Odyssey of the West. a classic education through great books III The medieval world

Shutt, Timothy Baker. (Added Author). Madden, Thomas F. (Added Author). Potkay, Monica Brzezinski. (Added Author).

Summary: This course is an interdisciplinary series of connected lectures delivered by eminent scholars from several colleges and universities. The lectures draw upon the resources of history, philosophy, literary study, art history, religious studies, political science, and the history of science and technology in hopes of engaging discussions that, over the course of forty centuries have made Western culture what it is.

Record details

ISBN: 9781456103224
Physical Description: electronic resource
access
remote
1 sound file (ca. 8 hr.) : digital.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books ; [Prince Frederick, Md.] : [Distributed by] OneClick Digital, 2011, p2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen (viewed March 3, 2011). "14 lectures."
Formatted Contents Note:	St. Augustine of Hippo and the Confessions and City of God -- Constantine, Boethius, and the fall ofthe Western Roman Empire -- The Germantic North: Beowulf and The Poetic Edda -- Byzantium and the Eastern Empire -- The rise of Islam -- Monasticism -- Scholastic Philosophy and St. Thomas Aquinas -- Troubadours and Celts in The Lais of Marie de France -- The matter of Britain: Chrétien de Troyes -- Dante: Vita Nuova and Inferno -- Dante: The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso -- Gothic art and architecture -- Late Scholasticism and Early Modern Science -- Early Renaissance culture.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to subscribing institutions.
Participant or Performer Note:	Lectures delivered by: Timothy B. Shutt, Thomas F. Madden, and Monica Brzezinski Potkay.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires OneClick Digital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA.