The Medieval Legacy

<p>Take a fascinating and eye-opening journey into the Middle Ages while you uncover the remarkable ways in which the medieval world still influences our thinking, our collective consciousness, and our ways of life.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Discovering the Medieval Legacy
• 02: The Medieval Birth of the Book
• 03: Medieval Innovations in Record Keeping
• 04: The Beginnings of Orthodoxy and Heresy
• 05: Anti-Semitism’s Medieval Roots
• 06: Holy War and Its Long Legacy
• 07: The Cult of the Virgin Mary
• 08: The Imaginative Power of Chivalry
• 09: The Legacy of Heraldry and Pedigree
• 10: “Town Air Makes You Free”
• 11: Guilds and the Rise of Organized Labor
• 12: The Medieval Rise of the Rule of Law
• 13: Medieval Government and Collective Rights
• 14: Medieval Sovereignty and the State
• 15: The Medieval Roots of the King’s English
• 16: Medieval Narratives of Nationalism
• 17: Medieval Narratives in Modern War
• 18: The University’s Medieval Origins
• 19: The Origins of the Scientific Method
• 20: Our Debts to the Medieval World of Money
• 21: The Medieval Explosion of Documentation
• 22: The Medieval Invention of Purgatory
• 23: Medieval Evolutions in Hospitals and Prisons
• 24: Medieval Rhyme, Romance, and Sagas
• 25: The Medieval Rise of Professional Authors
• 26: How Vernacular Bibles Transformed Faith
• 27: Recovering Medieval Arts and Artists
• 28: The Medieval Artistic Imagination Persists
• 29: The Black Death’s Lasting Lessons
• 30: The Medieval Invention of Race?
• 31: Medievalism and Modern Racism
• 32: Rediscovering Medieval Sex and Gender
• 33: Medieval Games We Still Play
• 34: Medieval Revolutions in Dress and Dining
• 35: Medieval Inventions That Changed the World
• 36: Medievalism, Pop Culture, and the Present