Ideas in Western culture: the medieval and renaissance world [TTC Audio]
English | 1995 | 14 hrs and 37 mins | MP3 | 446 MB
Authors: Ori Z. Soltes, Teaching Company
Examination of period from Constantine's conversion to the growth of doubt during the seventeenth century, illustrated with a wide variety of literary and visual art.
20 lectures on 4 cassettes.
1. The barbarians and the medieval world --
2. The struggle to define Christendom --
3. Medieval literature and poetic tradition --
4. The fringes of western Europe --
5. Church and state --
6. Symbols of faith --
7. Questions of faith and understanding --
8. Ideas and images --
9. Knights of romance --
10. Morality, entertainment and human fellowship --
11. Street language becomes literature --
12. Renaissance humanism --
13. Esoteric humanism and human form --
14. Educating the powerful and the privileged --
15. From heaven to earth --
16. Vision and revision --
17. From earth to heaven --
18. April fool's day --
19. Myth, history, power and family --
20. Religious wars and individual reflections
