Title:
The story of medieval England from King Arthur to the Tudor conquest / The Great Courses ; Jennifer Paxton ; producer, Jennifer Gray ; directors, Jonathan Leven, Wendy Scarbrough.
ISBN:
9781598037081
9781598037074
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2010]
©2010
Physical Description:
6 videodiscs (approximately 18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 203 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
General Note:
Course guidebook includes professor biography, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, timeline, glossary and bibliography.
Includes 36 lectures (30 min. each) on 6 videodiscs.
DVD.
Contents:
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 III, betrayal and defeat -- England in 1485.
Summary:
Lectures cover English historical periods from Roman times to the Tudor conquest.
Subject Term:
Added Corporate Author:
Performer:
Lecturer, Professor Jennifer Paxton, Georgetown University.
Production Credits:
Camera, Jim M. Allen, Alexis Doty, Robert Evans, Jonathan Leven, Jackson Styron ; editor, Ines I Perez-Thompson.
OCLC Number:
ocn697657610
Availability:
Eagan - Wescott~1
