Age of Discovery

The Age of Discovery was a time of exploration and developing new ideas, when Europeans first travelled across the seas to other lands.

In his warm and expressive style, Charles Kovacs tells stories of key historical figures, from the Crusades to the Renaissance, including Saladin, Joan of Arc, Columbus, Magellan, Queen Elizabeth I and Francis Drake, and draws out the interrelation of world events.

This revised edition of a classic text is an engaging resource for teachers and home-schooling parents. This historical period is traditionally covered in Class 7 (age 13-14) of the Waldorf curriculum.

About the author

Charles Kovacs was born in Austria. He left his native country in 1938 at the time of the Anschluss and joined the British Army in East Africa. After the War, he settled in Britain, and in 1956 he took over a class at the Rudolf Steiner School in Edinburgh, where he remained a class teacher until his retirement in 1976. He died in 2001. His extensive lesson notes have been a useful and inspiring resource material for many teachers. He is the author of Parsifal and the Search for the Grail (Floris Books 2002) and Ancient Greece (Floris Books 2003).

Summary

New revised edition of a classic text featuring stories of key European historical figures from the Crusades to the Renaissance. A helpful resource for teaching Class 7 in the Steiner-Waldorf curriculum.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Kovacs, Charles Kovacs, Kovacs Charles
• Publisher: Floris Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.11.2022
• EAN: 9781782508519
• ISBN: 978-1-78250-851-9
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Waldorf Education Resources
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, Geographical discovery & exploration, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, Geographical discovery and exploration