Themes in European History

Lecture 1

The European  Millennium.  Now that end of the second millennium of post Christian history has been safely negotiated and we are on ...

Lecture 2

 The Revival of Europe. The Moslem, Magyar and Viking raids of the 9th Century And early 10th Century brought Europe to what was probably the lo...

Lecture 3

The Church in the Middle Ages. In the first lecture I touched upon the situation in the Church in the 10th Century, reduced to its lowest point in te...

Lecture 4

The Disastrous Fourteenth Century. I tried to make a case in the last lecture that the Middle Ages was the Age of Faith- that religion  was the ...

Lecture 5

The Renaissance. When last we met we were discussing the final years of the Middle Ages- a time of warfare, famines, pestilence, and social upheaval....

Lecture 6

The Reformation. The 15th Century was the century of the Renaissance. The two centuries to follow, the 16th and 17th Centuries, were dominated by the...

Lecture 7

The Enlightenment. Last week we were  discussing the changes brought about by Luther and other reformers in the Protestant areas of Europe....

Lecture 8

The Revolutions that Shaped the Modern World. During this course of lectures I have been trying to tease out and talk about what I think are the...

The European Millennium - Introduction

 The European Millennium. This course of lectures provides an introductionto the major issues and events in the millennium between A.D...