The Great Courses - History of the Vikings
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Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero, 1970
Episodios: 36
Duración de temporada: NAN horas
Última emisión: 01 de enero, 1970
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Capítulo 1: Episodio 1
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Hostile Christian sources demonize the Vikings; Muslim accounts render them exotic; and recent revisionist historians downplay the impact of Norse raids. Archeological finds such as ship burials, c...
Capítulo 2: Episodio 2
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Scandinavia's landscape shaped its culture. Dense forestation led to small, close-knit communities, skill in woodworking, and to sailing as the primary means of long-distance transport. Long, harsh...
Capítulo 3: Episodio 3
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The physical evidence, expertly interpreted, paints a compelling picture of the Bronze Age in Scandinavia (2300–450 B.C.) Viking ancestors traded Arctic goods, amber, and slaves in exchange for for...
Capítulo 4: Episodio 4
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Scandinavia fed off of trade with the Celts (450–50 B.C.) importing improved cart, ship, and metalworking technology. Contact with Rome (c. 50 B.C.–A.D. 400) enriched the upper classes with fine si...
Capítulo 5: Episodio 5
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Between 400–700, as the Roman political order collapsed in Western Europe, Scandinavians poured in: Anglo-Saxons in England, Franks in Gaul, Swedish Goths in Italy and Spain, Danes in Frisia. Cultu...
Capítulo 6: Episodio 6
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Norse religion was integral to Scandinavian life. A creation myth tells of primeval frozen wastes and sacred trees. The pantheon contained gods of war (Odin), sky (Thor), and fertility (Frey and Fr...
Capítulo 7: Episodio 7
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: As a non-urbanized culture, Viking society expressed its visual genius in elaborate woodcarving and intricate jewelry, not architecture. Gods were represented by charming cult statues and contacted...
Capítulo 8: Episodio 8
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The Epic of Beowulf (c. 675–725) and The Saga of Hrolf Kraki (c. 13th century) look back to the 6th century when legendary kings of Denmark and Sweden ruled from great halls and won great victories...
Capítulo 9: Episodio 9
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Without the advances in shipbuilding that occurred in the 9th and 10th centuries, Viking success in raiding and trading would have been impossible. Viking vessels evolved from the earliest paddlebo...
Capítulo 10: Episodio 10
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Swords, bows and arrows, javelins, spears, and axes made up the Viking arsenal, but their greatest weapon was unit cohesion. Trained since youth, they were expert in winter travel and foraging, the...
Capítulo 11: Episodio 11
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: From 675–840, Western economic and political activity revived, fueled by improved agriculture, growing towns and monasteries, and renewed Mediterranean trade. But it was the need for slaves in the ...
Capítulo 12: Episodio 12
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The Carolingian Empire, which had actually conquered Germanic peoples under Charlemagne, possessed the economic and military strength to challenge the Vikings. But partition in 843 and civil confli...
Capítulo 13: Episodio 13
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Vikings raided the Carolingian Empire throughout the 9th century, disrupting trade routes and depleting imperial coffers through the extraction of tribute (Danegeld). Local vassals stepped into the...
Capítulo 14: Episodio 14
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: In 911, Frankish king Charles the Simple faced the Viking sea king Hrolf and a massive Viking fleet en route to Paris. With no money to offer as ransom, Charles offered Hrolf the land around the to...
Capítulo 15: Episodio 15
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Vikings had been merchants in England for centuries when the first Viking raid destroyed Lindisfarne in 793. Viking raids climaxed in the Great Army's methodical ravaging of southern England and th...
Capítulo 16: Episodio 16
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Many Danes settled in the northern areas of England conquered by the Great Army. In the 9th and 10thth centuries, Anglo-Danish rule brought prosperity and lasting changes in language, customs, and ...
Capítulo 17: Episodio 17
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: In 432–433, St. Patrick brought Roman Christianity to Ireland, but not Roman government. So in the Viking Age Ireland possessed great, learned, clan-supported monasteries surrounded by chieftain-le...
Capítulo 18: Episodio 18
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: In 917, Hiberno-Norse kings reestablished rule over Dublin and its hinterland, and many key ports. With Norse immigration in decline, however, they lacked the numbers to dominate the island. Cooper...
