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- 第 季第 1 集1 - From Britannia to Britain2024年2月21日34 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集2 - Roman Britain and the Origins of King Arthur2024年2月21日33 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集3 - The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集4 - The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集5 - Work and Faith in Anglo-Saxon England2024年2月21日31 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集6 - The Viking Invasions2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集7 - Alfred the Great2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集8 - The Government of Anglo-Saxon England2024年2月21日33 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集9 - The Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons2024年2月21日29 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集10 - The Second Viking Conquest2024年2月21日30 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集11 - The Norman Conquest2024年2月21日31 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集12 - The Reign of William the Conqueror2024年2月21日33 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集13 - Conflict and Assimilation2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集14 - Henry I - The Lion of Justice2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集15 - The Anarchy of Stephen's Reign2024年2月21日31 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集16 - Henry II - Law and Order2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集17 - Henry II - The Expansion of Empire2024年2月21日34 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集18 - Courtly Love2024年2月21日31 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集19 - Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集20 - King John and the Magna Carta2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集21 - Daily Life in the 13th Century2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集22 - The Disastrous Reign of Henry III2024年2月21日31 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集23 - The Conquests of Edward I2024年2月21日33 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集24 - Edward II - Defeat and Deposition2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
- 第 季第 1 集25 - Edward III and the Hundred Years' War2024年2月21日32 分鐘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.免費試用 The Great Courses Signature Collection 或購買
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