TTC Video - The Development of European Civilization

For anyone living in the Western world, Europe is so much more than just a varied mix of travel destinations, an inspiring example of different cultures living side by side, and a set of historical events that forever altered the history of Western civilization. Europe is, in fact, as much an idea as it is a place.

Understanding how Europe evolved is essential for anyone seeking an in-depth grasp of both the history of Western civilization—and its future—for a variety of reasons:

Almost all of the West's important political, social, cultural, and economic institutions and ideologies either came from Europe or evolved in reaction to it.
To witness how European civilization developed is to understand why and how the entire Western world became who and what it is.
Finally, such an understanding is essential if you are to have a nuanced grasp of the important events that dominate the daily news.

In short, and in almost every way that matters, historical Europe was the laboratory in which the world you now live in was conceived and tested. And you'll be living with the consequences of those experiments for the rest of your life.

The Development of European Civilization leads you through the doors of that laboratory and guides you through the development of Europe from the late Middle Ages through the eve of World War II. In these 48 lectures delivered by University of Toronto Professor Kenneth R. Bartlett, whose award-winning teaching skills have been evident in the classroom, in books, and through video lectures for more than 30 years—you'll finally grasp the amazing results of that European laboratory over more than 600 years of history.

Lectures:

01. Idea and Place of Europe
02. Feudalism and the Medieval World
03. Three Orders of Medieval Society
04. Manorial Economy
05. Growth of Trade and Towns
06. Humanism and the Italian Renaissance
07. Crisis in the Church
08. Christian Humanism
09. Ottoman Threat to Europe
10. Expansion of Europe
11. Continental Reformation. Luther
12. Continental Reformation. Calvin
13. Wars of Religion
14. English Reformation
15. English Civil War
16. Thirty Years' War
17. Absolute Monarchy
18. Scientific Revolution
19. The Enlightenment, Part 1
20. The Enlightenment, Part 2
21. France in 1789
22. French Revolution
23. Age of Napoleon
24. Congress of Vienna
25. Industrial Revolution
26. Industrial Working Class
27. Capitalism and European Society
28. The Middle 'Class'
29. Liberals and Liberalism
30. Liberal Government
31. Science and Progress
32. 19th-Century Optimism
33. Nationalism and 1848
34. Unifications of Germany and Italy
35. Darwin and Darwinism
36. Social Darwinism
37. Socialism and Utopianism
38. Marx and Marxism
39. Reactions to Rationalism
40. Fin de Siècle
41. World War I
42. Treaty of Versailles
43. Disintegration of the Established Order
44. Bolshevik Revolution
45. Fascism in Italy
46. Nazi Regime in Germany
47. Europe between the Wars
48. The New Europe