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Odyssey of the West : part 3, The medieval world

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  • Contributor: Madden, Thomas F.; Potkay, Monica Brzezinski; Shutt, Timothy Baker
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
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    Copyrighted
    2007
    Summary:

    This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious studies, political science, and the history of science and technology in hopes of engaging discussions that, over the course of forty centuries have made Western culture what it is.

    Contents:
    • St. Augustine of Hippo and the Confessions and City of God
    • Constantine, Boethius, and the fall ofthe Western Roman Empire
    • The Germantic North: Beowulf and The Poetic Edda
    • Byzantium and the Eastern Empire
    • The rise of Islam
    • Monasticism
    • Scholastic Philosophy and St. Thomas Aquinas
    • Troubadours and Celts in The Lais of Marie de France
    • The matter of Britain: Chrétien de Troyes
    • Dante: Vita Nuova and Inferno
    • Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
    • Gothic art and architecture
    • Late Scholasticism and Early Modern Science
    • Early Renaissance culture.

     

    Genre:
    History and geography, Informational works
    Subject(s): Civilization, Western | Classical influences | Literature, Medieval | Literature, Modern
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, Recorded Books
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781456103224