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In The Story of Civilization text book, children will live through the ancient stories that shaped humanity. Author Phillip Campbell uses his historical expertise and story-telling ability together in tandem to present the content in a fresh and thrilling way.The journey continues in this second volume that picks up just after the conversion of Emperor Constantine. Children will watch the seeds of Christendom being planted in the soil of Europe thanks to colossal figures like Sts. Benedict, Patrick and Ambrose. The wonder of the Medieval world comes alive with brilliant tales of knights, crusaders, castles and inventions.The strength of the content lies not only in the storybook delivery of it, but also in the way it presents history through the faithful prism of the Church. Have you always wanted your children to learn about world history from a Catholic perspective? Here, you'll have the trusted resource you've always wanted.Did you know that:* Monks were the first to make use of clocks?* St. Patrick was once kidnapped by pirates?* St. Bernard of Clairvaux once excommunicated a swarm of flies?* The pope once lived in France instead of Rome?* A plague spread out across Europe and killed millions of people?* Knights fought with all sorts of weapons, including swords, lances, maces, and crossbows?* Marco Polo was one of the most famous explorers who ever lived? Embark on the journey now to learn of all these wonders and more!

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Publié par	TAN Books
Date de parution	09 mai 2018
Nombre de lectures	1
EAN13	9781505105766
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION
VOLUME II: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
T HE S TORY OF C IVILIZATION
Volume I: The Ancient World
Text Book
Test Book
Teacher’s Manual
Activity Book
Audio Dramatization
Video Lecture Series
Timeline
Volume II: The Medieval World
Text Book
Test Book
Teacher’s Manual
Activity Book
Audio Dramatization
Video Lecture Series
Timeline
THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION

VOLUME II: THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
FROM THE FOUNDATION OF CHRISTENDOM TO THE DAWN OF THE RENAISSANCE
Phillip Campbell
The Story of Civilization: Volume II, The Medieval World © 2017 Phillip Campbell.
All right reserved. With the exception of short excerpts used in articles and critical reviews, no part of this work may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in any form whatsoever, printed or electronic, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Cover and illustrations by Chris Pelicano
ISBN: 978-1-5051-0574-2
eISBN: 978-1-5051-0576-6
Published in the United Stated by
TAN Books
P.O. Box 410487
Charlotte, NC 28241
www.TANBooks.com Printed and bound in the United States of America -->
CONTENTS
Foreword: A Note to Parents
Introduction: The Journey Continues
Chapter 1: The Christian Empire
Chapter 2: The End of the Roman World
Chapter 3: The Age of Justinian
Chapter 4: The Rule of St. Benedict
Chapter 5: The Irish Missions
Chapter 6: The Church’s Eldest Daughter
Chapter 7: The Coming of the Moors
Chapter 8: The Carolingians
Chapter 9: The Conversion of Europe
Chapter 10: Anglo-Saxon England
Chapter 11: The Normans
Chapter 12: The Norman Conquest of England
Chapter 13: The Crusades
Chapter 14: The Investiture Controversy
Chapter 15: The Medieval Church
Chapter 16: Knighthood and Medieval Warfare
Chapter 17: Reconquista
Chapter 18: Literature of the Middle Ages
Chapter 19: Farms, Villages, and Cities
Chapter 20: Architecture of the Medieval World
Chapter 21: The Mendicants
Chapter 22: Medieval Universities
Chapter 23: The Heretical Movements
Chapter 24: Church and State Collide
Chapter 25: Avignon and the Great Western Schism
Chapter 26: Medieval Law
Chapter 27: The Black Death Strikes
Chapter 28: The Hundred Years’ War
Chapter 29: The Wars of the Roses
Chapter 30: Medieval Inventions
Chapter 31: Traders and Explorers
Chapter 32: The Fall of Constantinople
Chapter 33: The Earliest Days of the Renaissance
Index
About the Author
FOREWORD
A Note to Parents
There can be no doubt that the central claims of the Christian faith are deeply intertwined with historical events—a Christian ignorant of history is a Christian without any sense of his own identity. Nevertheless, ignorance of our past has never been more widespread among educated Westerners than it is today; despite the technological marvels of modernity, the post-Christian West has lost its memory and thus stands in danger of losing its very soul.
As with all educational problems, this crisis has its foundations in childhood education, which has moved resolutely over the past three decades away from teaching “history” in the traditional sense, substituting the social sciences and mere cultural exposure in history’s place. In many school curricula for children, the only appearance “history” makes is as a form of trivia—arbitrary facts about far-away times and places that are unlikely to make a radical impact on the young student’s understanding of the world and his place in it. Catholic children are left without a robust sense of identity as Catholics; instead, the media and prevailing culture fill the vacuum, providing students with, at best, a poor understanding of their Church’s history and of the civilizations and societies shaped by Catholic culture.
