DVD

The medieval world / Professor Dorsey Armstrong, Ourdue University.

Armstrong, Dorsey, 1970- (teacher,, speaker.). Teaching Company, (production company.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

ISBN: 1598036033
ISBN: 9781598036039
Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (136 pages ; 19 cm).
Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2009]
Copyright: ©2009

Content descriptions

General Note:	Course No. 8280. 36 half-hour lectures with lecture transcripts in one guidebook. "36 lectures / 30 minutes per lecture"--Back of container.
Formatted Contents Note:	Disc 1. Medieval world -- Legacy of the Roman world -- 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 -- Viking invasions -- Alfred the Great -- Rearrangement of the medieval world -- Norman conquest and the Bayeux tapestry. Disc 3. King Arthur: the power of the legend -- Three orders of medieval society -- Pilgrimage and sainthood -- Knighthood and heraldry -- Gothic cathedral -- Piety, politics, and persecution. Disc 4. Persistence of an ideal -- Late medieval religious institutions -- 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 -- 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.
Participant or Performer Note:	Taught by professor Dorsey Armstrong of Purdue University.
System Details Note:	DVD format.