Humanities Volume 2 + Audio Cd Volume 2 7th Ed

VII. Science and Splendor: The Seventeenth Century 20. The Consolidation of Modernity Daily Lives: The Suffering of Ordinary People in the Thirty Years' War The Thirty Years' War and Its Aftermath The Scientific Revolution Economic Life The Age of Absolutism Reading Selections: René Descartes, from the Discourse on Method. Thomas Hobbes, from Leviathan. John Locke, from the Second Treatise of Civil Government. 21. The Baroque Style in Art and Literature Baroque in the Visual Arts Baroque Painting Baroque Architecture and Sculpture in Rome: Gian Lorenzo Bernini Literary Baroque Reading Selections: Saint Teresa of Ávila, from The Book of Her Life. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, A Philosophical Satire; Sonnet on a Portrait of Herself. Richard Crashaw, from The Flaming Heart. John Donne, from Holy Sonnets; from Elegies. 22. Two Masters of Baroque Music: Handel and Bach George Frederick Handel (1685-1759): Messiah Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Christmas Oratorio and Toccata and Fugue in D Minor 23. The Arts at the Court of Louis XIV Louis XIV (1638-1715) and Absolutism Versailles Daily Lives: Rituals at Versailles French Court Ballet and the Origins of Modern Theatrical Dancing French Neoclassical Drama Marie de la Vergne de La Fayette (1634-1693) and the Origins of the Modern Novel Reading Selections: Molière, Tartuffe. Marie de la Vergne de La Fayette, from The Princess of Clèves.