Tabla de Contenidos: “…The language of number -- The Amerindians and number -- Sumeria and Babylon -- Ancient Egypt -- Ancient China -- Ancient Greek fantasies about number -- Ancient Israel -- The Indian love-affair with number -- The Maya -- The Arabs: renaissance of number and science -- Francis Bacon and new directions -- John Napier: the rationalisation of arithmetic -- The Newtonian revolution: the marriage of craftsmanship and scholarship -- Babbage, the great unknown -- Boole and Boolean logic -- Machines which (or who?) …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…: "Homosexuality and "homophobia" in antiquity -- Inventing Sodom: Sodom and homosexual behavior in the Old and New Testaments -- A thousand years of Sodomy: defining sodomy, 500-1400 -- Lighting bonfires: sodomy and anxiety in the Renaissance -- Sodomy and the Enlightenment: unmasking and punishing sodomites, 1700-1860 -- Victorian sects: Uranians, inverts, perverts, and homosexuals, 1850-1910 -- New world homophobia: sodomy and persecution in…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Comédie mediévale et renaissance -- v. 2. Commedia dell'arte. Thé{circ}atre religieux. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Middle Ages -- pt. 3. The Renaissance -- pt. 4. The Baroque -- pt. 5. The pre-classical period -- pt. 6. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Laqueur -- Seeing culture in a room for a Renaissance prince / Randolph Starn.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The beginnings of architecture -- The Greek world -- The architecture of ancient India and Southeast Asia -- The traditional architecture of China and Japan -- The Roman world -- Early Christian and Byzantine architecture -- Islamic architecture -- Early medieval and romanesque architecture -- Gothic architecture -- Indigenous architecture in the Americas and Africa -- Renaissance architecture -- Baroque architecture -- Neoclassicism, romanticism, and the rococo -- Eclecticism, industrialization, and newness -- The twentieth century and modernism -- Modernisms in the mid- and late twentieth century.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Rhetoric : Old World and New -- Bernardino de Sahagún and the rhetoric of the other -- Diego Valadés : an ancient art in a New World -- Bartolomé de las Casas and José de Acosta : the other as audience -- El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega : renaissance rhetoric and native narrative -- José de Arriaga : extirpation and persuasion in the New World.…”