Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud

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.

Church Fathers ref 1, ref 2

circulation of the blood ref 1

cities ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

decline ref 1, ref 2

earliest ref 1

factory ref 1

modernist ref 1

citizenship ref 1

city state (polis) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

civic humanism ref 1

civil service examinations ref 1

civil society ref 1

civilisation ref 1, ref 2

class (social) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

Classical ref 1

Classical texts see also books; texts

lost works ref 1

preservation and transmission ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

classification:

archaeological ref 1

of books ref 1

of the natural world ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

clocks ref 1, ref 2

clothing ref 1, ref 2

colonialism ref 1

commerce ref 1

commodification ref 1

Compasso da Navigare ref 1

Confucianism ref 1

Neo-Confucianism ref 1

conquest of cold ref 1

conscience ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

consciousness ref 1, ref 2

conspicuous consumption ref 1

consubstantiation ref 1

control of knowledge ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

cooking ref 1, ref 2

copyright ref 1

corporate knowledge ref 1

cosmology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7, ref 8, ref 9

Council of Trent (1545) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

‘creative explosion’ ref 1

crusades ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

cult of the Virgin ref 1, ref 2

cultural evolution ref 1, ref 2

cultural nationalism ref 1

Dark Ages ref 1

Darwinism ref 1

dating:

earth ref 1

systems ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

Dead Sea Scrolls ref 1

death, concepts of ref 1, ref 2

decimal system ref 1, ref 2

decoration and ornamentation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

deductive reasoning ref 1

democracy ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

in America ref 1

Athenian ref 1, ref 2

representative ref 1

Democracy in America ref 1

determinism ref 1, ref 2

dictionaries ref 1, ref 2

divination and prophecy ref 1, ref 2

domestication of plants and animals ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

doubt ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

drama ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Easter ref 1, ref 2

economic organisation ref 1, ref 2

economics ref 1

and Calvinism ref 1, ref 2

classical ref 1

ecstasies and trances ref 1

Edicts, The ref 1

Edinburgh New Town ref 1

education:

child-centred ref 1

Classical ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

Dark Ages ref 1

German ref 1

humanist ref 1, ref 2

Islamic ref 1, ref 2

liberal arts ref 1, ref 2

purpose ref 1

Egyptology ref 1

elective oligarchy ref 1

electricity ref 1

empiricism ref 1, ref 2

encyclopaedias and summae ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

encyclopaedists ref 1

Éncyclopédie ref 1

English Civil War ref 1

Enlightenment ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

man’s view of himself ref 1

reaction against ref 1

realisation of aims ref 1