The Great Courses - Late Middle Ages - Philip Daileader, Ph.D.
Category: Documentary
Narrator: Ph.D.
Tags: Documentary, Education, History
Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins Release date: 07-08-13, Were the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500an age that has come to be known as the Late Middle Agesan 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 ages major events, personalities, and developments and arms you with the e
