Philosophical Letters Concerning the English ref 1
Wagner, Richard ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Ring, The ref 1
Waldo, Peter ref 1
Wang Huan-ce ref 1
Wang Mang, Emperor ref 1
Watt, James ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Webb, Walter Prescott: Great Frontier, The (1953) ref 1, ref 2
Weber, Carl Maria von ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Weber, Max ref 1
Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904) ref 1
Webster, Noah ref 1
Weiss, Johannes: Jesus’ proclamation of the Kingdom of God (1971) ref 1
West, M. L.: East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth, The (1997) ref 1
Whiston, William ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Wilkins, Charles ref 1, ref 2
Wilkinson, Endymion ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Williams, Raymond ref 1
Willis, Thomas ref 1
Anatomy of the Brain and Nerves, The (1664) ref 1
Wilson, A. N. ref 1, ref 2
Wittkower, Rudolf ref 1, ref 2
Woolley, Leonard ref 1, ref 2
Wordsworth, William ref 1
Wren, Christopher ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Wycliffe, John ref 1
Xuan Zang ref 1
In the Footsteps of the Buddha ref 1
Yang Xiong: Supreme Mystery, The ref 1
Yungang (China) ref 1
Zeno ref 1, ref 2
Zheng Yi ref 1, ref 2
Zhi Yi: Lotus of the True Law ref 1
Zhou Dunyi ref 1, ref 2
Zhou Youguang ref 1, ref 2
Zhoukoudien (China) ref 1
Zhu Xi ref 1, ref 2
Dao Tong ref 1
Four Books, The ref 1
Zhu Zaiyu: Lu xue jing yi (Essence of Music) ref 1
Zoroaster/Zarathustra ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
IDEAS
abstraction ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
academic freedom ref 1
administration ref 1, ref 2
aesthetics ref 1
agriculture ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
aids to learning:
accuracy ref 1
alphabetisation ref 1
argument/dispute ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
bibliographies ref 1
dictionaries ref 1, ref 2
Socratic method ref 1
tables of contents ref 1
alienation ref 1
alphabets ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 illus., ref 1 see also scripts
America:
founding ref 1, ref 2
impact of discovery ref 1
realisation of Enlightenment aims ref 1
at time of discovery ref 1
anatomy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Ancient Greece ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
Ancient Rome ref 1, ref 2
anthropology ref 1
anti-modernism ref 1
antiquarianism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
anti-Semitism ref 1
archaeology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
architecture:
Buddhist ref 1, ref 2
Christian ref 1, ref 2
Classical ref 1
Hindu ref 1
Indian ref 1, ref 2
monumental ref 1
Arianism ref 1
art:
allegorical ref 1
Buddhist ref 1
Byzantine ref 1
cave ref 1, ref 2, ref 3illus.
changing idea ref 1
Chinese ref 1
Christian ref 1, ref 2
Classical ref 1, ref 2
earliest ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
garden design ref 1
Islamic calligraphy ref 1
modernist ref 1
Native American ref 1
naturalistic ref 1, ref 2
portraits ref 1
Renaissance ref 1
Romantic ref 1
sculpture ref 1, ref 2
status ref 1
Artificial Memory Systems ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4illus., ref 1, ref 2, ref 3 see also writing
artist:
as genius ref 1, ref 2
status ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
asceticism ref 1
Asiatic Society (Bengal) ref 1, ref 2
astrology ref 1, ref 2
astronomy ref 1
Babylonian ref 1
heliocentrism ref 1
Hellenistic ref 1
observatories ref 1
atheism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
atlases ref 1
atomic theory ref 1
atomism ref 1, ref 2
authority ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4 see also Catholic Church, challenges to authority
autobiography ref 1
Axial Age ref 1, ref 2
Aztecs ref 1
barbarians ref 1
beauty ref 1, ref 2
Benedictines ref 1, ref 2
Bhagavad Gita ref 1
Bible ref 1, ref 2
and archaeology ref 1
New Testament ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Old Testament (Hebrew scriptures) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Pentateuch ref 1, ref 2
scholarship ref 1
Septuagint ref 1
textual criticism ref 1
widened access ref 1
biological evolution ref 1, ref 2 see also evolution
brain growth ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
capacity for language ref 1, ref 2
‘creative explosion’ ref 1
uniformitarianism ref 1
bipedalism ref 1
Black Death ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
book production:
in China ref 1
copying ref 1
Dark Ages ref 1
illustration ref 1
pecia system ref 1
printing ref 1
scriptoria ref 1
books see also canonical works; Classical texts; texts
codex/codices ref 1, ref 2
critical editions ref 1
and religion ref 1, ref 2
scrolls (rotuli) ref 1, ref 2
selling ref 1, ref 2
botany ref 1, ref 2
bribery ref 1
Buddhism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Chinese ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
in India ref 1
spread ref 1, ref 2
burial and funerary rites ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
in chambers ref 1
collective ref 1
early ref 1, ref 2
grave goods ref 1, ref 2
human sacrifice ref 1
business and commercial practices ref 1
banks and banking ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
book-keeping and accounting ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
international ref 1
teaching of ref 1
calculus ref 1
calendars ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
caliphate ref 1, ref 2
Calvinism ref 1
cannibalism ref 1
canon law ref 1, ref 2
canonical works ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
capital formation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
capitalism ref 1, ref 2
Catholic Church:
challenges to authority ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5
College of Cardinals ref 1
councils ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9, ref 10
and the discovery of America ref 1
iconoclast controversy ref 1
need for reform ref 1, ref 2
papal authority ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7
sacred hierarchy ref 1
split ref 1
Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation) ref 1, ref 2
cave art ref 1, ref 2, ref 3illus.
Celts ref 1
censorship ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
centres of learning ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5 see also scholarship
challenges to authority ref 1, ref 2 see also Catholic Church, challenges to authority
anticlericalism ref 1
atheism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
iconoclasm ref 1
popular sentiment ref 1
chemistry ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
child labour ref 1
childhood ref 1
Christendom ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
Christianity:
adoption of Latin ref 1
apostolic succession ref 1, ref 2
and Aristotle ref 1
cults ref 1, ref 2
development ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6
free will ref 1
and the Germanic peoples ref 1
missioning ref 1, ref 2
purgatory ref 1
sacraments ref 1
sin ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4
Trinity ref 1
Christmas Day ref 1, ref 2, ref 3
chronology of cognitive skills ref 1illus.