The Age of Faith, Part IV, A History of Medieval Civilization--Christian, Islamic, and Judaic--from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325

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The Fourth Volume in The Story of Civilization!

The Age of Faith, Part IV, A History of Medieval Civilization--Christian, Islamic, and Judaic--from Constantine to Dante: A.D. 325 - 1300
Will Durant
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The Fourth Volume in The Story of Civilization! .......2004-08-30

In this, the fourth volume in the Story of Civilization, Dr. Will & Ariel Durant have compiled thousands of details to create a smooth flowing story covering one-thousand years of Christian, Islamic, and Jewish civilization.

At nearly 1100 pages in length, the reader will see: The early Christian ascetics and martyrs such as Simeon Stylites, who sat atop a sixty-foot high pillar for thirty years, exposed to rain, sun, and snow, and rejoiced as worms ate his rotting flesh. Saint Augustine. The Great Kings such as Charlemagne, William, and Richard "the Lion-Hearted." The Popes. The Prophet Mohammed. The knights and pirates of the Crusades. The Age of Romance, Chivalry, and courtly love in literature. The Italian poet Dante, and the transition to the Renaissance. Plus more including plates and maps.

Although written to stand alone or in the series, this volume will most likely be read by more serious students of history, however, the Durants have created a prose which is very easy to read and understand. In short, this book is for everyone interested in history, both professional and layperson alike! I rate this book as five stars as the Durant's authoritative historical Magnum Opus!

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Highly Biased Perspective
An intellectual tour-de-force!!
Was it solely the age of faith?
Dante...and so much more...

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Highly Biased Perspective.......2003-11-15

Will Durant uses history as a vehicle for espousing his materialistic philosophy. He seems to have never met a skeptic, cynic, or doubter that he didn't like. In his view of Islam, Judaism, and Christanity, it appears to me his favorite is Islam. His least favorite is Christianity. He operates from the assumption that people created their own religions and borrowed what they liked or disliked based on such variables as the climate in which they lived. Pretty superficial reasoning I'd say.

His interpretive commentaries are largely mumbo jumbo. He rambles as if he is a wise man who knows truth because he is a materialist and all these ancient people were blinded because they believed in things beyond the physical realm. If one were to infer an underlying tone to his book, it could be, "if you're really intellectual like me, you're a cynic who doesn't believe in any of this religious stuff." That the framework from which his analyses are made.

With that established the book has some value. It provides detail of the various personalities and issues covered. Some key historical figures are described at length. Durant is a gifted storyteller, but as a reviewer I'm suspicious here. It seems he's more interested in entertaining than conveying facts at times. That's why I would seek a verifying source if I really had doubts about something controversial he says occurred.

Read and compare. This is another voice in the human chorus. Just keep in mind he's coming from his worldview, which he doesn't even attempt to hide. Take it for what it's worth, one man's spin on history.

An intellectual tour-de-force!!.......2002-06-25

Durant is a brilliant macrohistorian. He gives a broad, but concise picture of various facets of historical development-economic, political, cultural, religious and scientific-in the course of the Age of Faith. This is a sweeping grand narrative of one thousand years of a burgeoning Christian and Islamic civilization. Many historians have a peculiar aversion to the middle ages, because it is perceived as an intellectually unenlightened era. These historians typically take a cue from Edward Gibbon and loathe the fall of Rome perpetually until they reach the Renaissance. Durant, however, demonstrates evenhandedness in chronicling the development of Western Civilization in the middle ages and its interaction with the Oriental civilizations of Byzantium and Islam. Durant shows the centuries of interactions between Popes and kings, nobles and peasant, and really gives the reader a feel for the cultural, economic and societal developments in Christendom. Durant tells of Justinian who strove to keep Rome intact and summarily failed. Instead of wailing over the remains of Pax Romana like some historians, Durant shifts to offering a perceptively detailed history of Byzantium and the rising `barbarian' kingdoms of the Franks, Visigoths and Goths. He chronicles the growth of the Christian church with intriguing biographical sketches of church fathers such as St. Augustine, St. Benedict and St. Francis. His account of the Crusades is both remarkable and informative and too me it makes this book invaluable. The Venetian treachery against Constantinople is well detailed. Durant sketches the development of Britannia from its Celtic beginnings to the birth of England and the pivotal battle at Hastings in 1066, which forever shaped the realm and the course of history. His account of the Norsemen-Normans, Danes, Vikings and Icelanders-is remarkably interesting. Durant paves the way for the transition to Renaissance with his chapters dealing with Epistemology, Christian Science, the Christian theologian and philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas and the poet Dante. He shows that the medieval times were actually the bedrock for the Renaissance of classical culture. It was the pious monks of Christendom and the sages of Islam that preserved the classics of hollowed antiquity. It is my estimation that no serious student history can be without Durant's Story of Civilization series. Likewise, anyone interested in the middle ages should get a copy of the Age of Faith. If you're interested in the middle ages, I also recommend books by John Julius Norwich.

