TTC - The Late Middle Ages - Philip Daileader

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Were the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500—an age that has come to be known as the Late Middle Ages—an era of calamity or an era of rebirth? Should we look on this time as still clearly medieval or as one in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity? Was it a period as distant from us as it appears, or was it closer than we suspect? Students of history are still trying, even after so many centuries, to reach anything approaching a consensus on the answers to these questions.

Ponder the many contradictions on your own and you may be frustrated by inconclusive answers. Instead, let Professor Philip Daileader be your guide and set you on the path to answers with The Late Middle Ages, the final course in his excellent trilogy that began with The Early Middle Ages and The High Middle Ages.

This provocative 24-lecture course introduces you to the age's major events, personalities, and developments and arms you with the essentials you need to form your own ideas about this age of extremes—an age that, according to Professor Daileader, "experiences disasters and tragedies of such magnitude that those who survive them cannot remember the like, and doubt that subsequent generations will be capable of believing their descriptions."

24 Lectures
30 minutes / lecture

1  Late Middle Ages—Rebirth, Waning, Calamity? 
2  Philip the Fair versus Boniface VIII 
3  Fall of the Templars and the Avignon Papacy 
4  The Great Papal Schism 
5  The Hundred Years War, Part 1 
6  The Hundred Years War, Part 2 
7  The Black Death, Part 1 
8  The Black Death, Part 2 
9  Revolt in Town and Country 
10 William Ockham 
11 John Wycliffe and the Lollards 
12 Jan Hus and the Hussite Rebellion 
13 Witchcraft 
14 Christine de Pizan and Catherine of Siena 
15 Gunpowder 
16 The Printing Press 
17 Renaissance Humanism, Part 1 
18 Renaissance Humanism, Part 2 
19 The Fall of the Byzantine Empire 
20 Ferdinand and Isabella 
21 The Spanish Inquisition 
22 The Age of Exploration 
23 Columbus and the Columbian Exchange 
24 When Did the Middle Ages End?