The Foundations of the West
The following text was prepared in large part owing to endless demands for
my notes. The text constitutes a narrative history of the west from the Bronze Age
to the seventeenth century. Click on the icon to find the appropriate chapter.
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Chapter 1: Civilization and Western Antiquity
Chapter 2: Imperial Rome
Chapter 3: The Rise of
Christianity
Chapter 4: The Later Roman
Empire
Chapter 5: The Byzantine and
Islamic Commonwealths
Chapter 6: Northern Europe in
the Early Middle Ages
Chapter 7: The High Middle Ages
Chapter 8: The Crusades
Chapter 9: The Late Middles Ages
Chapter 10: The Renaissance
Chapter 11: The Reformation
Chapter 12: The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century
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