The History Guide's Lectures on Ancient and Medieval European History

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Lecture 1: What is Civilization?

Lecture 2: Ancient Western Asia and the Civilization of Mesopotamia

Lecture 3: Egyptian Civilization

Lecture 4: The Akkadians, Egyptians and the Hebrews

Lecture 5: Homer and the Greek Renaissance, 900-600BC

Lecture 6: The Athenian Origins of Direct Democracy

Lecture 7: Classical Greece, 500-323BC

Lecture 8: Greek Thought: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle

Lecture 9: From Polis to Cosmopolis: Hellenization and Alexander the Great, 323-30BC

Lecture 10: Early Roman Civilization, 753-509BC

Lecture 11: Republican Rome, 509-31BC

Lecture 12: Augustus Caesar and the Pax Romana

Lecture 13: A Brief Social History of the Roman Empire

Lecture 14: The Decline and Fall of Rome

Lecture 15: Christianity as a Cultural Revolution

Lecture 16: The Church Fathers: Jerome and Augustine

Lecture 17: Byzantine Civilization

Lecture 18: Islamic Civilization

Lecture 19: Early Medieval Monasticism

Lecture 20: Charlemagne and the Carolingian Renaissance

Lecture 21: Feudalism and the Feudal Relationship

Lecture 22: European Agrarian Society: Manorialism

Lecture 23: Medieval Society: The Three Orders

Lecture 24: The Medieval World View

Lecture 25: The Holy Crusades

Lecture 26: The 12th Century Renaissance

Lecture 27: Heretics, Heresies and the Church

Lecture 28: Aquinas and Dante

Lecture 29: Satan Triumphant: The Black Death

Lecture 30: In the Wake of the Black Death

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Lecture 1: Renaissance Portraits

Lecture 2: The Age of Discovery

Lecture 3: The Protestant Reformation: Luther and Calvin

Lecture 4: The Impact of Luther and the Radical Reformation

Lecture 5: The Catholic Reformation

Lecture 6: Europe in the Age of Religious Wars, 1560-1715

Lecture 7: The English Civil War

Lecture 8: Political Theory, 1660-1715

Lecture 9: France in the 17th Century

Lecture 10: The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1600

Lecture 11: The Scientific Revolution, 1600-1642

Lecture 12: The Scientific Revolution, 1642-1730

Lecture 13: The New Intellectual Order: Man, Nature and Society

Lecture 14: A Century of Genius: Art, Philosophy and Drama

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Lecture 1: Modern European Intellectual History: An Introduction

Lecture 2: The Medieval World View (1)

Lecture 3: The Medieval World View (2)

Lecture 4: The Medieval Synthesis and the Renaissance Discovery of Man

Lecture 5: The Medieval Synthesis Under Attack: Savonarola and the Protestant Reformation

Lecture 6: The Medieval Synthesis and the Secularization of Human Knowledge: The Scientific Revolution, 1543-1642 (1)

Lecture 7: The Medieval Synthesis and the Secularization of Human Knowledge: The Scientific Revolution, 1642-1730 (2)

Lecture 8: The New Intellectual Order: Man, Nature and Society

Lecture 9: Écrasez l'infâme!: The Triumph of Science and the Heavenly City of the 18th Century Philosophe

Lecture 10: The Vision of Human Progress: Vico, Gibbon and Condorcet

Lecture 11: The Origins of the French Revolution

Lecture 12: The French Revolution: The Moderate Stage, 1789-1792

Lecture 13: The French Revolution: The Radical Stage, 1792-1794

Lecture 14: The Language of Politics: England and the French Revolution

Lecture 15: Europe and the Superior Being: Napoleon

Lecture 16: The Romantic Critique of the Enlightenment

Lecture 17: The Origins of the Industrial Revolution in England

Lecture 18: The Social Consequences of the Industrial Revolution -- currently editing

Lecture 19: The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: Early French Communists (1)

Lecture 20: The French Revolution and the Socialist Tradition: English Democratic Socialists (2)

Lecture 21: The Utopian Socialists: Charles Fourier (1)

Lecture 22: The Utopian Socialists: Robert Owen and Saint-Simon (2)

Lecture 23: The Age of Ideologies: General Introduction (1)

Lecture 24: The Age of Ideologies: Reflections on Karl Marx (2)

Lecture 25: The Age of Ideologies: The World of Auguste Comte (3)

Lecture 26: The Age of Ideologies: Charles Darwin and Evolutionary Theory (4) -- currently editing

Lecture 27: The Revolt Against the Western Intellectual Tradition: Nietzsche and the Birth of Modernism

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Lecture 1: Random Thoughts on the Intellectual History of Modern Europe

Lecture 2: Nietzsche, Freud and the Thrust Toward Modernism (1)

Lecture 3: Nietzsche, Freud and the Thrust Toward Modernism (2)

Lecture 4: The Great War and Modern Memory -- currently editing

Lecture 5: The Russian Revolution: February - October 1917 (1)

Lecture 6: The Russian Revolution: Red October and the Bolshevik Coup (2)

Lecture 7: The Aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution

Lecture 8: The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s (1)

Lecture 9: The Age of Anxiety: Europe in the 1920s (2)

Lecture 10: The Age of Totalitarianism: Stalin and Hitler

Lecture 11: Hitler and World War Two

Lecture 12: The Existentialist Frame of Mind

Lecture 13: George Orwell and "The Last Man in Europe"

Lecture 14: The Origins of the Cold War

Lecture 15: 1968: The Year of the Barricades

Lecture 16: 1989: The Walls Came Tumbling Down

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