Foundations of Western Civilization

Entête
Prof : Professor Thomas F. X. Noble University of Notre Dame

Copyright © The Teaching Company, 2002

Sujet(s) : Histoire

Période(s) : Néolithique, antiquité, moyen-âge, renaissance

Timeline : 10 000 avant J.C. à 1600

LECTURE 1 - “Western,” “Civilization,” and “Foundations”
Qu'entendons-nous par "occidentale", "civilisation" et "fondements"?

"Occident"
Distinguer l'Occident dans le temps du reste du monde n'est pas une affaire tout à fait évidente.

LECTURE 2 - History Begins at Sumer
LECTURE 3 - Egypt—The Gift of the Nile

LECTURE 4 - The Hebrews—Small States and Big Ideas

LECTURE 5 - A Succession of Empires

LECTURE 6 - Wide-Ruling Agamemnon

LECTURE 7 - Dark Age and Archaic Greece

LECTURE 8 - The Greek Polis—Sparta

LECTURE 9 - The Greek Polis—Athens

LECTURE 10 - Civic Culture—Architecture and Drama

LECTURE 11 - The Birth of History

LECTURE 12 - From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy

LECTURE 13 - Plato and Aristotle

LECTURE 14 - The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander

LECTURE 15 - The Hellenistic World

LECTURE 16 - The Rise of Rome

LECTURE 17 - The Roman Republic—Government and Politics

LECTURE 18 - Roman Imperialism

LECTURE 19 - The Culture of the Roman Republic

LECTURE 20 - Rome—From Republic to Empire

LECTURE 21 - The Pax Romana

LECTURE 22 - Rome’s Golden and Silver Ages

LECTURE 23 - Jesus and the New Testament

LECTURE 24 - The Emergence of a Christian Church

LECTURE 25 - Late Antiquity—Crisis and Response

LECTURE 26 - Barbarians and Emperors

LECTURE 27 - The Emergence of the Catholic Church

LECTURE 28 - Christian Culture in Late Antiquity

LECTURE 29 - Muhammad and Islam

LECTURE 30 - The Birth of Byzantium

LECTURE 31 - Barbarian Kingdoms in the West

LECTURE 32 - The World of Charlemagne

LECTURE 33 - The Carolingian Renaissance

LECTURE 34 - The Expansion of Europe

LECTURE 35 - The Chivalrous Society

LECTURE 36 - Medieval Political Traditions, I

LECTURE 37 - Medieval Political Traditions, II

LECTURE 38 - Scholastic Culture

LECTURE 39 - Vernacular Culture

LECTURE 40 - The Crisis of Renaissance Europe

LECTURE 41 - The Renaissance Problem

LECTURE 42 - Renaissance Portraits

LECTURE 43 - The Northern Renaissance

LECTURE 44 - The Protestant Reformation—Martin Luther

LECTURE 45 - The Protestant Reformation—John Calvin

LECTURE 46 - Catholic Reforms and “Confessionalization”

LECTURE 47 - Exploration and Empire

LECTURE 48 - What Challenges Remain?