Great courses (Compact disc)

Compact discs

24 lectures, 30 minutes per lecture

In two containers (19 cm.)

Accompanying course guidebook includes lecture outlines and notes, biographical notes, and bibliography

Course No. 4631

Unabridged

Taught by Professor Dorsey Armstrong of Purdue University

Volume 1 of 2. lecture 1.

Augustine of Hippo --

lecture 2.

Ambrose, Jerome and Gregory the Great --

lecture 3.

Boethius and the Consolation of philosophy --

lecture 4.

Isidore of Seville and the Etymologies --

lecture 5.

Venerable Bede --

lecture 6.

Alcuin, Charlemagne, and Alfred the Great --

lecture 7.

Avicenna and the Golden Age of Islam --

lecture 8.

Alhacen and the scientific method --

lecture 9.

Averroes and Aristotelian philosophy --

lecture 10.

Maimonides and Jewish Law --

lecture 11.

Rashi and Biblical interpretation --

lecture 12.

Saladin and the defeat of the Crusaders

Volume 2 of 2. lecture 13.

Hildegard of Bingen --

lecture 14.

Bernard of Clairvaux --

lecture 15.

Abelard and Héloïse --

lecture 16.

Peter Lombard and the Sentences --

lecture 17.

Thomas Aquinas --

lecture 18.

William of Ockham and John Duns Scotus --

lecture 19.

Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante Alighieri --

lecture 20.

Francesco Petrarch --

lecture 21.

Lorenzo de' Medici --

lecture 22.

Christine de Pisan --

lecture 23.

Sir Thomas Malory and Le morte d'Arthur --

lecture 24.

William Caxton and the birth of printing