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Epochs of European civilization, antiquity to Renaissance, Geoffrey Hosking

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Epochs of European civilization, antiquity to Renaissance, Geoffrey Hosking

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eng

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Epochs of European civilization

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59168184

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Geoffrey Hosking

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The modern scholar

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antiquity to Renaissance

Summary

In this course, University College London professor Geoffrey Hosking discusses the four themes that make European history different from other parts of the world: the nation-state, citizenship, the scientific method, and broadly based public finance

Table Of Contents

Lecture 1. Jews in the ancient world -- Lecture 2. Jews and the Diaspora -- Lecture 3. Ancient Greece -- Lecture 4. Greek science, philosophy, and culture -- Lecture 5. Rome as a city-state -- Lecture 6. Augustus and the fall of the Roman Empire -- Lecture 7. The birth and spread of Christianity -- Lecture 8. Western Christianity after Augustus -- Lecture 9. The challenge of Islam -- Lecture 10. Feudalism and western kingship -- Lecture 11. The church's bid for power -- Lecture 12. Origins of the modern state -- Lecture 13. Italian city-states and public finance: the nature of money, trade, and finance -- Lecture 14. The Renaissance

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