Capítulo 19: Episodio 19
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Iceland filled with settlers between 870–930. Some sought relief from an overcrowded Norway, some sought free land, and others desired freedom from the tyrannical Norwegian king Harald Finehair. On...
Capítulo 20: Episodio 20
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The rugged terrain of Iceland necessitated egalitarianism. As men left home to hunt, fish, and tend pastures, women ran the households, handled legal settlements, and even acted as delegate chiefta...
Capítulo 21: Episodio 21
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Icelanders preserved memories of their Scandinavian homeland and transmitted tales of the ancient Germanic gods through recited poems, consistent with an oral culture in which even law was recited ...
Capítulo 22: Episodio 22
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The daunting climate and the ultimate paucity of marketable trade goods prevented Greenland from becoming a viable settlement, while Vinland settlements foundered due to hostile Algonquins and remo...
Capítulo 23: Episodio 23
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: By the 8th century, intrepid Swedes had moved into the Russian forest zones, acquiring slaves to trade with Khazar middlemen that controlled the Volga. These Swedes, or Rus, braved rapids and marau...
Capítulo 24: Episodio 24
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The shift in Swedish trading activity from the Volga in the east to the Dneiper in the west was also a shift away from the Islamic world and towards a Byzantine Christian civilization that greatly ...
Capítulo 25: Episodio 25
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Prince Vladimir of Kiev's momentous conversion to Orthodox Christianity in 989 was revolutionary. The Rus adopted literacy and the Slavic language, imported Byzantine builders to create masonry chu...
Capítulo 26: Episodio 26
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: From 790–1000, a massive influx of silver led to the minting of Scandinavian coins and resulting monetized markets. Newly wealthy individuals, increasingly women, enjoyed their largess through impo...
Capítulo 27: Episodio 27
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: In a Viking-Age Scandinavia well served by the traditional gods of war, sailing, and prosperity, the Carolingian missionary St. Anskar had little success convincing the Vikings that Christianity wa...
Capítulo 28: Episodio 28
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Denmark was forged under threat from the Holy Roman Empire to the south. Responding to Henry the Fowler's 934 invasion, the pagan king Gorm the Old raided the southern frontier, securing Jutland. H...
Capítulo 29: Episodio 29
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Cnut the Great (1014–1035), along with his father Svein Forkbeard, reclaimed England for Scandinavia, but viewed himself as a pan-European king in the mold of Charlemagne. Though not remembered fon...
Capítulo 30: Episodio 30
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: At Cnut's death in 1035, his sons clashed for control while also fending off Magnus the Good of Norway. In 1066, with Cnut's sons both dead and his nephew Svein Estrithson holding Denmark, Magnus's...
Capítulo 31: Episodio 31
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Harald Finehair, a king in Upplönd, imposed his rule over Norway after defeating a coalition of jarls at the naval battle of Hafsfjord c. 875. Although his line ended in 970, another sea king, Olaf...
Capítulo 32: Episodio 32
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Converted in England, Olaf rose from a Viking raider to become a great Christian king of Norway, which he liberated from Danish rule in 1015. His heavy-handed rule led his subjects to expel and the...
Capítulo 33: Episodio 33
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: Sweden, in resources and population, seemed destined for primacy in Scandinavia, but the Yngling kings of Uppsala did not profit from the Viking expansion in the East. In contrast to Norway and Den...
Capítulo 34: Episodio 34
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: In the 11th century, distinct national churches emerged in the Scandinavian kingdoms. Christianity brought new prosperity and population growth. Cathedrals and monasteries stimulated the rise of ma...
Capítulo 35: Episodio 35
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: By 1100, the Viking age had passed. On the eve of the Black Death (1347–1351), all three Scandinavian kingdoms shared similar fiscal and institutional weaknesses. The three kingdoms were united und...
Capítulo 36: Episodio 36
Fecha de estreno: 01 de enero del 1970
Sinopsis: The course of Medieval history was fundamentally altered by the Viking Age. The feudal states of Western Europe were born. The kingdoms of England and Scotland arose. Orthodox Kiev, founded by Swed...
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