S1:E31 – Vikings Assault Europe and Create a New World

The Actions and Effects of the Viking Assault on Northern Europe - from War, to Culture, to Trade

Episode Notes

The Swedes Attack the East, the Danes and Norse Attack the West, the Roman World Breaks up // The Norse settle in France and Sicily and go on Crusade // The Atlantic World is Tied Together by Longships // Icelandic Poets are Punk + Heavy Metal from the Land of the Ice and Snow

S1:E32 – Culture, Education and Gender in the European Middle Ages

Episode Notes

Women's Roles in Urban and Rural Europe // Education and Trust: It is Known // Universities, Priests, and Plato //

S1:E33 – Art - Breakthroughs and Reform in Renaissance Europe

Comparing Medieval and Renaissance Artistic differences

Episode Notes

Symbolism // Religion // Representation // Perspective // Proportion // The Classical World Recreated // Movement-Biology-Medicine and the New World of Knowledge

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