Odyssey Of The West III: The Medieval World

Course Syllabus Lecture 1 St. Augustine of Hippo and the Confessions and City of God Lecture 2 Constantine, Boethius, and the Fall of the Western Roman Empire Lecture 3 The Germanic North: Beowulf and The Poetic Edda Lecture 4 Byzantium and the Eastern Empire Lecture 5 The Rise of Islam Lecture 6 Monasticism Lecture 7 Scholastic Philosophy and St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture 8 Troubadours and Celts in The Lais of Marie de France Lecture 9 The Matter of Britain: Chrétien de Troyes Lecture 10 Dante: Vita Nuova and Inferno Lecture 11 Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso Lecture 12 Gothic Art and Architecture Lecture 13 Late Scholasticism and Early Modern Science Lecture 14 Early Renaissance Culture