Was it solely the age of faith?.......2002-05-08

History and its study has always been a daunting task, both in terms of the length of time it takes a reader to assimilate the knowledge of a particular period of history, and also the painstaking attention to detail that the historian must engage in. The gravitational pull on this book is appreciable, as is the case for most books on history, but for the person curious about the events of 300-1300, events that still have a major influence on the present, it is well worth the time needed for its perusual. The authors are sometimes cynical in their appraisal of these times, and one can detect a measure of hostility towards religion in their writing, but their style of writing is both interesting and at times very entertaining, and it certainly keeps the readers attention.

One can disagree of course in labeling a particular period in history as "The Dark Ages" solely on the basis of a personal belief that the ideas of that time do not meet certain criteria of "enlightment". The authors do label the period AD 566 - 1095 as the Dark Ages, but they do so not only from the standpoint of the intellectual climate of the time, but also from an economic one. That progress was not occurring during that time at a rate that it was capable of, is the message implicitly given by the authors.

The book takes on through a time period that saw the rise of figures whose ideas are held by most of today's populations. The rapid rise of Islam via the personage of Mohammed, the struggles of the Jewish people, and the rise of the Holy Roman Empire are brilliantly detailed by the authors. The Koran, the Talmud, and the Bible all coexisted, the beliefs expressed in these books had considerable overlap, and the tension between them has endured till now. One should not however conclude that this tension has always been a detriment to humankind. Most of the readers of these books, a considerable majority in fact, have never engaged in violence or deliberate conflict. The wars brought about by a small minority, who claim special status in their interpretation of the contents of these books, should not lead to a hasty conclusion that the rare perturbations that wars make to history are in fact all of history itself.

All peoples in the present time owe much to the efforts of those in the period discussed in the book. Modern science has its roots of course in ancient Greece, but it took Islamic scholars, with their efforts to translate the works of the Greeks, particularly Aristotle, to set the stage for science. The authors introduce us to Averroes, the 12 century "Stagrite" and scholar; to Muhammed ibn Musa of the 8th century, one of the great mathematicians of his time , giving us algebra, the latter term coined by the Arabs; to Abu Hanifa, a 9th century botanist/pharmacologist, and to many other Arabic/Islamic seekers and purveyors of wisdom. An entire chapter is devoted to the brilliant Christian scholar/philosopher/rationalist Abelard, who set the stage for the Scholastic philosophy of Lombard and Thomas Aquinas. The reader also is introduced to the Jewish scholar Maimonides, his philosophy and his "Glossary on Drugs". Clearly, the age of faith had its share of brilliance.

The age of faith should thus be seen as an age of discovery as well as prayer. Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scholars were laying the foundations of knowledge as well as propagating their faith. This superposition of faith and reason continues in our day, and shows no sign of being abated. In this regard, this book is almost like a chronicle of our own time. We now have computers, genetic engineering, robotics, and space travel; but we also have churches, synagogues, tabernacles, temples, and mosques. The history of our own time, and that described in this book, could thus be viewed as a mere change of names and dates. The goals in both time periods are the same: the unrelenting quest for new knowledge and the reaching out for something intangible and beyond ourselves.

Dante...and so much more..........2002-03-17

If you have never had the pleasure -- and good
fortune -- to discover Will Durant and this series
on THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION, then prepare yourself
for insight, enrichment, and cultural nurturing.
Few sources concerning history and culture, with
a strongly philosophical underpinning, can enlighten
as does this series.
Each volume in the series is subdivided into
a number of BOOKS, and each of these subdivisions
is further subdivided into Chapters of various
sections. But the flow, interest, and detail are
on-going, clear, and stimulating. These are volumes
not only for scholars but also for general readers
yearning -- longing -- to understand the flow and
interactions of history, culture, and thought.

