This course explores the essential contours of the human experience in what has come to be called "Western civilization." From its humble beginnings in the ancient Near East to the dawn of the modern world, these presentations cover developments from about 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600
Presents 24 lectures discussing the flowering of European medieval civilization between 1000 and 1300, with examination of social conditions, intellectual and religious history, and political developments.
Professor Kenneth W. Harl of Tulane University delivers twenty-four lectures on the history of Asia Minor, from its origins as a civilization in Anatolia to the Ottoman Empire.
Focusing on the seven centuries from 300 to 1000, this course examines the period of European history known as the "Dark Ages." The period is dominated by two empires, the Roman Empire and the Carolingian Empire.