{"product_id":"the-golden-thread-a-history-of-the-western-tradition-volume-i-the-ancient-world-and-christendom-hardcover","title":"The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJames Hankins\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAllen C. Guelzo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA sweeping, resource-rich history of the ancient world and Christendom--designed for students and lifelong learners alike, and faithful to the enduring legacy of the Western tradition. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is Volume I of a two-part series tracing the story of Western civilization from antiquity to the modern age.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Western Tradition from Antiquity to 1500\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere do the threads that form the Western tradition originate, and how were they woven together over the two and a half millennia before 1500? What are the sources of our modern ideas about science, freedom, equality, law, good government, and virtue? These are the questions explored in \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Thread, Volume I: The Ancient World and Christendom\u003c\/i\u003e, written by James Hankins.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story begins with the seminal culture of the classical Greeks and moves through the Hellenization of the east following the conquests of Alexander the Great. Hankins then narrates the rise and dominance of Rome and the fusion of Greco-Roman and Judea-Christian cultures in the Christian empire of the fourth century AD. The volume follows the history of Christendom from the fall of the Western Roman Empire, charts its centuries-long rivalry with the Islamic world, and culminates in the emergence of European civilization in the Middle Age and Renaissance. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume I Examines how the foundations were laid for the West's political and economic dominance in the modern era, illuminating the deep roots of the ideas, arts, and institutions that continue to shape our world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Golden Thread \u003ci\u003eis a two-volume history of the Western tradition. Volume I is authored by James Hankins; Volume II, covering the modern and contemporary West, is authored by Allen C. Guelzo.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Thread\u003c\/i\u003e series features: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Vision of Two Authors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWritten by two of the most distinguished historians of our time.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Thread\u003c\/i\u003e speaks in coherent, singular voices. Each volume is authored by an eminent individual writing in narrative form and interpretive tone, and animated by the conviction that knowledge across disciplines is best pursued through stories that are rich in insight, humanity, and meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Cultural Inheritance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNearly 1000 curated images--sculptures, paintings, and artifacts--from the vaults of the West's finest cultural institutions.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReaders are not merely told what happened, but shown what was created--page after page alive with the rich architecture, sculpture, music, and painting that gave visible form to the West's most enduring aspirations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiving Voices from the Distant Past\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeatures close to 200 foundational primary source texts drawn from every era.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWoven through the chapters are the voices that once commanded nations, composed poems and hymns, and drafted creeds. These are not summaries or paraphrases--they are the words themselves, as they were first spoken, sung, and inscribed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVisual Histories of the World\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnriched by over 150 bespoke maps, each a visual key to the unfolding story of the West.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Golden Thread\u003c\/i\u003e does more than locate events--it reconstructs the shifting boundaries of thought, faith, empire, and imagination that defined how men and women once pictured the world and their place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAMES HANKINS\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Harvard University, where he teaches Western intellectual history, the history of the classical tradition, and the Italian Renaissance. His prize-winning book, \u003ci\u003eVirtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Ital\u003c\/i\u003ey, was published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University in November 2019.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eALLEN C. GUELZO\u003c\/b\u003e is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the bestselling author, most recently, of \u003ci\u003eOur Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy and the American Experiment\u003c\/i\u003e. 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