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Episoder
- S1 E1 – From Britannia to Britain21. februar 202434minA discussion of how the geography of Britain has shaped political events over the centuries introduces you to the significance of English history between the 5th-century fall of the Roman Empire and the 1485 advent of the Tudor dynasty.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E2 – Roman Britain and the Origins of King Arthur21. februar 202433minThe collapse of Roman rule, arrival of barbarian raiders and settlers, and resistance to Germanic immigration serve as a backdrop to a tantalizing mystery. Examine the evidence as to whether the unidentified champion who temporarily halted the advance of the barbarians could have been the King Arthur of later legend.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E3 – The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms21. februar 202432minSee how the victories of the shadowy figure possibly identified with Arthur offered only temporary stability, with the initiative soon shifting to the Germanic immigrants. Examine what we know about the societies that produced them and how their laws and culture were transformed by contact with Britain's.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E4 – The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons21. februar 202432minFollow the parallel stories of the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity and the emergence of England's seven preeminent regional kingdoms. Those kingdoms drew—depending on their location—upon two different sources of Christian influence and custom.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E5 – Work and Faith in Anglo-Saxon England21. februar 202431minPlunge into the substance of daily life for Anglo-Saxons of all social levels, including illness and mortality, the transition from paganism to Christianity, farming, trade, or even raiding. What is clear is that there is tremendous variation in the economic and religious experience of the population.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E6 – The Viking Invasions21. februar 202432minWatch as the one- or two-boat raids of the late 8th century grew into vast armies of 50 ships or more by the middle of the 9th. Intent on settling permanently, the invaders' influence in eastern England would be profound, with patterns of landholding, legal institutions, and even language altered forever.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E7 – Alfred the Great21. februar 202432minExplore the career of Alfred the Great, who led the heroic resistance that kept Wessex free of Viking control. Separate fact from legend in the life of the man who would create the Wessex dynasty that would eventually become the first ruling house of a united England.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E8 – The Government of Anglo-Saxon England21. februar 202433minGrasp the well-organized ways in which the Anglo-Saxon state became perhaps the most successful in Christian Europe, with sophisticated coinage and access to the court system by all levels. Although crude by modern standards, it functioned quite well compared to its contemporaries.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E9 – The Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons21. februar 202429minLearn why the 10th century is often referred to as the Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons. It produces not only vernacular literary masterpieces like "Beowulf" and "The Battle of Maldon" but inspiring sermons, monastic reform, and an artistic renaissance encompassing book production, metalwork, and needlework.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E10 – The Second Viking Conquest21. februar 202430minThe Golden Age ended as the Wessex dynasty was overturned by a second wave of Viking invaders, with Denmark's King Cnut seizing the throne and marrying the Wessex queen. See how the well-organized Wessex state functioned until Edward the Confessor restored the "legitimate" dynasty in 1042.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E11 – The Norman Conquest21. februar 202431minLearn the reasons behind the overturning of the Anglo-Saxon regime by external invasion. This tightly focused lecture examines both the battle to succeed Edward the Confessor, who died childless, and the defeat of his successor by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E12 – The Reign of William the Conqueror21. februar 202433minWitness an extraordinary consolidation of power as William used the military to overcome early resistance to his rule, systematically expropriated the nobility to install his own followers, and used both legal and administrative measures to fortify his position.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E13 – Conflict and Assimilation21. februar 202432minOpen a window on what life was like in post-conquest England through a variety of sources, including the famous Domesday Book compiled at William's order. This extraordinary compilation offered the king an unprecedented survey of English landholding and thus very exact information about wealth and the ability to pay taxes.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E14 – Henry I - The Lion of Justice21. februar 202432minExamine the reign of Henry I in a lecture ranging from his many administrative innovations—including the development of royal accounting at the Exchequer—to the legendary temper that led to the castration of all the royal moneyers discovered to be cheating the treasury.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E15 – The Anarchy of Stephen's Reign21. februar 202431minExperience the 14 years of civil war that erupted 4 years after Henry's death in 1135, with his daughter and nephew battling over Stephen's throne - largely because England's barons had no wish to be ruled by a queen.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E16 – Henry II - Law and Order21. februar 202432minSee how England returned to order as Henry II razed castles built without the crown's permission, consolidated justice in royal hands, and standardized its operations. But he also raced toward a fateful and ultimately deadly confrontation with his former chancellor and best friend, Thomas Becket, archbishop of Canterbury.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E17 – Henry II - The Expansion of Empire21. februar 202434minWith Becket dead and martyred, Henry faced the difficult task of keeping a secure hold on his many continental dominions and managing his children's futures. Learn how the many royal titles created by his family's politically intertwined bloodlines created just as many possible conflicts.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E18 – Courtly Love21. februar 202431minTake a pause from political intrigue to look at the culture that flavored the royal and princely courts, with a focus on the rise of courtly love, the music and poetry that were its backdrop, and the creation of a rich tradition of vernacular Arthurian romances.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E19 – Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade21. februar 202432minView the reign of Richard the Lionheart primarily through the lens of his experience as a crusader, with implications focusing on the position of Jews in England, the development of royal administration in his absence, and the ambitions of his brother.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E20 – King John and the Magna Carta21. februar 202432minExperience the disastrous reign of King John. His technical violation of a feudal oath to the French king led to the loss of Normandy and several expensive efforts to regain his lost land—efforts that ultimately led to the signing of the Magna Carta.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E21 – Daily Life in the 13th Century21. februar 202432minAnother pause in the political narrative allows for a close look at life in a 13th-century English village—life that had changed materially for the better since the Anglo-Saxon and Norman periods.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E22 – The Disastrous Reign of Henry III21. februar 202431minA key theme of the course comes into sharp focus as you see how Henry's many ill-advised foreign ventures created a never-ending need for money to be provided by England's barons. Their frustration triggered a revolt and the nucleus of what would ultimately become Parliament.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E23 – The Conquests of Edward I21. februar 202433minExplore the reign of Henry's far more talented son, Edward I, from the perspective of both his military career—as a crusader and in Scotland, Wales, and France—and his role as a lawgiver, including greatly expanding the role of Parliament in making statute law.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E24 – Edward II - Defeat and Deposition21. februar 202432minStep into the life of a king whose reign was one of great controversy. Edward is beset by intimations of sexually based patronage given to a favored knight, growing baronial resentment, an infamous defeat by the Scots, deposition by his own wife, and ultimately his murder.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
- S1 E25 – Edward III and the Hundred Years' War21. februar 202432minSee how repeated trade conflicts with the French drove Edward to claim the French throne. What would become the Hundred Years War produced both stunning victories and years of stalemate and plundering that left the French countryside impoverished but made the fortunes of many English knights and soldiers.Prøv The Great Courses Signature Collection gratis, eller køb
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