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Medieval Europe: Crisis and Renewal
- Narrated by: Teofilo F. Ruiz
- Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
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Summary
The Middle Ages harshly tested every aspect of human perseverance, imagination, and survival. Living conditions were squalid for almost everyone except the ruling elite, and most of the riches of Western culture were preserved in monasteries and on other continents. And into this setting came widespread famines, prolonged wars, and plagues that marked Europe's late medieval period as one of the most harrowing in recorded history. But Europe was not broken by these crises. Instead, it renewed itself and spawned fundamental artistic, religious, romantic, and political ideas that continue to shape our world to this day. This series of 16 engrossing lectures transports you to 14th-century Europe to experience a hero's tale of cultural trial, suffering, and triumph. It guides you through 200 years of stunning transformations in how people viewed themselves, how they worshiped, and their relationship to land and country, addressing key concepts that include national boundaries, church-state separation, individuality, and sovereignty - all of which find root in the medieval world.
The series is divided into three main sections that provide you a framework for understanding medieval society through detailed descriptions of what life was like for peasants, merchants, and monarchs; show you how this rigid but well-entrenched social structure was shaken to the core by crises like the Hundred Years War and the Black Death, and let you experience the glorious renewal that followed, including the spread of Renaissance ideas and styles; the creation of the modern nation in Castile, France, and England; the "rediscovery" of Plato, and the far-reaching voyages of discovery.
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- mr
- 06-12-14
Good overview
Good overview, with an emphasis on Spain which was nice. Worth a listen but I wouldn't get too excited.
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- phil
- 04-03-21
Very clear on position and terms
Teo is superb at clarifying his position and his terms. Methodologically his arguments are easy to follow. Lecture 1 might bore some lessons as it very procedural, but it's a very important lecture for understanding history as a professional discipline and for understanding Teo's perspective in later lectures.
This is not a dry technical series, these preliminaries are essential to a proper critical understanding of the material you're presented with.
I really wish more historians were this well organized.
Teo says in lecture 1 he's happy to be contacted about material in this lecture series; indeed, he gave a very insightful response to a question I posed on some seminar reading for my master's degree in history.
I noted the below from lecture 1.
Purposes of this course
1) History from below i.e. the history of ordinary people.
2) Evaluate how the middle ages forged and created new forms of spirituality, new systems of values, new ways of conceiving if space, of thinking of land, of thinking of property, of thinking of charity, of thinking of women, of new ideas of sexuality and of marriage, the creating of what is perhaps incorrectly termed 'perescution societies' in the C14 & C15
3 parts
Pt1 (E1-4) Stage: sets up the stage of how Europe looked in 1300. What were the basic economic and political structures? What were the boundaries of this world?
What we want to do is set up the geographic, demographic and linguistic boundaries of this Europe.
Pt2 (E5 -8) Great Crisis: famine of 1315-17, wars btwn France, England and Castile 1337-1453 (Hundred Years War), the Plague 1348 onwards (returned every generation until the C17), rebellion form below when peasants rose up e.g. in Florence 1378.
Pt 3 (final 8 lectures) Responses to Crisis: e.g. creation of new institutions and secularization.
What you'll hear throughout these 16 lectures is a specific kind of interpretation. I speak from a very specific methodological point of view. Most of my work has appeared in French in the journal Annales. I'm an Annalist, I'm interested in change over the longue durée, I'm interested in structural change.
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- Stephanie Forde
- 17-10-23
New perspectives
New and broad perspectives on this time period that is often presented as heavily English leaning.
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