Title from container. Compact disc. In container (17 cm.). The length of each lecture is: ca. 30 min. The entire program consists of 24 lectures. Lecturer: Professor Leo Damrosch. Bonus disc contains PDF course workbook.
Contents:
Decline and fall in modern perspective. The making of Gibbon the historian -- The Empire at its beginning -- The theory and practice of history -- The golden age of the Antoines -- The hidden poison begins to work -- Diocletian and the triumph of Constantine -- Enlightenment skepticism -- The rise of Christianity -- Constantine and Athanaius -- Julian and the return to paganism -- Barbarian advances and Theodosius -- East and west divided -- Huns and vandals -- Theodoric and Justinian -- The breakup of the empire -- The Byzantine Empire and Charlemagne -- The rise of Islam -- The Byzantine Empire in the 10th century -- The Crusades -- Genghis Khan and Tamerlane -- The fall of Constantinople -- The end of Gibbon's work -- Decline and fall in modern perspective.
Summary:
Unravel Gibbon's seminal Decline and Fall with an award-winning Harvard professor.
Series:
The great courses. Philosophy. Intellectual history The great courses
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.