The early Middle Ages / taught by Philip Daileader.
"We often call them the "Dark Ages," the era which spanned the decline and fall of Rome’s western empire and lingered for centuries, a time when the Ancient World was ending and Europe had seemingly vanished into ignorance and shadow, its literacy and urban life declining, its isolation from the res...
| Uniform Title: | Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.
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| Language: | English |
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Chantilly, Va. :
Teaching Co.,
[2004], ©2004.
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| Series: | Great courses (DVD). Ancient & medieval history.
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| Physical Description: | 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm). |
| Variant Title: |
Early Middle Ages. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
Contents:
- Part 1.: Lecture 1. Long shadows and the Dark Ages
- Lecture 2. Diocletian and the crises of the third century
- Lecture 3. Constantine the Great- Christian emperor
- Lecture 4. Pagans and Christians in the fourth century
- Lecture 5. Athletes of God
- Lecture 6. Augustine, part 1
- Lecture 7. Augustine, part 2
- Lecture 8. Barbarians at the gate
- Lecture 9. Franks and Goths
- Lecture 10. Arthur's England
- Lecture 11. Justinian and the Byzantine Empire
- Lecture 12. The house of Islam.
- Part 2. Lecture 13. Rise of the Carolingians
- Lecture 14. Charlemagne
- Lecture 15. Carolingian Christianity
- Lecture 16. The Carolingian Renaissance
- Lecture 17. Fury of the Northmen
- Lecture 18. Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
- Lecture 19. The birth of France and Germany
- Lecture 20. England in the age of Alfred
- Lecture 21. Al-Andalus: Islamic Spain
- Lecture 22. Carolingian Europe: gateway to the Middle Ages
- Lecture 23. Family life: how then became now
- Lecture 24. Long shadows and the Dark Ages revisited.