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Lecture Outlines for HIST 1121 in Microsoft Power Point Format

These are Acrobat PDF copies of the outlines used in my class lectures. You may use these freely. (You will need Acrobat Reader to open these from your own computer.) I reserve all rights to these as well as other written materials I have placed on this web site. (JOR, July 17, 2005)

I. Introduction to the Course

• Introduction to the Course and to the Study of History as a Study of Culture
II. The Origins of "Europe" as a Culture in the Judaic, Greek, Roman and Christian Cultures
• Ancient Judaism as a Basis for Europe
• Classical Greece as a Basis for Europe
• Hellenistic Greece and the Transformation of Greek Culture
• Ancient Rome as a Basis for Europe
• Vergil's Aeneid as a Study in Greco-Roman Culture
• Greco-Roman Culture and the Rise of Christianity
• Christianity as a Basis for Europe
• The Fusion of Greco-Roman Culture and Christianity (Augustine as a Study)
III. The "First Europe" as the Synthesis of Judaeo-Christian, Greco-Roman and Germanic Elements.
• The Birth of Europe as a New Culture
• Islam and Europe
• The First Europe as a Culture
• The Bonds of Medieval Society: Feudal and Manorial Life
• The Bonds of Medieval Society: The Church
• Synthesis as a Motif in Medieval Civilization with an Emphasis on Dante's Divine Comedy
• The Medieval Synthesis in Art and Architecture (A film/lecture by John Canaday)
IV. Toward the Second "Europe": The Early Modern Era as a Transitional Period.
• Search for New Authorities as a Motif
• Toward New Views of Man and the Universe
• A New Doctrine of Personality: The Dignity of Man and the Renaissance Ideal of L' uomo Universale
• The End of "Europe" as Common Spiritual Aims and Values: Martin Luther, John Calvin and the Protestant Reformation
• Toward a New View of the State: Niccolo Machiavelli and the Modern Secular State
• Varieties of the Modern Secular State
V. Review and Reflection.
• Review and Reflection

 
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