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The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest
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- 第 1 季第 1 集 - From Britannia to Britain2024年1月17日34 分钟A 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 2 集 - Roman Britain and the Origins of King Arthur2024年1月17日33 分钟The 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 3 集 - The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms2024年1月17日32 分钟See 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 4 集 - The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons2024年1月17日32 分钟Follow 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 5 集 - Work and Faith in Anglo-Saxon England2024年1月17日31 分钟Plunge 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 6 集 - The Viking Invasions2024年1月17日32 分钟Watch 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 7 集 - Alfred the Great2024年1月17日32 分钟Explore 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 8 集 - The Government of Anglo-Saxon England2024年1月17日33 分钟Grasp 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 9 集 - The Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons2024年1月17日29 分钟Learn 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 10 集 - The Second Viking Conquest2024年1月17日30 分钟The 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 11 集 - The Norman Conquest2024年1月17日31 分钟Learn 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 12 集 - The Reign of William the Conqueror2024年1月17日33 分钟Witness 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 13 集 - Conflict and Assimilation2024年1月17日32 分钟Open 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 14 集 - Henry I - The Lion of Justice2024年1月17日32 分钟Examine 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 15 集 - The Anarchy of Stephen's Reign2024年1月17日31 分钟Experience 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 16 集 - Henry II - Law and Order2024年1月17日32 分钟See 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 17 集 - Henry II - The Expansion of Empire2024年1月17日34 分钟With 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 18 集 - Courtly Love2024年1月17日31 分钟Take 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 19 集 - Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade2024年1月17日32 分钟View 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 20 集 - King John and the Magna Carta2024年1月17日32 分钟Experience 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 21 集 - Daily Life in the 13th Century2024年1月17日32 分钟Another 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 22 集 - The Disastrous Reign of Henry III2024年1月17日31 分钟A 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 23 集 - The Conquests of Edward I2024年1月17日33 分钟Explore 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 24 集 - Edward II - Defeat and Deposition2024年1月17日32 分钟Step 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
- 第 1 季第 25 集 - Edward III and the Hundred Years' War2024年1月17日32 分钟See 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.通过 Prime 免费试享观看
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