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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The great Scholastics - Anselm, Abelard, and Aquinas - were brilliant, often eccentric thinkers who came out of the Latin-speaking clerical and academic world that gave the West one of its greatest intellectual and institutional patrimonies: the university.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Despite being battered by centuries of Muslim, Magyar, and Viking attacks and invasions, Europe was able by 1095 to begin striking east and south in a series of Crusades that would span two centuries. It was one of history's great reversals. How did it happen?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
For 100 years after the death of Marcus Aurelius in 180, the Romans put up almost no great public structures - a sign of severe trouble. What lay behind this crisis, and how did Diocletian (who became emperor in 284) and his successor Constantine successfully respond?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Once Rome stopped persecuting its adherents, the new Christian faith spread through the Roman world in the form of a large, hierarchical organization. Still, achieving a "catholic" (i.e., universal) definition of key beliefs proved difficult.
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
The years from 900 onward saw an explosion of vernacular (i.e. non-Latin) writings. Why did people begin creating formal written works in their native tongues? Does knowing this literature bring us closer to the people of medieval Europe?
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Since 1839, scholars have been associating the Carolingians with a "renaissance." Why? What is Carolingian culture's distinctive contribution to the West, and how does it set them apart from their Muslim and Byzantine contemporaries?
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