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The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest
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202436 epizód
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Epizódok
- 1. ÉVAD, 1. EPIZÓD – From Britannia to Britain2024. január 17.34 minA discussion of how the geography of Britain has shaped political events over the centuries introduces you to the significance of English history between the 5th-century fall of the Roman Empire and the 1485 advent of the Tudor dynasty.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 2. EPIZÓD – Roman Britain and the Origins of King Arthur2024. január 17.33 minThe collapse of Roman rule, arrival of barbarian raiders and settlers, and resistance to Germanic immigration serve as a backdrop to a tantalizing mystery. Examine the evidence as to whether the unidentified champion who temporarily halted the advance of the barbarians could have been the King Arthur of later legend.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 3. EPIZÓD – The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms2024. január 17.32 minSee how the victories of the shadowy figure possibly identified with Arthur offered only temporary stability, with the initiative soon shifting to the Germanic immigrants. Examine what we know about the societies that produced them and how their laws and culture were transformed by contact with Britain's.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 4. EPIZÓD – The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons2024. január 17.32 minFollow the parallel stories of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity and the emergence of England's seven preeminent regional kingdoms. Those kingdoms drew—depending on their location—upon two different sources of Christian influence and custom.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 5. EPIZÓD – Work and Faith in Anglo-Saxon England2024. január 17.31 minPlunge into the substance of daily life for Anglo-Saxons of all social levels, including illness and mortality, the transition from paganism to Christianity, farming, trade, or even raiding. What is clear is that there is tremendous variation in the economic and religious experience of the population.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 6. EPIZÓD – The Viking Invasions2024. január 17.32 minWatch as the one- or two-boat raids of the late 8th century grew into vast armies of 50 ships or more by the middle of the 9th. Intent on settling permanently, the invaders' influence in eastern England would be profound, with patterns of landholding, legal institutions, and even language altered forever.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 7. EPIZÓD – Alfred the Great2024. január 17.32 minExplore the career of Alfred the Great, who led the heroic resistance that kept Wessex free of Viking control. Separate fact from legend in the life of the man who would create the Wessex dynasty that would eventually become the first ruling house of a united England.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 8. EPIZÓD – The Government of Anglo-Saxon England2024. január 17.33 minGrasp the well-organized ways in which the Anglo-Saxon state became perhaps the most successful in Christian Europe, with sophisticated coinage and access to the court system by all levels. Although crude by modern standards, it functioned quite well compared to its contemporaries.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 9. EPIZÓD – The Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons2024. január 17.29 minLearn why the 10th century is often referred to as the Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons. It produces not only vernacular literary masterpieces like "Beowulf" and "The Battle of Maldon" but inspiring sermons, monastic reform, and an artistic renaissance encompassing book production, metalwork, and needlework.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 10. EPIZÓD – The Second Viking Conquest2024. január 17.30 minThe Golden Age ended as the Wessex dynasty was overturned by a second wave of Viking invaders, with Denmark's King Cnut seizing the throne and marrying the Wessex queen. See how the well-organized Wessex state functioned until Edward the Confessor restored the "legitimate" dynasty in 1042.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 11. EPIZÓD – The Norman Conquest2024. január 17.31 minLearn the reasons behind the overturning of the Anglo-Saxon regime by external invasion. This tightly focused lecture examines both the battle to succeed Edward the Confessor, who died childless, and the defeat of his successor by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 12. EPIZÓD – The Reign of William the Conqueror2024. január 17.33 minWitness an extraordinary consolidation of power as William used the military to overcome early resistance to his rule, systematically expropriated the nobility to install his own followers, and used both legal and administrative measures to fortify his position.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 13. EPIZÓD – Conflict and Assimilation2024. január 17.32 minOpen a window on what life was like in post-conquest England through a variety of sources, including the famous Domesday Book compiled at William's order. This extraordinary compilation offered the king an unprecedented survey of English landholding and thus very exact information about wealth and the ability to pay taxes.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 14. EPIZÓD – Henry I - The Lion of Justice2024. január 17.32 minExamine the reign of Henry I in a lecture ranging from his many administrative innovations—including the development of royal accounting at the Exchequer—to the legendary temper that led to the castration of all the royal moneyers discovered to be cheating the treasury.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 15. EPIZÓD – The Anarchy of Stephen's Reign2024. január 17.31 minExperience the 14 years of civil war that erupted 4 years after Henry's death in 1135, with his daughter and nephew battling over Stephen's throne - largely because England's barons had no wish to be ruled by a queen.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 16. EPIZÓD – Henry II - Law and Order2024. január 17.32 minSee how England returned to order as Henry II razed castles built without the crown's permission, consolidated justice in royal hands, and standardized its operations. But he also raced toward a fateful and ultimately deadly confrontation with his former chancellor and best friend, Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 17. EPIZÓD – Henry II - The Expansion of Empire2024. január 17.34 minWith Becket dead and martyred, Henry faced the difficult task of keeping a secure hold on his many continental dominions and managing his children's futures. Learn how the many royal titles created by his family's politically intertwined bloodlines created just as many possible conflicts.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 18. EPIZÓD – Courtly Love2024. január 17.31 minTake a pause from political intrigue to look at the culture that flavored the royal and princely courts, with a focus on the rise of courtly love, the music and poetry that were its backdrop, and the creation of a rich tradition of vernacular Arthurian romances.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 19. EPIZÓD – Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade2024. január 17.32 minView the reign of Richard the Lionheart primarily through the lens of his experience as a crusader, with implications focusing on the position of Jews in England, the development of royal administration in his absence, and the ambitions of his brother.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 20. EPIZÓD – King John and the Magna Carta2024. január 17.32 minExperience the disastrous reign of King John. His technical violation of a feudal oath to the French king led to the loss of Normandy and several expensive efforts to regain his lost land—efforts that ultimately led to the signing of the Magna Carta.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 21. EPIZÓD – Daily Life in the 13th Century2024. január 17.32 minAnother pause in the political narrative allows for a close look at life in a 13th-century English village—life that had changed materially for the better since the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 22. EPIZÓD – The Disastrous Reign of Henry III2024. január 17.31 minA key theme of the course comes into sharp focus as you see how Henry's many ill-advised foreign ventures created a never-ending need for money to be provided by England's barons. Their frustration triggered a revolt and the nucleus of what would ultimately become Parliament.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 23. EPIZÓD – The Conquests of Edward I2024. január 17.33 minExplore the reign of Henry's far more talented son, Edward I, from the perspective of both his military career—as a crusader and in Scotland, Wales, and France—and his role as a lawgiver, including greatly expanding the role of Parliament in making statute law.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 24. EPIZÓD – Edward II - Defeat and Deposition2024. január 17.32 minStep into the life of a king whose reign was one of great controversy. Edward is beset by intimations of sexually based patronage given to a favored knight, growing baronial resentment, an infamous defeat by the Scots, deposition by his own wife, and ultimately his murder.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
- 1. ÉVAD, 25. EPIZÓD – Edward III and the Hundred Years' War2024. január 17.32 minSee how repeated trade conflicts with the French drove Edward to claim the French throne. What would become the Hundred Years War produced both stunning victories and years of stalemate and plundering that left the French countryside impoverished but made the fortunes of many English knights and soldiers.The Great Courses Signature Collection ingyenesen kipróbálható vagy megvásárolható
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