Foundations of Western Civilization

48 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture

Course No. 370

Taught by Thomas F. X. Noble

University of Notre Dame
Ph.D., Michigan State University


Course Lecture Titles


01-01 "Western," "Civilization," and "Foundations"
02-01 History Begins at Sumer
03-01 Egypt - The Gift of the Nile
04-01 The Hebrews - Small States and Big Ideas
05-01 A Succession of Empires
06-01 Wide-Ruling Agamemnon
07-01 Dark Age and Archaic Greece
08-01 The Greek Polis - Sparta
09-01 The Greek Polis - Athens
10-01 Civic Culture - Architecture and Drama
11-01 The Birth of History
12-01 From Greek Religion to Socratic Philosophy
13-01 Plato and Aristotle
14-01 The Failure of the Polis and the Rise of Alexander
15-01 The Hellenistic World
16-01 The Rise of Rome
17-01 The Roman Republic - Government and Politics
18-01 Roman Imperialism
19-01 The Culture of the Roman Republic
20-01 Rome - From Republic to Empire
21-01 The Pax Romana
22-01 Rome's Golden and Silver Ages
23-01 Jesus and the New Testament
24-01 The Emergence of a Christian Church
25-01 Late Antiquity - Crisis and Response
26-01 Barbarians and Emperors
27-01 The Emergence of the Catholic Church
28-01 Christian Culture in Late Antiquity
29-01 Muhammad and Islam
30-01 The Birth of Byzantium
31-01 Barbarian Kingdoms in the West
32-01 The World of Charlemagne
33-01 The Carolingian Renaissance
34-01 The Expansion of Europe
35-01 The Chivalrous Society
36-01 Medieval Political Traditions I
37-01 Medieval Political Traditions II
38-01 Scholastic Culture
39-01 Vernacular Culture
40-01 The Crisis of Renaissance Europe
41-01 The Renaissance Problem
42-01 Renaissance Portraits
43-01 The Northern Renaissance
44-01 The Protestant Reformation - Martin Luther
45-01 The Protestant Reformation - John Calvin
46-01 Catholic Reforms and "Confessionalization"
47-01 Exploration and Empire
48-01 What Challenges Remain?


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