The Renaissance, the Reformation and the rise of nations
(CD + Book)

pt. 1. lecture 1. Crisis of the 14th century ; lecture 2. The Hundred Years War and the church in crisis ; lecture 3. The origins of the Italian Renaissance ; lecture 4. The birth of civic humanism ; lecture 5. Humanist thought ; lecture 6. Renaissance Florence ; lecture 7. Florentine politics and society ; lecture 8. The history of Florence ; lecture 9. The Italian state system ; lecture 10. The age of discovery ; lecture 11. Inflation and new monarchy ; lecture 12. Renaissance art --

pt. 2. lecture 13. The church on the eve of the Reformation ; lecture 14. The church on the eve continued ; lecture 15. Northern humanism ; lecture 16. Martin Luther ; lecture 17. The Reformation begins ; lecture 18. The progress of the Reformation in Germany ; lecture 19. German politics and society ; lecture 20. Imperial politics and international war ; lecture 21. The Reformation beyond Germany

Zwingli ;

lecture 22. The radical Reformation ; lecture 23. The radical Reformation continued ; lecture 24. Calvin and Calvinism --

pt. 3. lecture 25. The English Reformation ; lecture 26. The birth of Anglicanism ; lecture 27. The Catholic counter-reformation ; lecture 28. Loyola and the Society of Jesus ; lecture 29. Religious politics and religious war ; lecture 30. Religious war in France 1562-98 ; lecture 31. The Dutch revolt ; lecture 32. The course of the revolt ; lecture 33. The Thirty Years War ; lecture 34. Climax of war ; lecture 35. The 17th century

crisis and transition ;

lecture 36. Economic change in the 17th century --

pt. 4. lecture 37. The rise of absolutism in France ; lecture 38. Louis XIV ; lecture 39. Absolutism in Germany ; lecture 40. The Spanish monarchy ; lecture 41. The Dutch republic ; lecture 42. Constitutional monarchy in England ; lecture 43. The English Civil War ; lecture 44. Cromwell and the glorious revolution ; lecture 45. The scientific revolution

the old science ;

lecture 46. Preparing for change ; lecture 47. The revolution under way ; lecture 48. The early enlightenment 1680-1715.