The High Middle Ages
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
Better understand the fascinating world of medieval Europe with this engaging course that explores the years 1000-1300.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why the Middle Ages?
- 02: Demography and the Commercial Revolution
- 03: Those Who Fought-The Nobles
- 04: The Chivalric Code
- 05: Feudalism
- 06: Those Who Worked-The Peasants
- 07: Those Who Worked-The Townspeople
- 08: Women in Medieval Society
- 09: Those Who Prayed-The Monks
- 10: Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan Movement
- 11: Heretics and Heresy
- 12: The Medieval Inquisitions
- 13: Jews and Christians
- 14: The Origins of Scholasticism
- 15: Aquinas and the Problem of Aristotle
- 16: The First Universities
- 17: The People's Crusade
- 18: The Conquest of Jerusalem
- 19: The Norman Conquest
- 20: Philip II of France
- 21: Magna Carta
- 22: Empire versus Papacy
- 23: Emperor Frederick II
- 24: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Taught by
Philip Daileader
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