Course guidebook includes professor biographies, statement of course scope, lecture outlines and notes, glossary and bibliography. Lecture duration: 30 minutes each.
Physical Description
6 videodiscs (approximately 18 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guidebook (vi, 203 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Disc 1. From Britannia to Britain ; Roman Britain and the origins of King Arthur ; The early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms ; The conversion of the Anglo-Saxons ; Work and faith in Anglo-Saxon England ; The Viking invasions
Disc 2. Alfred the Great ; The government of Anglo-Saxon England ; The golden age of the Anglo-Saxons ; The second Viking conquest ; The Norman conquest ; The reign of William the Conqueror
Disc 3. Conflict and assimilation ; Henry I, the lion of justice ; The anarchy of Stephen's reign ; Henry II, law and order ; Henry II, the expansion of empire ; Courtly love
Disc 4. Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade ; King John and the Magna Carta ; Daily life in the 13rd century ; The disastrous reign of Henry III ; The conquests of Edward I ; Edward II, defeat and deposition
Disc 5. Edward III and the Hundred Years' War ; The flowering of chivalry ; The Black Death ; The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 ; Chaucer and the rise of English ; The deposition of Richard II
Disc 6. Daily life in the 15th century ; Henry V and the victory at Agincourt ; Henry VI, defeat and division ; The Wars of the Roses ; Richard III, betrayal and defeat ; England in 1485.