Epochs of European civilization. : Antiquity to Renaissance antiquity to Renaissance

Content: Lecture 1. Jews in the ancient world -- Lecture 2. Jews and the Diaspora -- Lecture 3. Ancient Greece -- Lecture 4. Greek science, philosophy, and culture -- Lecture 5. Rome as a city-state -- Lecture 6. Augustus and the fall of the Roman Empire -- Lecture 7. The birth and spread of Christianity -- Lecture 8. Western Christianity after Augustus -- Lecture 9. The challenge of Islam -- Lecture 10. Feudalism and western kingship -- Lecture 11. The church's bid for power -- Lecture 12. Origins of the modern state -- Lecture 13. Italian city-states and public finance: the nature of money, trade, and finance -- Lecture 14. The Renaissance. Abstract: In this course, University College London professor Geoffrey Hosking discusses the four themes that make European history different from other parts of the world: the nation-state, citizenship, the scientific method, and broadly based public finance