Ideas: A History from Fire to Freud

popular piety ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

porcelain ref 1

portolano ref 1

positivism ref 1

pottery ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

pragmatism ref 1

priesthood ref 1, ref 2

printing:

block ref 1

with movable type ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

private life ref 1, ref 2

private property ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

progress ref 1

progressionism ref 1

prophets ref 1

prosa ref 1

Protestant ethic ref 1

Protestantism ref 1, ref 2

national dimension ref 1

and printing ref 1

proto-capitalism ref 1

Pseudepigrapha ref 1

psyche ref 1, ref 2

psychology ref 1, ref 2

public health ref 1, ref 2

publishing ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

quadrivium ref 1

quantification ref 1, ref 2

Quinisext Council ref 1

Qur’an ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

scholarship and study ref 1, ref 2

Rabula Codex ref 1

racial theories ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Ramadan ref 1

Ramayana ref 1

rationalism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

reading ref 1, ref 2

realism ref 1

reasonable man ref 1

Record of the Later Han, The ref 1

record-keeping ref 1

Reformation ref 1, ref 2

religion:

ancestor worship ref 1

cave ref 1

Classical ref 1, ref 2

comparative ref 1

core elements ref 1, ref 2

deism ref 1

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

emperor worship ref 1, ref 2

masculation of divinities ref 1

New World ref 1

rationalism in ref 1, ref 2

revealed ref 1

Shamanism ref 1

spread ref 1

text-based ref 1, ref 2

and urban life ref 1

religious concepts see also soul

afterlife ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

crucifixion ref 1

death and resurrection ref 1

divinity ref 1

good and evil ref 1

heaven/paradise ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

hell ref 1, ref 2

rationalistic

supernaturalism ref 1

rebirth ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

reincarnation ref 1, ref 2

repentance ref 1

resurrection ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

sacrifice ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

salvation ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

saviours/saviour gods ref 1, ref 2

supreme beings ref 1 (see also gods and goddesses)

Renaissance ref 1

res publica ref 1

retail markets ref 1

rhetoric ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

Rig Veda ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

Roma Aeterna ref 1

Roman Empire ref 1, ref 2

Roman law ref 1

Romanticism ref 1

and Indic studies ref 1

Rosetta Stone ref 1, ref 2

Sabbath ref 1

sacraments ref 1

sacred landscapes ref 1, ref 2

sacred stones ref 1

Sadducees ref 1

sailing/rafting ref 1, ref 2

samsara ref 1, ref 2

sasanas ref 1

Sayings of Jesus, The ref 1

scepticism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5

growth ref 1

in Islamic thought ref 1

modern ref 1

Renaissance ref 1

scholars ref 1

scholarship ref 1 see also centres of learning

Biblical ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

custodial ref 1

Islamic ref 1

and Judaism ref 1

textual criticism ref 1

scholasticism ref 1, ref 2

scholia ref 1, ref 2

schools ref 1

Babylonian ref 1

Christian ref 1, ref 2

Classical ref 1

Dark Ages ref 1

Islamic ref 1

monastic ref 1

science and technology ref 1

science ref 1, ref 2

beginnings ref 1

in China ref 1

Dark Ages ref 1

indeterminacy ref 1

Native American ref 1

philosophy of ref 1

popularisation ref 1

scientific method ref 1

applied to society ref 1

Scientific Revolution achievements ref 1

background ref 1

philosophical underpinning ref 1

subordination of theology ref 1

Scottish Enlightenment ref 1

scribes ref 1, ref 2

scripts see also alphabets

Chinese ref 1, ref 2illus.

cuneiform ref 1, ref 2, ref 3illus., ref 1illus.

deciphering ancient ref 1

Devanagari ref 1

early Renaissance ref 1

Egyptian hieroglyphics ref 1

Gupta Brahmi ref 1

Linear A and B ref 1

miniscule ref 1

Old European ref 1, ref 2illus.

runes ref 1

uncial ref 1

sea power ref 1

secularism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

in America ref 1

in the ancient world ref 1

in art ref 1

and the new universities ref 1

patronage of the arts ref 1

Renaissance ref 1

social ref 1

sedentism ref 1

self:

capacity for development ref 1

consciousness of ref 1, ref 2

destruction (suicide) ref 1

hidden dimension ref 1

Marxist ref 1

Renaissance ref 1

sense of ref 1, ref 2

unconscious ref 1

self-criticism ref 1

self-denial ref 1

self-esteem ref 1

self-expression ref 1

autobiography ref 1

in the Middle Ages ref 1

self-portraiture ref 1

self-reliance ref 1

senatus consultum ref 1

settlements ref 1, ref 2

Seven Golden Odes, The; ‘Seven Mu’Allaqat’ ref 1

seven liberal arts ref 1

shamanism ref 1

shelter ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

Siddhanta (Sindhind) ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

silent reading ref 1, ref 2

Silk Road ref 1n, ref 2

slavery ref 1

social conscience ref 1

social consciousness ref 1

social contracts ref 1, ref 2

social Darwinism ref 1, ref 2

social organisation ref 1, ref 2

Christian ref 1, ref 2

commercial ref 1

communities ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

cooperation ref 1

distinctions ref 1

feudalism ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

hierarchies ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

and language ref 1

and urban life ref 1

social revolution ref 1

social sciences ref 1

sociology ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6, ref 7

Socratic method ref 1

solar year ref 1

sophism ref 1

soul ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

in Arab philosophy ref 1

Classical ref 1