Pre-Owned The Era of the Crusades: Lecture Transcript and Course Guidebook in 3 Volumes (Unknown) 1565858344 9781565858343

36 award-winning university level lessons on 6 DVDs contained within 3 clamshell cases and accompanied by a 263 page course outline book. The Crusades were a force for profound change in political, cultural, religious, economic, and social life that gave birth to the early-modern age, and these changes still influence the present world. First 12 lectures examine the causes for the Crusades; the second 12 lectures deal with the first century of the Crusades from the first Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the destruction of Jerusalem in 1187. The last 12 lectures cover the last century of the Crusades, commencing with the Third Crusade, led by the chivalrous King Richard the Lionhearted. Course Lecture Titles: 1. The Heirs of Rome. 2. Byzantine Orthodox Civilization. 3. Byzantine Zenith in the Macedonian Age. 4. The Failure of the Heirs of Basil II. 5. Abbasid Baghdad and Fatimid Egypt. 6. The Coming of the Seljuk Turks. 7. The Recovery of Western Europe. 8. Kings and Princes of Western Europe. 9. Warfare in Western Europe. 10. The Papacy and Religious Reform. 11. Piety and Pilgrimage. 12. Christian Offensives in Spain and Sicily. 13. Alexius I and the First Crusade. 14. From Clermont to Jerusalem. 15. Conquest and Defense of Outremer. 16. Frankish Settlement of Outremer. 17. Comnenian Emperors and Crusader Princes. 18. The Second Crusade. 19. The Empire at Bay. 20. The Rise of Saladin. 21. Byzantine Recovery under the Comnenians. 22. A Renaissance of Byzantine Letters and Arts. 23. Trade and Currency in the Mediterranean. 24. Cultural Exchange in Gothic Europe. 25. The Horns of Hattin. 26. The Third Crusade. 27. From Jerusalem to Constantinople. 28. The Sack of Constantinople. 29. The World of Frankish Greece. 30. Splinter Empires and Orthodox Princes. 31. Ayyubid Egypt and Seljuk Anatolia. 32. Crusader Cyprus and the Levant. 33. Venice and Genoa. 34. The Mongols and the Legend of Prester John. 35. The Royal Crusaders. 36. The Passing of the Crusades.