This volume is number 4 in the series. The Books
into which it is subdivided are: "The Byzantine
Zenith: A.D. 325-565" -- "Islamic Civilization:
A.D. 569-1258" -- "Judaic Civilization: A.D. 135-
1300" -- "The Dark Ages: A.D. 566-1095" -- "The
Climax of Christianity: A.D. 1095-1300".
This volume opens with the Chapter on "Julian
the Apostate" and closes with a lengthy chapter
on "Dante: 1265-1321." That is certainly an
interesting span, not only in time, but in
personality and focus, as well.
The Chapter (38) leading into the Chapter on
Dante (39) is a wondrous, interesting presentation
of "The Age of [Medieval] Romance: 1100-1300."
It includes sections titled: The Latin Revival;
Wine, Women, and Song; The Rebirth of Drama;
Epics and Sagas; The Troubadours; The Minnesingers;
The Romances; The Satirical Reaction. There are
excellent excerpts from some of the types, as
well as intriguing discussion of how the types
evolved, interacted, and interfused. Here is
an example of the presentation from "The Romances":
"But in romance the middle class had already
captured the field. As aristocratic troubadours
and TROVATORI wrote delicate lyrics for the
ladies of sourther France and Italy, so in
northern France the poets of humble birth --
known to the French as trouveres, or inventors --
brightened the evenings of the middle and upper
classes with poetic tales of love and war.
The typical compositions of trhe trouveres
were the BALLADE, the LAI, the CHANSON DE GESTE,
and the ROMAN."

Durant proceeds to talk about Marie de France
and gives one of her entire lyrics in the text.
He then goes on to discuss the CHANSONS DE GESTE
and their successors, the ROMAN (or Romances).
There are excellent sections on the writers
Walther von der Vogelweide, Chretien de Troyes,
Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried of Strasbourg,
and Hartmann von Aue. This chapter serves as a
excellent, rich, historical and cultural background
for the chapter on Dante which follows.
The chapter on Dante is divided into the sections:
The Italian Troubadours; Dante and Beatrice; The
Poet in Politics; and a final full and rich section
on THE DIVINE COMEDY, itself. One excerpt from the
text cannot be passed by, without quotation:
"In the epic of Dante's life, his exile was
his hell, his studies and his writings were
his purgation, his hope and love were his
redemption and his only bliss. Virgil, who
guides Dante through hell and purgatory stands
for knowledge, reason, wisdom, which can lead
us TO the portals of happiness; only faith
and love can lead us IN."

Wondrous, incredible, satisfying...

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The Age of Faith, a History of Medieval Civilization - Christian, Islamic, and Judaic - from Constantine to Dante: A. D. 325-1300, the Story of Civilization: Part IV
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Ostebee and Zorn's approach applies reform principles to a rigorous calculus text. Conceptual understanding is the main goal of the text, and looking at mathematics from many representations (graphical, symbolic, numerical) is the main strategy for achieving this type of understanding. The key strengths of the text include combining symbolic manipulation with graphical and numerical representation, exercises of a varied nature and difficulty, and explanations written to be understandable to student readers.

A student-friendly and approachable tone, numerous examples, critical-thinking questions, and supportive details and commentary help students successfully read and use the text.
Representation of mathematical concepts through a variety of viewpoints supports different learning styles. Students see the math worked out through multiple representations—graphically, numerically, and symbolically—to enhance conceptual understanding.
Proofs presented at point of use contribute significantly to helping students understand rigorous calculus concepts and develop analytic skills.
Varied exercise sets offer instructors more options for creating homework assignments. Basic Exercises, which are straightforward and focus on a single idea, help students build basic skills.
Further Exercises are a little more ambitious and may require the synthesis of several ideas, a deeper or more sophisticated understanding of basic concepts, or the use of a computer algebra system such as Maple or Mathematica. These are available for professors to assign when they would like to challenge their students and incorporate technology into their course.
Answers to Select Exercises can be found in the back of the text, enabling students to get immediate feedback and assess their understanding of the material.
Interludes are brief project-oriented expositions, with related exercises, that extend the concepts presented in the chapter. Professors have the opportunity to include these topics found at the end of the chapter as independent work, group work, or as a classroom activity. The Interludes include theoretical problems and proofs intended to enhance student understanding of the key calculus concepts.

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Be careful which version of the book you purchase...
A teacher-user's viewpoint PLUS excellent student feedback
as a future calculus teacher...
Don't Support this cause!!!!!

