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The Story of Medieval

England: From King Arthur
to the Tudor Conquest

Taught by Professor Jennifer Paxton
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
LECTURE TITLES
1. From Britannia to Britain
2. Roman Britain and the Origins of King Arthur
3. The Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
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6. The Viking Invasions
7. Alfred the Great
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9. The Golden Age of the Anglo-Saxons
10. The Second Viking Conquest
11. The Norman Conquest
12. The Reign of William the Conqueror
13. Conflict and Assimilation

14. Henry I—The Lion of Justice
15. The Anarchy of Stephen’s Reign
16. Henry II—Law and Order
17. Henry II—The Expansion of Empire
18. Courtly Love
19 Richard the Lionheart and the Third Crusade
20. King John and the Magna Carta
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21. Daily Life in the 13 Century

22. The Disastrous Reign of Henry III
23. The Conquests of Edward I
24. Edward II—Defeat and Deposition
25. Edward III and the Hundred Years’ War
26. The Flowering of Chivalry
27. The Black Death
28. The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
29. Chaucer and the Rise of English
30. The Deposition of Richard II
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31. Daily Life in the 15 Century
32. Henry V and the Victory at Agincourt
33. Henry VI—Defeat and Division
34. The Wars of the Roses
35. Richard III—Betrayal and Defeat
36. England in 1485

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