The Early Middle Ages

Shed light on the Dark Ages with this absorbing course that relates the often surprising true story of how Rome ended and Western civilization began.

• By This Professor
• 01: Long Shadows and the Dark Ages
• 02: Diocletian and the Crises of the Third Century
• 03: Constantine the Great-Christian Emperor
• 04: Pagans and Christians in the Fourth Century
• 05: Athletes of God
• 06: Augustine, Part One
• 07: Augustine, Part Two
• 08: Barbarians at the Gate
• 09: Franks and Goths
• 10: Arthur's England
• 11: Justinian and the Byzantine Empire
• 12: The House of Islam
• 13: Rise of the Carolingians
• 14: Charlemagne
• 15: Carolingian Christianity
• 16: The Carolingian Renaissance
• 17: Fury of the Northmen
• 18: Collapse of the Carolingian Empire
• 19: The Birth of France and Germany
• 20: England in the Age of Alfred
• 21: Al-Andalus-Islamic Spain
• 22: Carolingian Europe-Gateway to the Middle Ages
• 23: Family Life-How Then Became Now
• 24: Long Shadows and the Dark Ages Revisited