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1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 45 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Modern scholar.
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Lecture given by Thomas F. Madden. |
| Summary |
An award-winning, widely recognized expert on pre-modern history, Professor Thomas F. Madden concludes this two-part series on the medieval world. In this course, we will see the error of the commonly held assumption that the "Dark Ages" was a time of superstition, ignorance, and violence. Rather than a time of darkness, the Middle Ages saw extraordinary innovation, invention, and cultural vitality. It was the Middle Ages that gave us universities, vernacular literature, and the extraordinary beauty of Gothic architecture. To study the medieval world, then, is not only to study a time that has passed away. It is to study the birth of a new culture that would mature into the modern West. Whether we know it or not, the world we live in today is itself the product of the Middle Ages-not "Dark," but remarkably bright. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Middle Ages.
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Civilization, Medieval.
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Middle Ages -- Social life and customs.
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Church history -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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World politics -- To 1900.
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| Added Author |
Madden, Thomas F..
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781456112257 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1456112252 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT13537428 |
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