Odyssey of the West a classic education through the great books III The medieval world /
"Part three is a richly detailed look at St. Augustine, Beowulf, St. Thomas Aquinas, Aurthurian legends, Dante, Gothic art, and other highlights of the period. Through the course of these lectures, it becomes apparent that the 'dark' ages were in fact a time of immense achievement, an...
| Main Author: | Shutt, Timothy Baker. |
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| Other Authors: | Madden, Thomas F. (Speaker), Potkay, Monica Brzezinski. (Speaker) |
| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Prince Frederick, MD :
Recorded Books,
p2007.
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| Series: |
Modern scholar.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- lecture 1. St. Augustine of Hippo and the Confessions and City of God
- lecture 2. Constantine, Boethius, and the fall of the western Roman Empire
- lecture 3. The Germanic north : Beowulf and The Poetic Edda
- lecture 4. Byzantium and the eastern empire
- lecture 5. The rise of Islam
- lecture 6. Monasticism
- lecture 7. Scholastic philosophy and St. Thomas Aquinas
- lecture 8. Troubadours and Celts in The Lais of Marie de France
- lecture 9. The matter of Britain : Chrétien de Troyes
- lecture 10. Dante : Vita Nuova and Inferno
- lecture 11. Dante : The Divine Comedy : Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
- lecture 12. Gothic art and architecture
- lecture 13. Late Scholasticism and early modern science
- lecture 14. Early Renaissance culture.