The late Middle Ages. [Part 1 of 2]

Prof. Daileader discusses major developments, leaders, and accomplishments in the history of Europe from about 1300 to 1500 A.D. Abstract: Prof. Daileader discusses major developments, leaders, and accomplishments in the history of Europe from about 1300 to 1500 A.D Were the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500 - an age that has come to be known as the Late Middle Ages - an era of calamity or an era of rebirth? Should we look on this time as still clearly medieval or as one in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity? Was it a period as distant from us as it appears, or was it closer than we suspect? Students of history are still trying, even after so many centuries, to reach anything approaching a consensus on the answers to these questions. Ponder the many contradictions on your own and you may be frustrated by inconclusive answers. Instead, let Professor Philip Daileader be your guide and set you on the path to answers with The Late Middle Ages, the final course in his excellent trilogy that began with The Early Middle Ages and The High Middle Ages. This provocative 24-lecture course introduces you to the age's major events, personalities, and developments and arms you with the essentials you need to form your own ideas about this age of extremes - an age that, according to Professor Daileader, "experiences disasters and tragedies of such magnitude that those who survive them cannot remember the like, and doubt that subsequent generations will be capable of believing their descriptions." Content: Disc 1: Lecture 1. Late Middle Ages, rebirth, waning, calamity? -- Lecture 2. Philip the Fair versus Boniface VIII -- Lecture 3. Fall of the Templars and the Avignon Papacy -- Lecture 4. The great papal schism -- Lecture 5. The Hundred Years War, part 1 -- Lecture 6. The Hundred Years War, part 2 -- Disc 2: Lecture 7. The black death, part 1 -- Lecture 8. The black death, part 2 -- Lecture 9. Revolt in town and country -- Lecture 10. William Ockham -- Lecture 11. John Wycliffe and the Lollards -- Lecture 12. Jan Hus and the Hussite rebellion.