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The Late Middle Ages

By: Philip Daileader, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Philip Daileader
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The Late Middle Ages - the two centuries from c. 1300 to c. 1500 - might seem like a distant era, but students of history are still trying to reach a consensus about how it should be interpreted. Was it an era of calamity or rebirth? Was it still clearly medieval or the period in which humanity took its first decisive steps into modernity?

These 24 provocative lectures introduce you to the age's major events, personalities, and developments, and arms you with the essentials you need to form your own ideas about this age of extremes - an age that, according to Professor Daileader, "experiences disasters and tragedies of such magnitude that those who survive them cannot remember the like, and doubt that subsequent generations will be capable of believing their descriptions.

"You'll look at the Black Death, the carnage of frequent wars, and the religious turmoil we associate with the Middle Ages." But you'll also look at the beginning of the intellectual and cultural movement known as Humanism, which planted the seeds of modernity. Humanism's precepts, which hearkened back to the moral inspiration inherent in classical artistic values, humans have an enormous capacity for goodness, for creativity, even for the achievement of happiness.

But these were hardly the only forces that tug modern-day historians in multiple directions. The Middle Ages was also a period when the persisting legacy of knights, serfs, and castles coexisted with the cannons and muskets newly made possible by gunpowder. With so many contradictions, it's no wonder that historians have differed widely on how to judge this era-debating even when it ended and modernity began.

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Great!

An easy way to learn from our history. It is a complete set. I recommend to listen to the three courses.

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Just great

I really enjoyed this, will be looking at all the great courses lectures - so much better than studying history at school.

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Informative, engaging, very easy to follow

This was a good course. It covered areas I am already familiar with and yet the content felt fresh because it was very well written and very well delivered. The pace was also perfect - quite relaxed and yet my attention never wandered. I have already recommended this to people and will continue to do so.

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Daileader Nails It Again

Punchy interesting witty stimulating and full of facts. Phil you keep putting it out and I'll keep listening!

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One of the Best

Of the many lectures series I have listened to this is one of the best.

Great delivery and the right level of subject detail for the European late middle ages.

Thoroughly recommended if you are interested in this period.

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Very interesting

Highly recommended - I really enjoyed these lectures which illuminate a period of time not immediately attractive to our present day

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Fascinating and enlightening.

I have just finished all three of prof. Daileader's Middle Ages courses. For me, one theme stood out again and again: Religion has always been the source of so much conflict, violence and intellectual repression. Anyone following these courses will be forever grateful that they were not born into such times.

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Very good.

This lecturer has improved through the series and this one is the best. The story is very interesting, genuinely interesting tangents and explores the reason behind the different changes. I particularly like the fact he does not focus on any particular country, just to where the most change is at the time. Easy to listen to and enjoyable.

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A slightly weaker finish to the trilogy

Having listened to and thoroughly enjoyed the first two of Prof Daileader's three courses on the Middle Ages I had very high hopes of this, the concluding part of the trilogy but I found it a slightly down note to end. My suspicion is that this is not really the professor's preferred period and that came across in a course that seemed to skate the subject where the previous ones really mined into the earlier periods.

It is still a worthwhile listen with much of interest but I found I was less engaged than in the first two and that the whole course didn't really knit together as I would have liked.

In summary, worth a listen but not up to the usual standards.

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Excellent trilogy

this trilogy of middle ages is so informative and thorough and fascinating. one of the most rewarding ive listened to and I intend to relisten to all some day.

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