Thus there is a tremendous responsibility imposed on the Catholic parents and educators of today. I would even argue that they are tasked with providing historical training as surely as they are tasked with providing moral and religious formation. Without the former, the latter will always rest on an imperfect foundation, for a young person without a proper historical education is liable to be swept away when confronted with false or tendentious narratives or with slanders against the history of his Church.
False historical narratives are not far to seek; in fact, many of them are embedded in the fabric of our culture, saturating our minds with prejudices and preconceptions that are hostile to our Church and its traditions and hostile to historical fact. The prevalence of anti-Catholic historical narratives is especially marked in the English-speaking world, where the legacy of Reformation-era propaganda and confessional history is enduringly anti-Catholic. The crude slanders of John Foxe in his sixteenth-century Book of Martyrs gave way, over the centuries, to the more sophisticated (and more decidedly anti-Christian) rationalism of Edward Gibbon in the eighteenth century and to the casual, socially respectable anti-Catholicism of Henry Charles Lea in the nineteenth. English-language historiography is thus leavened with anti-Catholicism in a way that has unavoidably influenced English-speaking Catholics. One can detect the echoes of this tradition even today, as many otherwise fine school textbooks retain an anti-Catholic tone, even to the point of including myths that have been long since debunked by professional historical scholarship.
Outside the English-speaking world, moreover, the aggressive secularism of our time has taken a similar toll, even in countries that were devoutly Catholic in their former days. Famously, the 2004 proposed constitution for the European Union neglected to mention Christianity at all, even among the historically shared values of Europeans. Thus we live in a time of great need; parents and educators have to be able to turn somewhere for materials to educate their children on the history of the Western world.
Into this gaping breach steps TAN Books, which for decades has been fighting a lonely and increasingly desperate battle against the misinformation about the Church that dominates the press and the airwaves. Over the years, TAN has sought to publish both new works and reprinted classics on Catholic devotional life, dogma, liturgy, theology, and history. Now TAN has accepted a new challenge in response to the needs of the time: providing the materials that homeschooling parents desperately need. I can personally attest to the timeliness of TAN’s new mission; as a homeschooling father, I know how hard it can be to find materials that are trustworthy, intellectually stimulating, and engaging for children. Phillip Campbell’s The Story of Civilization series is all of the above and more. Both he and TAN deserve enormous praise for bringing this project to fruition. More so than any other academic field, history has had an unfulfilled need for materials of this kind for many, many years.
Here in volume 2, Phillip Campbell presents a sophisticated, integrated narrative of late antique and medieval history. This is no small undertaking—he explains the creation of a Christian civilization on Roman and Greek foundations, the fall of the Roman Empire in the west, and the rise of medieval Europe alongside its Byzantine and Islamic counterparts.
For many centuries, unfortunately, the Middle Ages were presented to students in a one-dimensional fashion, as a time of ignorance, barbarism, superstition, and general decline. Yet as more enlightened scholarship has recognized, the medieval period was a time of tremendous creativity and vibrancy in the arts, philosophy, theology, law, politics, economics, and religious life. In these pages, therefore, the student will discover a living, breathing medieval period in which the papacy, monasteries, universities, guilds, and mendicant orders exercised a formative role alongside the perennial endurance of older ideals inherited from classical antiquity. King and peasant, monk and crusader, heretic and sinner all find their place here, on the eve of the Age of Discovery and the dawn of the early modern era.
Brendan J. McGuire, PhD
Associate Professor of History, Christendom College
INTRODUCTION
The Journey Continues
Have you ever read a story that was divided up into several different volumes? Perhaps you have journeyed through Middle Earth with J. R. R. Tolkien in his epic trilogy, The Lord of the Rings , or visited Narnia with C. S. Lewis in his seven-volume series, The Chronicles of Narnia . Or maybe you’ve seen the movies from the Star Wars franchise. These are all examples of one long story broken up into smaller parts.
The story of history, the story of our civilization, works much the same way. Although it is a long story with lots of different people, scenes, places, and events, it is still just one long narrative. But because it is so long, it helps to break the story up into smaller sections, or volumes.
What you have here is the second volume in The Story of Civilization . Through this book, your journey through the past continues. We last left off with the Roman emperor Constantine and his battle against the forces of Maxentius on the banks of the Tiber River in the year 312 A.D. Here, Constantine, who at the time was a pagan ruler, had a dream the night before battle where he saw the Chi-Rho symbol—a symbol for the Christian God. Below this, he saw the words “In this sign, conquer.” Constantine had all his soldiers paint the Chi-Rho on their shields and marched them into battle. His forces won, prompting him to convert to Christianity. This was one of the most important moments in the history of mankind because from there, Constantine would go on to pass the Edict of Milan in 313, which made Christianity legal.
Before Constantine, we went back a long way, all the way to the earliest nomads and through the ancient kingdoms of Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, and Greece. We also told the story of the Israelites, whom so much of the Old Testament is fo