Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The history of Spain : land on a crossroad / Professor Joyce E. Salsibury.

Publisher, Date:

Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2017]

Description:

4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm).

digital optical

laser optical

video file DVD video

Summary:

Examines how Spain has played a unique and pivotal role in Western civilization. It has historically stood at a critical crossroad of geography, cultures, religions, ideas, trade, and more. Spain's strategic location, through the centuries, has made it a magnet for multiple different peoples, and it has participated in and witnessed numerous major shifts, trends, and historical moments.

Series:

The great courses. History. Civilization & culture

Great courses (DVD). Civilization & culture.

Subjects:

Spain -- History.

Spain -- Social life and customs.

Genre:

Lectures.

Educational films.

Historical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Salisbury, Joyce E., teacher.

Teaching Company, publisher.

Other Title:

Land on a crossroad

Notes:

"Course No. 8286."

Contains twenty-four 30 minute lectures.

Course guidebook contains bibliographical references (pages 242-250).

Lecturer: Professor Joyce E. Salisbury, University of Wisconsin--Green Bay (Professor Emerita).

DVD.

Closed captioned.

Contents:

Disc 1. From stones to bronze: prehistoric Spain ; Celtic, Phoenician, and Greek colonists ; Rome conquers the Iberian Peninsula ; Christianity comes to Hispania ; Barbarian tribes divide the peninsula ; The Visigoths unite Spain -- Disc 2. Islam: the new religion ; Conflict within Islam ; The Moors and the glory of al-Andalus ; The Christian reconquista ; Medieval Spanish culture ; The Sephardim: Iberian Judaism -- Disc 3. Gypsy influences on Spain ; The growth of Catholic religious passion ; Columbus and the New World ; Conquistadors and missionaries ; The Spanish main: trade convoys and piracy ; The golden age of the Spanish Habsburgs -- Disc 4. Religious wars on Muslims and Protestants ; The 18th-century Bourbon kings of Spain ; Spain loses its empire ; 20th-century Spanish modernism ; The Spanish Civil War and Franco's reign ; Modern Spain: still on a crossroad.

ISBN:

1629974250

9781629974255

Publisher Number:

ID8286A-01

PD8286A

PB8286A

Other Number:

1001814607

System Availability:

2

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

2

Control Number:

674863

# Local items in:

2

# System items in:

2

Call Number:

GREAT DVD 946 History