The medieval world /
Dorsey Armstrong.
- Chantilly, Virginia : The Teaching Company, 2009.
- 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 136 pages ; 19 cm).
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Course no. 8280. 36 half-hour lectures with lecture transcripts in one guidebook. "36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Back of container. "Topic: Medieval history.
Disc 1. The Medieval world -- The legacy of the Roman world -- The Christianization of Europe -- After the Roman Empire: hybrid cultures -- Early monasticism -- From Merovingian Gaul to Carolingian France. Disc 2. Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance -- Byzantium, Islam, and the West -- The Viking invasions -- Alfred the Great -- The rearrangement of the medieval world -- The Norman conquest and the Bayeux tapestry. Disc 3. King Arthur: the power of the legend -- The three orders of medieval society -- Pilgrimage and sainthood -- Knighthood and heraldry -- The Gothic cathedral -- Piety, politics, and persecution. Disc 4. The persistence of an ideal -- Late medieval religious institutions -- The Magna Carta -- Daily life in a noble household -- Daily life in a medieval village -- Medieval city life. Disc 5. Food and drink -- Music and entertainment -- Dress and fashion -- Medieval medicine -- The Black Death and its effects -- Childhood in the Middle Ages. Disc 6. Marriage and the family -- Art and artisans -- Science an technology -- Weapons and warfare -- Revolts, uprisings, and wars -- Toward the early modern period.
Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the brief, brilliant cultural phenomenon we call the Renaissance lay the Middle Ages - fully 1,000 years of artistic, philosophical, political, and religious turmoil and treasures. This course offers an interdisciplinary look at medieval society and culture, with an emphasis on literature, the arts, and the tumultuous historical forces at work from A.D. 500 through A.D. 1500. Medieval Europe was the world of cathedrals and universities; pilgrimages and saints; the Black Death; The Vikings; the spread of Islam; the Crusades; and the forging of the Greek, Latin, Old Norse, and ancient Germanic and Celtic tongues into the languages we speak today.
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Education. Teaching. Educación Enseñanza Civilización occidental--Historia Civilización medieval Historia medieval