Sinopsis
History lectures by Samuel Biagetti. I am a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history from Columbia University; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I have recently taught courses at Columbia and Barnard College and have had articles published in Early American Studies and the Journal of Caribbean History. The world today is nothing more than the product of everything that came before; hence, misunderstanding the past leads us to misjudge the present. I will focus on the historical myths and distortions that people use today in order to explain away the world in which we live; we will cut away the stilts supporting our illusions, and we will begin with the central myth of Western history: the Middle Ages.Please see my Patreon page, https://www.patreon.com/user?u=5530632, if you want to keep the lectures coming.
Episodios
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![Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies]()
Middle Ages 7: The Later Crusades and Their Legacies
17/05/2017 Duración: 01h26minWe examine the long train of crusading expeditions of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, from the triumphs of Richard the Lionheart to the trainwreck of the sack of Constantinople. We consider the many ways that modern myths have distorted the Crusades for political purposes and erased the Crusaders' central motivation: control of Jerusalem.
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![Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?]()
Middle Ages 5: The Crusades -- Why Did They Happen?
03/05/2017 Duración: 01h09minWe examine the forces that led the Pope to put forward the far-fetched scheme of mobilizing Christian knights to reclaim Jerusalem in 1095, and briefly consider what lesson the launching of the first Crusade holds for our own world almost 1,000 years later.
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![Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages]()
Middle Ages 3: the High Middle Ages
20/04/2017 Duración: 01h36minWe examine the flourishing of the Middle Ages between 1000 and 1300, which gave us chivalry, Gothic cathedrals, epics of King Arthur, and nearly all of the romantic images that we still associate with the medieval era, even as the noose of social conformity and repression began to tighten around Europe.
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![Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages]()
Middle Ages 1: Exploding the Myth of the Middle Ages
05/04/2017 Duración: 01h17minThe beginning of a series of lectures on the Middle Ages. We start by throwing out the junk, such as the notions that medievals smelled bad and liked to hunt witches, and then look into the mystical and apocalyptic roots of the idea that history should be divided into three ages.
