Summary: This series covers history from 3500 B.C. to the 1780's. This course analyzes civilizations by looking at their geographic and political environments, their technologies, economies, social institutions, and cultural achievements. Students will look at history from new perspectives, come to understand the connections between human beings despite time and distance, and appreciate the lasting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Teaching Company 1995
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3 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 1Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 2
Call number: DVD 909 WOR PART 3
Gabriele, Matthew
Summary: Matthew Gabriele and David M. Perry take us through ten centuries, crisscrossing Europe and the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa, revisiting familiar people and events with new light cast upon them. They refute common misperceptions of the European Middle Ages, showing the beauty and communion that flourished alongside the dark brutality, a brilliant reflection of humanity itself.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 940.1 GABMorris, Marc
Summary: "Sixteen hundred years ago Britain left the Roman Empire and swiftly fell into ruin. Grand cities and luxurious villas were deserted and left to crumble, and civil society collapsed into chaos. Into this violent and unstable world came foreign invaders from across the sea, and established themselves as its new masters. The Anglo-Saxons traces the turbulent history of these people across the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 942.01 MORKreiner, Jamie
Summary: "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 206 KRESummary: Part 2 examines the biblical answers to the fundamental human questions and then traces their influence on the Western mind. This second section witnesses the transformation of philosophy from a monothetic search for explanations to a spiritual quest for meaning and understanding informed by a profound fideism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 109 GREWickham, Chris
Summary: "The millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period--one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris Wickham has taken up the challenge in this landmark book, and he succeeds in producing the most riveting account of medieval Europe in a generation. Tracking the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2016