The Foundations of Western Civilization by Thomas F.X. Noble (.PDF)
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The Foundations of Western Civilization. Course Guidebook (The Great Courses) by Thomas F.X. Noble
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Overview: Forty-eight lectures explore the essential contours of the human experience in what has come to be called “Western civilization,” from its humble beginnings in the ancient Near East to the dawn of the modern world, ranging from about 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1600. The lectures begin by asking just what “Western civilization” actually is, or what it has been thought to be. Throughout the lectures, there are reflections on where Western civilization finds its primary locus at any given moment – beginning in the ancient Near East and moving to Greece, then to Rome; exploring the shape and impact of large ancient empires, including the Persian, Alexander the Great’s, and Rome’s; then moving on to Western Europe, and witnessing Europe’s gradual physical and cultural expansion, into finally the globalizations of Western civilization with the Portuguese and Spanish voyages of exploration and discovery.
Thomas Noble is the Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute and a professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. He assumed his current position in January of 2001 after teaching for twenty years at the University of Virginia and four years at Texas Tech University. In 1999, Professor Noble was presented with the Alumni Distinguished Professor award at the University of Virginia, that intitution’s highest award for teaching excellence, and a Harrison award for outstanding undergraduate advising.
Genre: Non-Fiction > Faith, Beliefs & Philosophy European History, The Great Courses
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