatson and Sir Paul Harvey 
    • Call Number: PA31 .H69 1989
  • The Penguin Companion to Classical, Oriental, & African Literature by David Marshall Lang and Donald Reynolds Dudley
    • Call Number: PA31 .P4 1971
  • Holy Misogyny: Why the sex and gender conflicts in the early church still matter by April D. De Conick
    • Call Number: BR195.W6 D43 2011
  • A Companion to Latin Literature by S. J. Harrison 
    • Call Number: PA6004 .C66 2005
  • Roman Literary Culture: from Plautus to Macrobius by Elaine Fantham 
    • Call Number: PA6003 .F36 2013
  • Roman Literary Culture: from Cicero to Apuleius by Elaine Fantham 
    • Call Number: PA6003 .F36 1996

Modern Humanities

Books on Architecture in the Modern Humanities: 

  • Renaissance Architecture by Bates Lowry
    • Call Number: NA510 .L6
  • The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance by Jacob Burckhardt, Peter Murray, and J. C. Palmes 
    • Call Number: NA1115 .B813 1985
  • Renaissance and Baroque by Heinrich Wolfflin
    • Call Number: NA1115 .W613 1966
  • History of Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture throughout Europe by Creighton Gilbert
    • Call Number: N6370 .G45 1973b
  • Baroque & Rococo Architecture & Decoration by Anthony Blunt 
    • Call Number: NA590 .B37
  • Baroque & Rococo by Germain Bazin 
    • Call Number: N6410 .B363
  • A Global History of Architecture by Frank Ching, Mark Jarzombek, and Vikramaditya Prakash
    • Call Number: NA200 .C493 2007
  • Sources of Greek Revival Architecture by Dora Wiebenson 
    • Call Number: NA600 .W5 1969b
  • Victorian & Edwardian Town Halls by Colin Cunningham 
    • Call Number: NA4435.G7 C85 1981
  • Victorian Taste: some social aspects of architecture and industrial design, from 1820 - 1900 by John Edwards Gloag
    • Call Number: NA967 .G55

Books on Art in the Modern Humanities: 

  • Renaissance Art: A Very Short Introduction by Geraldine A. Johnson 
    • Call Number: N6370 .J64 2005 v 129
  • Art & Music in Venice: from the Renaissance to the Baroque by Hilliard T. Goldfarb
    • Call Number: NX552.V4 A78 2013
  • The Renaissance Artist at Work: from Pisano to Titian by Bruce Cole
    • Call Number: N6370 .C56 1983
  • The Age of Rococo by Michael Schwartz 
    • Call Number: N6425.R6 S3613
  • The Philosopher, the Priest, & the Painter: A Portrait of Descartes by Steven M. Nadler 
    • Call Number: B1873 .N34 2013
  • Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art & Design by T.J. Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, Alison Smith, Elizabeth Prettejohn, & Diane Waggoner
    • Call Number: N6767.5.P7 B37 2013
  • The ABCs of Victorian Antiques by Dan D'Imperio
    • Call Number: NK775 .D55

Books on Culture in the Modern Humanities: 

  • Better Left Unsaid: Victorian novels, Hays Code films, & the Benefits of Censorship by Nora Gilbert
    • Call Number: PR878.C45 G55 2012
  • Gender, Rhetoric, & Print Culture in French Renaissance Writing by Floyd Gray
    • Call Number: PQ239 .G73 2000
  • The Italian Renaissance: Culture & Society in Italy by Peter Burke
    • Call Number: DG445 .B85 1987
  • The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492 - 1800 by Robin Blackburn
    • Call Number: HT1048 .B56 1998
  • High Victorian Culture by David Morse
    • Call Number: PR461 .M64 1993
  • Victorian Sages and Cultural Discourse: Renegotiating Gender & Power by Thais E. Morgan
    • Call Number: PR464 .V53 1990

Books on Literature in the Modern Humanities: 

  • Literature & Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton 
    • Call Number: PQ239 .H26 2001 
  • Culture, Class, & Gender in the Victorian Novel: Gentlemen, Gents, & Working Women by Arlene Young 
    • Call Number: PR878.S6 Y68 1999
  • Reading the Bronte Body: Disease, Desire, & the Constraints of Culture by Beth E. Torgerson 
    • Call Number: PR4169 .T67 2005
  • The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval & Renaissance Literature by C.S. Lewis
    • Call Number: PN671 .L4
  • Premises & Motifs in Renaissance Thought & Literature by C.A. Patrides 
    • Call Number: DA320 .P34 1982
  • Unediting the Renaissance: Shakespeare, Marlow, & Milton by Leah S. Marcus
    • Call Number: PR418.T48 M37 1996 
  • The Cambridge History of Victorian Literature by Kate Flint 
    • Call Number: PR461 .C364 2012

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