The Early Middle Ages
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
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.
Syllabus
- 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
Taught by
Philip Daileader
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