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This flexible series offers instructors a true balance of traditional and conceptual approaches to calculus for math, science, and engineering majors. The Second Edition continues to focus on conceptual understanding as its primary goal and combines a variety of approaches and viewpoints to help students achieve this understanding. In addition to providing a readable tone that appeals to students and supports independent work, the authors present a balance of traditional theorems and proofs along with conceptually driven examples and exercises featuring graphical, numerical, and symbolic points of view. In addition, the text offers a wealth of diverse, well-graded exercises, including some more challenging problems.

Varied exercise sets feature Basic Exercises, which help reinforce a single concept, and Further Exercises, which provide more challenge, requiring the synthesis of several ideas, deeper or more sophisticated understanding of basic concepts, or better symbol manipulation skills. Guidelines on how to assign the exercises can be found in the Instructor's Resource Manual.
Topics are presented first using graphs and then through symbols.
Selective emphasis on proofs presents discussion of only those proofs that contribute significantly to the understanding of calculus concepts.
Derivatives appear earlier in the text, first in Section 1.4. Chapter 1 now includes complete coverage of the graphical point of view, Chapter 2 introduces and interprets the symbolic point of view, and Chapter 3 presents the combinatorial rules for calculating derivatives (e.g., the product and quotient rules).
Coverage of Differential Equations appears earlier and more frequently than in the first edition. Section 2.5 presents the basic idea (a few sections after introducing the ideas of derivative and antiderivative in symbolic form).
Chapter-ending Interludes—brief project-oriented expositions with exercises designed for independent student work—address topics or questions that are 'optional' or out of the given chapter's main stream of development.

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Horrible for the beginner student.......2005-10-05

Horrible text due to the following reasons:
* authors use "convince yourself" too many times without showing adequate amount of proofs (typical method of "convincing" students in other texts). Personally, I got so fed up with this that I threw this book (softcovered edition) on the wall of my dormitory hundreds of times throughout the semester out of frustration. I was lucky that I had an EXCELLENT professor during my first semester of Calculus.
* the "proofs" that are used are mostly examples or counterexample and do not rigerously explain the "why" questions?
* needs organization
* not enough examples to adequately solve end of chapter problems; humans learn through example
* some typographical errors

Pro's: Some of the end of the chapter problems are ingenious and help provide the student with a deeper understanding of the material.

Overall: If you are a student forced to use this text you should obtain another book (Hostetler for example) to supplement the reading material and attend all lectures. This was the only way I passed the class.

Be careful which version of the book you purchase..........2005-09-05

I can't rate this book because what I got delivered was volume 2, when I needed volume 1 and the description above at the time of my order did not state this. It only listed an edition(2nd), not the volume. So, Im out shipping $$ as I have to return it. Just want to make people aware of this.

Cheers.

A teacher-user's viewpoint PLUS excellent student feedback.......2005-05-26

Most of the other reviews have it wrong. I imagine they are mostly from calculus students who got grades they didn't want, which isn't hard to do no matter WHAT book is used. I'd hate to think any calculus teachers downrated this book. It's a prize winner.

I teach advanced placement calculus; have for 34 years, during which time I've seen and used a LOT of calculus texts. This book is an excellent treatment of the topics of calculus--not Real Analysis, for math majors, but great for its intended audience.

Most of my students read the book since I encourage that. Most who read it report that they like it, especially the humor. Those who don't like it no doubt dislike the lack of example after example after example after example after example that dull the mind and prepare the reader ONLY for those numerous similar-if-not-identical problems in the homework.

Not an easy read? It's CALCULUS! Read it slowly for comprehension, with a pencil. It's not a novel.

But it IS NOVEL. Its concept-oriented approach is quite unlike the traditional algebraic approach. We have computer algebra systems today; UNDERSTANDING the CONCEPTS of calculus is what's more important and Ostebee and Zorn provide this through a variety of thought-provoking problems. In most sections, no two are alike. FAR from traditional-looking.

As a reform text, it is unusual in that they built the book from the ground up. None of this, "OK, we're getting pressure to put in graphing calculator problems; let's make volume umpteen different--put little calculator icons next to every 3rd problem and add a few lines to each chapter and stick 'Graphing Calculator' in the title" approach taken by other authors and companies.

But it's not just for high school AP calculus. Many colleges use it. Do an internet search. No, it's not as widely used as some of the aforementioned modifications of older popular texts, and should NOT be unless instructor and student are unwilling to think, assimilate, and apply concepts constantly. P.S. This is a sure fire way to learn ANYthing.

as a future calculus teacher..........2003-01-21

I used this book for my calc class and while it is an interesting and noble approach at changing the way calculus is being taught today, it lacks the ability to explain things on the student's level. It is a great text if someone already knows calculus, to get at the concepts in an alternative light. However, for students with little or no calculus experience - prepare to be lost and pray for a hepful professor.

