The Foundations of Western Civilization

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Call Number: DVD 909.09 No Oversize
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"History"--Container covers.
48 lectures on 8 discs.
Disc 1: "Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations" -- History begins at Sumer -- Egypt, the gift of the Nile -- The Hebrews, small states and big ideas-- A succession of empires -- Wide-ruling Agamemnon. Disc 2: Dark Age and Archaic Greece -- The Greek polis, Sparta -- The Greek polis, Athens -- Civic culture, architecture and drama -- The birth of history -- From Greek religion to Socratic philosophy.
Disc 3: Plato and Aristotle -- The failure of the polis and the rise of Alexander -- The Hellenistic world -- The rise of Rome -- The Roman republic: government and politics -- Roman imperialism. Disc 4: The culture of the Roman republic -- Rome: from republic to empire -- The Pax Romana -- Rome's golden and silver ages -- Jesus and the New Testament -- The emergence of a Christian church.
Disc 5: Late antiquity: crisis and response -- Barbarians and emperors -- The emergence of the Catholic Church -- Christian culture in late antiquity -- Muhammad and Islam -- The birth of Byzantium. Disc 6: The barbarian kingdoms in the west -- The world of Charlemagne -- The Carolingian renaissance -- The expansion of Europe -- The chivalrous society -- Medieval political traditions I.
Disc 7: Medieval political traditions II -- Scholastic culture -- Vernacular culture -- The crisis of renaissance Europe -- The renaissance problem -- Renaissance portraits -- The northern renaissance -- The Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther -- The Protestant Reformation: John Calvin -- Catholic reforms and "confessionalization" -- Exploration and empire -- What challenges remain?
Lecturer: Thomas F.X. Noble, Univ. of Norte Dame.
Explores the origins of western civilization from its beginnings in the Middle East through the age of exploration and empire.
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