《西方文化与礼仪》讲述了：Modernism described twentieth-century artistic developments in painting, sculpture, and music.Rapid communications resulted in crosscultural exchanges and the assimilation and transformation of themes and techniques from many different cultures. A popular culture also developed, led by the United States and transmitted by the mass media.

东西方之间在文化和礼仪上迥然有别，各国人民在进行文化和礼尚交往时的习惯也各有千秋。《西方文化与礼仪》是培养学生具备基本的西方文化知识、较广阔的文化视野和良好的国家礼仪修养的课程，介绍了西方文化与礼仪的历史与发展，理论性与实践性并重，人文性与时代性并存。

Chapter 1 The Origin of Western Culture
1.1 The Prehistoric Culture of Europe
1.2 The Aegean Culture
1.3 The Ancient Near Eastern Culture
1.4 The Hebrew Culture

Chapter 2 The Prosperity of Western Classical Culture
2.1 Early Greek Culture
2.2 The Flowering of the Classical Greek Culture
2.3 Culture in Hellenistic Age
2.4 Roman Classical Culture
2.5 The Decline of Roman Classical Culture and the Rise of Christian Culture

Chapter 3 Christian Culture in Western Europe of the Middle Ages
3.1 Western Culture in Early Middle Ages
3.2 Christian Church in Medieval Western Europe
3.3 Renaissance of Western Europe in the Twelfth Century

Chapter 4 The Modern Transformation of Western Culture
4.1 The Decline of the Medieval Civilization
4.2 The Age of the Renaissance
4.3 The Age of Reformation
4.4 The Expansion of Western Culture

Chapter 5 Modern Culture in the Age of Enoighenment
5.1 Western Society in the 17th and 18th Century
5.2 The Enlightenment

Chapter 6 Western Culture in Industrialization
6.1 Technological Inventions and Industrialized Society
6.2 Western Thoughts in Industrialization
6.3 Romanticism and Realism
6.4 Music in Romantic Era
6.5 Western Painting in Nineteenth Century

Chapter 7 Western Culture in the First Half of the 20th century
7.1 Great Development of Science and Technology in the Early Time of the 20th Century
7.2 Introvert Philosophy and Positive Philosophy
7.3 The Development of Economics
7.4 Modernist Literature and Art in the West
7.5 Changeable Western Social Science

Chapter 8 Western Culture in Post World War TwO
8.1 Rapid Achievements of Science and Technology
8.2 The Philosophy Schools in the Western Countries
8.3 The Underchanging Sociology in America and the West Europe
8.4 The Western Economics after Keynes
8.5 The Modernist Literature and Art in the Post World War Two

Chapter 9 The Convention of International Communication
9.1 Introduction to Etiquette
9.2 General Rules of Communicating with Foreigners
9.3 Everyday Etiquette
9.4 Etiquette of Welcoming

Chapter 10 Customs and Etiquettes of Some Countries
10.1 Asian Countries
10.2 African, American and Oceanian Countries
10.3 European Countries
后记
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Although the popes of this period were no less devout and no less concerned about the spiritual welfare of Christian society than their predecessors had been, the demands made upon them were very different from those of an earlier period. As the social and political structures of European society bad changed, so too had the concept of the Church and the expectations people had of its leaders. Many of those who complained the loudest about the "new Pharisees" of Rome also flooded the Roman curia with legal appeals, petitioned it for office and placement, and became its official theologians, lawyers, tax collectors, and administrators. The last major phase of the conflict between empire and papacy, then, saw a different kind of papal office on one side of the polarity.
The imperial office also changed during the later part of the struggle. The emperors of the Romans were also the kings of Germany, and the Investiture Conflict had revealed that the two offices were not as separate in fact as they might be in theory. The needs of the kingdom of Germany colored both the functions of the imperial office in the later twelfth and thirteenth centuries and the policy of the kings of Germany, emperors of the Romans. Although much of the earlier prestige and memory of the emperors from Charlemagne to Henry V survived in imperial policy and propaganda, the actual facts of imperial rule changed nearly as much as the actual problems of papal governance.

东西方之间在文化和礼仪上迥然有别，各国人民在进行文化和礼尚交往时的习惯也各有千秋。随着中国走向国际化，中西方之间的交流、交际会越来越普遍。因此，了解东西方文化的差别和礼尚交往之间的习惯差异是很有必要的。从大处来说，当今全球一体化趋势日益明显，人类历史也就在愈来愈大的程度上成为全世界的历史；任何一种文化的发展都离不开对其他优秀文化的汲取，都以其他文化的发展为前提；地球上所有的人类文化，都是我们共同的宝贵遗产，我们也要从西方文化中汲取养分。从小处来讲，了解西方人的文化和礼仪，是对对方的尊重，容易给对方留下一个美好印象，以便交往顺利进行。
唐德根教授主持的湖南省精品课程跨文化交际学系列教材之一《西方文化与礼仪*是外语专业的必修课程，是培养学生具备基本的西方文化知识、较广阔的文化视野和良好的国际礼仪修养的课程。本教程理论性与实践性并重，人文性和时代性共存。
本教程在湘潭大学、湖南科技大学和湖南科技学院等高等院校试用多年，效果很好。在充分吸收广大师生的意见后，主编对本书的体例和内容进行了完善。当然，本书还有继续完善之处，恳请各位专家、同仁赐教！