This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe Sistine Chapel in the Vatican contains some of the greatest art in the world.
From the Heroic Years of the Dutch
This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionEvents followed one another rapidly after the rising of the Netherlanders in 1566.
Early Renaissance
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThe new birth or resurrection known as the "Renaissance" is usually considered to
Council of Trent Adjourns
Time: December 4, 1563Place: Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Trent (modern Trento), ItalyThe Protestant Reformation had left the Pope’s Catholic
The Gracchi and Their Reforms
This series has two easy 5 minute installments. IntroductionCornelia, whose father was Scipio Africanus, preferred to be called "Mother of the
Galileo Recants
This series has three easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionFrom Socrates to Galileo, as from the Church's early martyrs to its latest victims,
The Trial and Burning of Jan Huss
This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionAmong the heralds of the Reformation, John Wycliffe, the English Protestant who
Pestalozzi’s Method of Education
This series has five easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionModern education began when Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established his experimental
Syracuse Defeats Athens
This series has seven easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionThat great writer of the history of the Romans, Thomas Arnold, says of the defeat