Product Description
Set Includes
Christendom: Early Medievals DVD
Christendom: Defense of the Faith DVD
Christendom: Medieval Mind DVD
Christendom: The Reformation DVD
Christendom: Early Medievals Reader
Christendom: Defense of the Faith Reader
Christendom: Medieval Mind Reader
Christendom: The Reformation Reader
Christendom: Early Medievals Workbook
Christendom: Defense of the Faith Workbook
Christendom: Medieval Mind Workbook
Christendom: The Reformation Workbook
Lecture list
Early Medievals:
- Historical Overview of Christendom
- Benedict’s Rule and Monasticism
- Transition to the Middle Ages
- Procopius and Gregory
- Maximus the Confessor
- Celtic Christians
- Beowulf
- Bede I: Early History of England
- Bede II: The Coming of Christianity
- Bede III: The Confirming of Christianity
- Lives of Charlemagne and Alfred
- John of Damascus
Defense of the Faith:
- Historical Overview of the High Middle Ages
- Anselm’s Ontological Argument
- Anselm’s Monologium 1
- Anselm’s Monologium 2
- Anselm’s Why God Became Man 1
- Anselm’s Why God Became Man 2
- History of the Kings of Britain 1
- History of the Kings of Britain 2
- The Golden Legend
- Historical Overview of the Crusades
- The Conquest of Constantinople
- The Life of St. Louis
The Medieval Mind:
- Introduction to The Medieval Mind
- Aquinas’ Compendium I
- Aquinas’ Compendium II
- Aquinas’ Compendium III
- Introduction to Dante
- The Inferno I
- The Inferno II
- Purgatorio I
- Purgatorio II
- Paradiso I
- Paradiso II
- Conclusion
The Reformation:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Renaissance and Reformation
Lecture 2: Canterbury Tales 1
Lecture 3: Canterbury Tales 2
Lecture 4: Canterbury Tales 3
Lecture 5: From Premodern to Modern Times
Lecture 6: Predecessors to the Reformation
Lecture 7: Luther and 16th Century Reform
Lecture 8: International Calvinism
Lecture 9: The Reformation in England
Lecture 10: Spenser 1
Lecture 11: Spenser 2
Lecture 12: Spenser 3
Reading
1: Early Medievals
- The Rule of Saint Benedict
- Procopius’ Wars of Justinian 1.24, 4.9
- Gregory of Tours’ History of the Franks 1.36-48, 2.27-43, 6.46
- Gregory the Great’s Dialogues Book 2
- Gregory the Great’s Book of Pastoral Rule Book 1, 2
- Confessions of St Patrick, Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
- Adomnan of Iona’s Life of St Columba
- The Voyage of Brendan
- Beowulf
- Selections from Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People Book 1, 2, 4, 5
- Eihard’s Life of Charlemagne Introduction and Section 9-29
- Asser’s Life of Alfred
- John of Damascus’ The Fount of Knowledge Preface; On Heresies Section 101; On the Orthodox Faith 1.8, 2.2-6, 3.2-6, 4.11-13, 15-17
2: Defense of the Faith
- Anslem’s Proslogium, Monologium, Cur Deus Homo
- Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain
- Jacobus De Voragine’s Golden Legend: Lives of Nicholas, Anthony, Agnes, Julianna, Longinus, Patrick, George, Petronilla
- Geoffrey of Villehardouin’s Conquest of Constantinople and Jean De Joinville’s Life of St. Louis Part 1, Part 2 Chapter 1-4
3: The Medieval Mind
- Aquinas’ Compendium Chapter 1-15, 72-83, 103-107, 114-117, 127-130, 142-157, 172-184, 241-246
- Dante’s Divine Comedy
4: The Reformation
Texts and Excerpts Included in this Volume:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)
Boniface VIII, Clericis Laicos (1296) & Unam Sanctam (1302)
Marsilius of Padua, Defensor Pacis
The Council of Constance, Sacrosancta (1414) & Frequens (1417)
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Julius Exclusus (1517)
Martin Luther, Ninety-Five Theses (1517), Letter to the Christian Nobility (1520), Babylonian Captivity of the Church (1520), & The Freedom of the Christian (1520)
Leo X, Exsurge Domine (1520)
Machael Sattler, The Schleitheim Articles (1527)
Philip Melanchthon, Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531)
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536-1559)
The Council of Trent, The Decree of Trent (1545)
Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises (1548)
Zacharias Ursinus, Commentary on the Heidelberg Catechism (1585)
Church of England, Book of Common Prayer (1559)
John Foxe, Foxe’s Book of Martyrs (1563)
Field and Wilcox, An Admonition to Parliment (1572)
Richard Hooker, The Laws of Ecclesastical Politie (1586-1597)
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Amoretti, Epithalimion (1590)
WHAT is “Old Western Culture”?
“Old Western Culture” is a literature curriculum named after a term coined by C.S. Lewis to describe the fabric of ideas that shaped Western Civilization. For centuries, a “Great Books” education lay at the heart of what it meant to be educated. It was the education of the Church Fathers, of the Medieval Church, of the Reformers, and of all the Founding Fathers of the United States.
– It is a CLASSICAL EDUCATION, based on the great books of western civilization.
– It is a CHRISTIAN EDUCATION, which sees the history and literature of the West through the eyes of the Bible and historic Christianity.
– It is an INTEGRATED HUMANITIES CURRICULUM, bringing together literature, history, philosophy, doctrine, geography, and art.
– It is a HOMESCHOOL oriented curriculum, made by homeschoolers with the needs of homeschooled in mind, including flexibility, affordability, and ease-of-use.
We bring a master-teacher into your home and encourage parents to gain an overview of Western Civilization themselves by watching the video lessons with their children.
HOW does Old Western Culture work?
Old Western Culture is a video course. It is built around a master teacher, Wes Callihan. With decades of teaching experience, he guides students through the story of Western civilization. The Historians contains 12 video lessons (approx 30-40 min each).
Each lesson begins with a brief review before jumping into summary, commentary, analysis, and inter-disciplinary connections of the works covered. After each lesson, students complete the assigned readings and answer comprehension questions in the Student Workbook or online workbook.
WHY do people love Wes Callihan?
Wes Callihan is a master story teller! With a remarkable ability to communicate a passion for history and literature, he makes profound ideas accessible, relevant, and interesting. Also known for his distinctive “rabbit trailers,” forays into funny and obscure historical anecdotes, which have a way of showing up at the dinner table. (After all, rabbit trails are “hooks for the imagination and memory.”) Wes Callihan is a true classical scholar, fluent in both Latin and Greek. He lectures only from the notes in the margins of his worn copies of the Great Books. “Meet him” through THIS VIDEO TOUR of his personal library, which doubled as a mini-lecture!
Prerequisites
Old Western Culture is intended for mature and discerning students. We recommend this course for ages 14 and up. The course will deal with mature themes such as paganism, sexual immorality, battle scenes (mostly in actual reading), and classical paintings. Old Western Culture is meant to equip your child with a Biblical lens from which to process these themes. We assume your child has a working knowledge of the Bible and basic Christian doctrine.
Credits
This a robust course academically, and requires a fair bit of reading. Wesley Callihan will coach your student on how to approach the reading in the video. The average daily reading load is 30-40 pages. As an “integrated humanities” course, Old Western Culture will constantly be incorporating history, literature, theology, philosophy, art, and art history, all through the eyes of the Great Books.
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