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Dawson Period Coverage

“Cycles of Civilisation” (1922) Progress and Religion Understanding (Chapter 2) The Historic Reality of Christian Culture (Chapter 3) Age I [4500BC-2700BC]—Egypt Chap. 5 Religion and the Origins of Chapter II. “Europe and the Seven and Babylonia Civilization Stages of Western Culture” which are: Age II [2700-1100BC]—Later

Egypt and the Aegean

Age III [1200BC-800AD]

Growth: 1200-900BC—Decline of Age II and growth of new ideas

900-500BC—Flourishing of Civic Religion-Culture

Progress: ca. 6th- 5th century BC—Intellectual Awakening [Axial Age]

4th to 1st century BC—Expansion of the West (Roman Republic, Great periods in ] 1. Hellenism—the paideia Maturity: 1st century BC to 3rd 2. The Roman World—the Pax century AD—Rise of World Romana and canon law Age 1: From Pentecost to Religions— , Chap. 6 The Rise of the World Constantine (AD 325) , Taoism, Mazdean in Religions Persia

rd th 3 to 7 century AD— Flourishing of Religion- 2

Cultures—Gupta , Persia, 3. Formation of Western and Period and North and South in Eastern Christendom—the Age 2: Christian Empire in the China, early Byzantine Chap. 7 Christianity and the Rise of patristic era, monasticism, the West (325-600s) Western Civilization Carolingian Renaissance Age IV [500-1920AD] Age 3: Islamic and Viking Growth (The Middle Ages): Invasions ( to apprx. 500-750AD: Fertilization of 1000 AD) daughter cultures: India, China, Islam

9th and 12th centuries:

Flourishing of daughter cultures: Carolingian, , the Age 4: Medieval Christendom th th th , Sankara and 4. Medieval Christendom—11 (11 -14 century) Ramanuja periods in India, etc. century spread of high medieval culture, the 13th to 15th centuries: Period of universities, pressure from the disintegration—Late Middle Chap. 8 The Secularization of Mongols Ages, Sack of , Western Culture and the Rise of Mongol invasions the Religion of Progress

Progress: 14th to 16th century: Intellectual Awakening— Renaissance, etc.

16th to 19th century: Expansion 5. 16th-18th Centuries: Religious Age 5: The Reformation and of the West Division and Humanism— Christian Humanism (16th-18th Renaissance and Reformation, century) th th 18 -19 century: World global discovery, rise of modern Economic revolution science Chap. 9 The Age of Science and 6. Age of Revolution: Late 18th- Age 6: French Revolution to the Industrialism: The Decline of the 19th centuries—Enlightenment, Present (ca. 1960) Religion of Progress the Great Awakening, the

French Revolution, the

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Napoleonic Era, the Americas, 19th-20th century: Crisis of the Holy Alliance, the Industrial Industrialism Revolution 7. Disintegration of Europe (-1952)— the World Wars and loss of European hegemony and unity.

The Making of Europe Medieval Essays Religion and the Rise of Western The Formation of Christendom Culture Chap. 1 The Significance of the Part I. Introductory Western Development Chap. 1. Introduction to This Study Chap. 1 The Study of Christian Chap. 2 Christianity and the Culture History of Culture Chap. 3 The Nature of Culture Chap. 4 The Growth and Diffusion of Culture

Part I. The Foundations Part II. Beginnings of Christian Culture Chap. 1 The Roman Empire Chap. 2 The Religious Origins of the Chap. 5 The Christian and Chap. 2 The Western Culture: The Church and Jewish idea of Revelation Chap. 3 The Classical Tradition and Chap. 3 The Christian West and the the Barbarians Chap. 6 The Coming of the Christianity Fall of the Empire Kingdom Chap. 4 The Barbarians Chap. 3 The of the West and Chap. 7 Christianity and the Chap. 5 Barbarian Invasions and the the Formation of the Western Greek World Fall of the Empire in the West Tradition

Part II. The Ascendency of the East

Chap. 6 The Christian Empire and Chap. 8 The Christian Empire the Rise of Byzantine Culture 4

Chap. 7 The Awakening of the East Chap. 2 The Christian East and the Chap. 9 The Influence of Liturgy and the Revolt of the Subject Oriental Background of Christian and Theology on the Nationalities Culture Development of Byzantine Chap. 8 The Rise of Islam Culture Chap.9 The Expansion of Moslem Culture Chap. 7 The Moslem West and the Chap. 10 The Byzantine Renaissance Oriental Background of Later and the Revival of the Eastern Medieval Culture Chap. 6 The Byzantine Tradition and Empire the Conversion of

Part III. The Formation of Western Christendom

Chap. 11 The Western Church and Chap. 4 The Barbarians and the Chap. 10 The Church and the the Conversion of the Barbarians Christian Kingdoms Conversion off the Barbarians Chap. 12 The Restoration of the Western Empire and the Carolingian Part III. Formation of Medieval Renaissance Chap. 5 The Second Dark Age and Christendom Its Rise and the Conversion of the North Decline Chap. 13 The Age of the Vikings and the Conversion of the North Chap. 11 The Foundation of Chap.4 The Sociological Foundations Europe: The Monks of the West Chap. 14 The Rise of the Medieval of Medieval Christendom Chap. 12 The Carolingian Age Unity Chap 13. Feudal Europe and the Chap. 7 The Reform of the Church in Age of Anarchy Chap. 5 Church and State in the the Eleventh Century and the Middle Ages Medieval Papacy Chap. 14 The Papacy and Medieval Europe Chap. 6 The Theological Chap. 8 The Feudal World: Chivalry Development of Medieval Culture and the Courtly Culture Chap. 9 The Medieval City: Chap. 8 The Scientific Development Commune and Guild of Medieval Culture Chap. 10 The Medieval City: School Chap. 15 The Unity of Western and University Christendom

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Chap. 11 The Religious Crisis of Chap. 16 The Achievement of Chap. 9 The Literary Development Medieval Culture: The Thirteenth Medieval Thought of Medieval Culture Century Chap. 17 East and West in the Chap. 10 The Feudal Society and the Middle Ages Medieval Epic Chap. 12 Conclusion: Medieval Chap. 11 The Origins of the Religion and Popular Culture Romantic Tradition

Chap. 12 The Vision of Piers Plowman Chap. 18 The Decline of the Medieval Unity

Epilogue: Chap. 19 The Catholic Idea of a Universal Spiritual Society