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22. Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000

The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210)

In the first part of this lecture, Professor Freedman discusses the emergence of the Vikings from Scandinavia in the ninth and tenth centuries. The Vikings were highly adaptive, raiding (the Carolingian Empire), trading (Byzantium and the Caliphate) or settling (Greenland and Iceland) depending on local conditions. Through their wide-ranging travels, the Vikings created networks bringing into contact parts of the world that were previously either not connected or minimally so. Professor Freedman concludes the lecture, and the course, by considering what's been accomplished between 284 and 1000. Although Europe in the year 1000 experienced many of the same problems as did the Roman Empire 284 where we began -- population decline and lack of urbanization, among others -- the end of the early Middle Ages also arguable heralds the emergence of Europe and Christendom as cultural constructs and sets the stage for the rise of the West.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction
13:52 - Chapter 2. The Vikings in England and on the Continent
21:05 - Chapter 3. The Vikings in the East
29:20 - Chapter 4. The Vikings in the West
37:09 - Chapter 5. Conclusion: What's been accomplished?

Complete course materials are available at the Yale Online website: online.yale.edu


This course was recorded in Fall 2011.

AD Harris/Murray/Peterson Discussion: London

This is the fourth video of the four-part debate that Sam Harris and I undertook in June 2018.

Sam and I met twice in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with Bret Weinstein moderating, for a third time in Dublin, Ireland, and for a fourth and final time in London, England. Douglas Murray joined the debate with us for the latter two occasions.

Video 1: Vancouver:
Video 2: Vancouver:
Video 3:
Video 4:

Sam is a well-known Enlightenment rationalist, and a prominent atheist – one of the “four horsemen,” along with Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens (now unfortunately deceased) and Daniel Dennett. He believes (1) that our ethical systems should or even must be grounded in something other than arbitrary revelation or opinion; (2) that the world of facts can and should provide that grounding; and (3) that the grounding of values in fact can occur in the absence of much perceptual or cognitive intermediation.
I agree with him with regard to point (1) but not point (2) and (3). I won’t present any of my argument here, however, because Sam isn’t here to respond, as he is in the videos.

I have also written three blog posts on the Harris/Peterson discussions, here:

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3. TBA

A note on the release of the videos, and their delay: Any event of this scale occurs because of the collaboration of many people, including, in this case. Travis Pangburn and his staff at Pangburn Philosophy, who organized and promoted the four-part debate series, and who incurred substantial financial and reputational risk in doing so (as nothing like this has been attempted before at this scale). None of us were sure at the outset whether Sam and I would manage a useful discussion, let alone four of them, or whether there would be a positive public response. In consequence, we didn’t spend much time before the debate series thinking about release (or formatting/editing) of video or audio recording. Since the events went well, however – appearing both productive and well-received publicly – we decided to move ahead with the production and release of the recordings. The team at Pangburn Philosophy completed the editing, in consequence. Sam and I agreed to allow the initial release behind Travis’s Patreon paywall, for a two-week period, after which we would post the videos for full public access on our respective video platforms, and release the audio in podcast form. The team at Pangburn Philosophy plans to use some substantial portion of what was raised through Patreon subscription for multi-language translation of their previously produced and future content (including these four debates).

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Sam Harris Podcast:

12 Rules for Life Tour: Dates, Cities and Venues:

My new book: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos:

My first book: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief:

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Bishop Barron: Word on Fire

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Bishop Robert Barron is an acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian. He is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. He is also the host of the CATHOLICISM series, a groundbreaking, award-winning documentary about the Catholic Faith which aired on PBS.

Bishop Barron is the second most-followed Catholic leader in the world on social media, behind only the Pope. He has been invited to speak about religion at the headquarters of Facebook, Google, and Amazon. His latest book is titled Arguing Religion: A Bishop Speaks at Facebook and Google, which debuted as a #1 Amazon bestseller in both the Catholicism and Atheism categories.

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