Odyssey of the West: IVa classic education through the great books : toward Enlightenment

Lecture 1. Machiavelli: The Prince

Lecture 2. Northern humanism

Lecture 3. The northern Renaissance in art

Lecture 4. The Italian High Renaissance in art

Lecture 5. The Reformation

Lecture 6. Exploration, The Hapsburg Empire and the Catholic Reformation; The golden age of Spain

Lecture 7. The wars of religion and Montaigne

Lecture 8. Shakespeare: King Lear

Lecture 9. Shakespeare: The Tempest

Lecture 10. Bacon and Descartes

Lecture 11. The scientific revolution

Lecture 12. The Dutch golden age

Lecture 13. Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan

Lecture 14. John Locke: Second Treatise on Government.