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- Lectures on Ancient and Early Medieval History - Main
- Lecture 1: What is Civilization?
- Resources for the Study of Western Civilization
- Lecture 2: Ancient Western Asia and the Civilization of Mesopotamia
- Epic of Gilgamesh
- Mesopotamian Civilization -- Resources
- Cuneiform Writing
- Sumerian Civilization Resources
- The Code of Hammurabi
- Lecture 3: Egyptian Civilization
- Egyptian Civilization Resources
- Lecture 4: The Akkadians, Egyptians and the Hebrews
- The Reign of Sargon of Akkad
The Mythopoeic World View of Ancient Man
- Lecture 5: Homer and the Greek Renaissance, 900-600BC
- Mycenaean Resources
- Homer on the Internet
- Trojan War Resources
- The Heroic Outlook and the Greek World
- Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy
- Ancient Greek Civilization Resources
- Aristotle on the Excellence of the Polis
- Pericles on Athenian Democracy
- Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC
- Herodotus on the Victory at Marathon
- The Funeral Oration of
Pericles
- Thucydides on the Athenian Plague of 430 B.C.
- Aeschylus Resources
- Sophocles, 496-406 B.C.
- Euripides, c.480-406 B.C.
- Aristophanes, c.448-c.380
- Herodotus, c.485-425 B.C.
- Thucydides, c.460-c.400 B.C.
- Lecture 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
- The Pre-Socratic Philosophers: Resources
- Socrates, c.469-399 B.C.
- Plato, c.427-347 B.C.
- Plato, The Allegory of the
Cave
- Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.
- Lecture 9: From Polis to Cosmopolis -- Alexander and Hellenistic Greece, 323-30 B.C.
- Philip II, 383-336 B.C.
- Alexander the Great, 356-323 B.C.
The Decline of the Athenian Polis- Philosophy
as Therapy and the End of the Polis
- Epicurus, 341-270 B.C.
Sextus Empiricus and the Principles of
Skepticism
- Lecture 10: Early Roman Civilization,
753-509B.C.
- Roman History -- Resources
- Lecture 11: Republican Rome,
509-31B.C.
- The Laws of the Twelve Tables, c.450 B.C.
Plutarch on the Murder of Tiberius Graachus, 133 B.C.
- Lecture 12: Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana
- Gaius Julius Caesar, c.100-44 B.C.
- Augustus
Caesar, 68 B.C.-A.D. 14
- The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
- Lecture 13: A Social History of the Roman Empire
- Seneca on Gladiatorial Contests
Selected Resources on Roman Social History
- Lecture 14: The Decline and Fall of Rome
- Lecture 15: Christianity
as a Cultural Revolution
- Lecture 16: The
Church Fathers: St. Jerome and St. Augustine
- St. Jerome, c.342-420
- St. Augustine, 354-430
- Lecture 17: Byzantine Civilization
- Emperor Justinian, c.482-565
- Empress Theodora, c.500-547
- Byzantine Resources
- Lecture 18: Islamic Civilization
- Resources for Islamic History
- Lecture 19: Early Medieval Monasticism
- St. Benedict of Nursia, c.480-c.543
- Lecture 20: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance
- Boethius, c.475-524
- The Conversion of Clovis
- Charlemagne, 742-814
Einhard on the Coronation of Charlemagne
- Lecture 21: Feudalism and the Feudal
Relationship
- Feudalism Resources
- Lecture 22: European Rural Society: Manorialism
- Lecture 23:
Medieval Society: The Three Orders
- Resources for Medieval European History
- Lecture 24: The Medieval World View
- Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804
- Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
(1781)
- St. Thomas Aquinas on the Internet
- Goliardic Verse
- Lecture 25: The Holy Crusades
- Constantine the Great, c.274-337
- The Capture of Jerusalem, 1099
- The Children's Crusades (1212)
- Lecture 26: The 12th Century Renaissance
- Peter Abelard, 1079-1142
- Peter Abelard, Sic et Non (Yes
and No)
- The "Disputatio"
- Lecture 27: Heretics, Heresies and the Church
- Fourth Lateran Council (1215): Canon 3 -
On Heresy
- St. Dominic,
c.1170-1221
- The Rule of St. Francis, c.1233
- Lecture 28: Aquinas and Dante
- St. Thomas Aquinas on the Internet
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Lecture 29: Satan Triumphant: The Black Death
- Internet Resources on the Black Death
- Giovanni Boccaccio, 1313-1375
- Jean
de Venette on the Progress of the Black Death
- Map of the Movement of the Black Death
- Jean Froissart on the Flagellant Movement
- Lecture 30: In the Wake of the Black Death
- The Statute of Labourers (1351)
- William Langland's The Vision Concerning Piers Plowman
- Jean Froissart on the "Jacquerie" (1358)
- The Death of Wat Tyler (1381)
- The Hundred Years' War Resources
- Joan of Arc, c.1412-1431
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