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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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  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes) Chapter 1:  Civilization and Western Antiquity

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 2:  Imperial Rome

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 3:  The Rise of Christianity

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 4:  The Later Roman Empire

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 5:  The Byzantine and Islamic Commonwealths

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 6:  Northern Europe in the Early Middle Ages

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 7:  The High Middle Ages

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 8:  The Crusades

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 9: The Late Middles Ages 

  otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 10:  The Renaissance

otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes) Chapter 11:  The Reformation

 otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes)Chapter 12:  The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century

 otakar4.bmp (45902 bytes) Notes to the Text

 

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