In this sweeping course, you get the classic grand tour of ancient Western civilization, taught by an award-winning professor of history at Notre Dame.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: "Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations"
- 02: History Begins at Sumer
- 03: Egypt-The Gift of the Nile
- 04: The Hebrews-Small States and Big Ideas
- 05: A Succession of Empires
- 06: Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
- 07: Dark Age and Archaic Greece
- 08: The Greek Polis-Sparta
- 09: The Greek Polis-Athens
- 10: Civic Culture-Architecture and Drama
- 11: The Birth of History
- 12: From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy
- 13: Plato and Aristotle
- 14: The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander
- 15: The Hellenistic World
- 16: The Rise of Rome
- 17: The Roman Republic-Government and Politics
- 18: Roman Imperialism
- 19: The Culture of the Roman Republic
- 20: Rome-From Republic to Empire
- 21: The Pax Romana
- 22: Rome's Golden and Silver Ages
- 23: Jesus and the New Testament
- 24: The Emergence of a Christian Church
- 25: Late Antiquity-Crisis and Response
- 26: Barbarians and Emperors
- 27: The Emergence of the Catholic Church
- 28: Christian Culture in Late Antiquity
- 29: Muhammad and Islam
- 30: The Birth of Byzantium
- 31: Barbarian Kingdoms in the West
- 32: The World of Charlemagne
- 33: The Carolingian Renaissance
- 34: The Expansion of Europe
- 35: The Chivalrous Society
- 36: Medieval Political Traditions, I
- 37: Medieval Political Traditions, II
- 38: Scholastic Culture
- 39: Vernacular Culture
- 40: The Crisis of Renaissance Europe
- 41: The Renaissance Problem
- 42: Renaissance Portraits
- 43: The Northern Renaissance
- 44: The Protestant Reformation-Martin Luther
- 45: The Protestant Reformation-John Calvin
- 46: Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization"
- 47: Exploration and Empire
- 48: What Challenges Remain?
Taught by
Thomas F. X. Noble