Don't Support this cause!!!!!.......2002-01-30

This book is awful. From both personal and second-hand experiences, I can say that this book will make your life miserable. The authors attempt to give the readers a deeper understanding of calculus concepts, but go about it an an obtuse and incredibly disorienting fashion. The book is chock-full of obscure references, half-hearted derivations, dizzying metaphors and incredibly bad jokes. Trying to follow this text is like trying to follow the wing movements of a hummingbird on steroids.

Also, the authors of this book are devious in their methods. They are constantly re-issuing new editions, and because they have a vice grip on their school's math department, students are forced to buy new editions every semester. This means after suffering our way through an entire semester of this dreadful text, we can't even get a decent deal when we try to sell back our books, because it is a new edition has been released. Math professors, this book is not worth your time. Do not supoprt this machine. It is a bad, bad thing. Liberate us!!!

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Oh, mine!!!

Organized and intuitive

moderately better than previous books in the series

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I like this book!.......2007-01-20

I took the class from Professor Paul Zorn a while ago, in 2001. The experience was just incredible. He's a very friendly and accessible professor! I still remembered we discussed about the Riemann sums via emails. The best feature of this book is that it gives you very good intuition, then leads you to the more rigorous process through numerical demonstrations and graphs etc. It's a great series for those who hates math!--Abel

Student solutions manual is a waste of money.......2006-02-07

I am a college student currently taking multivariable calculus with the text by Ostebee and Zorn, and decided that the student solutions manual would be beneficial for the course. I thought wrong. Most student solutions manuals are designed not only to display the answer, but to work through the problems and show how to approach and solve the problem. Not this one. In almost every instance, the only difference between the solutions normally in the back of the book and the solutions in this manual is the fact that the answers in this manual are stated in complete sentences, as if that helps anyone understand the material any better. The only chapter that gives any help whatsoever are the solutions to chapter 11, sequences and series, and even that is debatable. Do yourself a favor, and save your money. The only use I have received from the purchase is that it keeps me from having to flip back and forth in my text to check my work. If it was between spending $20+ on this over-rated paperweight and having to flip to the back of my text more, I would choose the latter in a heartbeat.

In short, don't waste the money, the solution manual is worthless. You can get the same help in the back of the regular textbook.

Oh, mine!!!.......2002-08-11

Thank goodness that this one is better than the previous two, as said by the previous reviewer. When I was reading the text, I could not help falling asleep even though I had drunk 3 big cups of strong coffee. However, when I turned to Spivak's or Simmons', the situation totally changed! However, one thing that I truly thank the author is that they have taught me how to talk about math. But the numerical stuffs are awfully bad, and the graphs are made not quite attractive. Anyway, it's but a mediocre text of calculus for liberal arts major or future secondary school teachers of math. But as a pioneer of the calculus reform, this one is probably the would-be "classic". For future mathematicians: try Spivak or Apostol
For future physicists: try Edwards and Penney's and Stewart's

Organized and intuitive.......2001-11-04

Even though a lot of professors and instructors have weeded out these texts, I found this book to be organized and helpful.
However, engineers are usually required to take some form of Advanced Engineering Math. I believe AEM is more detailed than Calculus III (multivariable) and that the books for AEM are usually more helpful than straight multivariable calculus. The reason is because multivariable calculus is too focused on the theory behind concepts like Green's Theorem, etc.. and doesn't really aim towards helping the student apply this knowledge in the field.

Sometimes its easier to understand things that you can find ways of using in real life.

moderately better than previous books in the series.......2001-02-05

O and Z's first two books in their series of calculus texts were not helpful to most of the students that I know, myself included. The examples are missing crucial steps, the authors include confusing and unnecessary information, and many of the exercises are not especially helpful. While "Multivariable Calculus" retains some of these flaws (it, too, contains many examples that lack a thorough explanantion), it is a slight improvement. The chapters are slightly shorter, and--unlike the first books--there is little extraneous material. The exercises are also somewhat more helpful and relevant. There is also less reliance on computer programs and graphing calculators. The book is still not outstanding, but for students who have already begun the O and Z series in their courses, this book will not be impossible to use. However, this texxt would not be my choice if i were a teacher.

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