This listing is for The Great Courses The Era of the Crusades Part 2 ONLY DVD.  

12 Lectures/30 Minutes per lecture (2 DVDs)

Includes ONLY Part 2 of 3

The Crusades have been hailed as the driving force that brought Western Europe out of the Middle Ages—and condemned as the beginning of European imperialism in the Muslim Near East. But what really were the Crusades? What were the forces that led to one of history's most protracted and legendary periods of conflict? How did they affect the three great civilizations that participated in them? And, ultimately, why did they end and what did they accomplish?

* Lecture 13: Alexius I and the First Crusade

* Lecture 14: From Clermont to Jerusalem

* Lecture 15: Conquest and Defense of Outremer

* Lecture 16: Frankish Settlement of Outremer

* Lecture 17: Comnenian Emperors and Crusader Princes

* Lecture 18: The Second Crusade

* Lecture 19: The Empire at Bay

* Lecture 20: The Rise of Saladin

* Lecture 21: Byzantine Recovery under the Comnenians

* Lecture 22: A Renaissance Of Byzantine Letters and Arts

* Lecture 23: Trade and Currency in the Mediterranean

* Lecture 24: Cultural Exchange in Gothic Europe

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