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At the dawn of the last millennium in the year 1000, European countries was one of the world's more stagnant parts - an economically undeveloped, intellectually derivative, and geopolitically unaggressive backwater, with illiteracy, starvation, and disease the norm for almost everyone. Yet only three generations later, all this had changed. A newly invigorated cluster of Western societies possessed revived city life, spawned new religious and intellectual activities and educational corporations, and had begun, for reasons both sacred and profane, to increase at the expense of neighbours who traditionally possessed expanded at Europe's expense. This series of 24 lectures, filled up with memorable detail, examines how and just why Europeans achieved this stunning turnaround. By its finish, you'll be able to describe and evaluate the public, intellectual, religious, and politics transformations that arranged into action this midsummer epoch of the medieval world - an epoch you should come to know perfectly through Teacher Daileader's vivid descriptions and examinations of its people, including
- the warrior aristocracy of knights, castellans, counts, and dukes;
- free and unfree peasants; and townspeople, both artisans and stores;
- its lively stirrings of religious beliefs and intellect, including monastic life and charismatic numbers like Francis of Assisi and Thomas Aquinas;
- the lives of these outside the religious mainstream, especially heretics and Jews;
- and its major politics developments and happenings, like the First Crusade, the Norman Conquest of Britain, and the granting of the Magna Carta.
