The Story of Medieval England : From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest

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Call Number: DVD 942 Pa Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Course guidebook includes professor biographies, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, glossary and bibliography.
Lecture duration: 30 minutes each.
Disc 1. From Britannia to Britain -- Roman Britain and the origins of King Arthur -- The early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms -- The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons -- Work and faith in Anglo-Saxon England -- The Viking invasions.
Disc 2. Alfred the Great -- The government of Anglo-Saxon England -- The golden age of the Anglo-Saxons -- The second Viking conquest -- The Norman conquest -- The reign of William the Conqueror.
Disc 3. Conflict and assimilation -- Henry I, the lion of justice -- The anarchy of Stephen's reign -- Henry II, law and order -- Henry II, the expansion of empire -- Courtly love.
Disc 4. Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade -- King John and the Magna Carta -- Daily life in the 13th century -- The disastrous reign of Henry III -- The conquests of Edward I -- Edward II, defeat and deposition.
Disc 5. Edward III and the Hundred Years' War -- The flowering of chivalry -- The Black Death -- The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 -- Chaucer and the rise of English -- The deposition of Richard II.
Disc 6. Daily life in the 15th century -- Henry V and the victory at Agincourt -- Henry VI, defeat and division -- The Wars of the Roses -- Richard II, betrayal and defeat -- England in 1485.
Professor Jennifer Paxton, Georgetown University.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Outstanding course submitted by valentina on September 2, 2022, 11:06pm This course is extremely interesting and easy to follow. The instructor is brilliant, I took all her courses. I highly recommend it to those interested in history.