Season
- Season 1 1989-01-01
Episode
- Episode 1: The Dawn of History
- Episode 2: The Ancient Egyptians
- Episode 3: Mesopotamia
- Episode 4: From Bronze to Iron
- Episode 5: The Rise of Greek Civilization
- Episode 6: Greek Thought
- Episode 7: Alexander the Great
- Episode 8: The Hellenistic Age
- Episode 9: The Rise of Rome
- Episode 10: The Roman Empire
- Episode 11: Early Christianity
- Episode 12: The Rise of the Church
- Episode 13: The Decline of Rome
- Episode 14: The Fall of Rome
- Episode 15: The Byzantine Empire
- Episode 16: The Fall of Byzantium
- Episode 17: The Dark Ages
- Episode 18: The Age of Charlemagne
- Episode 19: The Middle Ages
- Episode 20: The Feudal Order
- Episode 21: Common Life in the Middle Ages
- Episode 22: Cities and Cathedrals of the Middle Ages
- Episode 23: The Late Middle Ages
- Episode 24: The National Monarchies
- Episode 25: Renaissance & the Age of Discovery
- Episode 26: Renaissance & the New World
- Episode 27: The Reformation
- Episode 28: The Rise of the Middle Class
- Episode 29: The Wars of Religion
- Episode 30: The Rise of the Trading Cities
- Episode 31: The Age of Absolutism
- Episode 32: Absolutism and the Social Contract
- Episode 33: The Enlightened Despots
- Episode 34: The Enlightenment
- Episode 35: The Enlightenment and Society
- Episode 36: The Modern Philosophers
- Episode 37: The American Revolution
- Episode 38: The American Republic
- Episode 39: The Death of the Old Regime
- Episode 40: The French Revolution
- Episode 41: The Industrial Revolution
- Episode 42: The Industrial World
- Episode 43: Revolution and Romantics
- Episode 44: The Age of the Nation-States
- Episode 45: A New Public
- Episode 46: Fin de Siècle
- Episode 47: The First World War and the Rise of Fascism
- Episode 48: The Second World War
- Episode 49: The Cold War
- Episode 50: Europe and the Third World
- Episode 51: The Technological Revolution
- Episode 52: Toward the Future
The Western Tradition Season 1 Renaissance & the Age of Discovery
Covering the ancient world through the age of technology, this illustrated lecture by Eugen Weber presents a tapestry of political and social events woven with many strands — religion, industry, agriculture, demography, government, economics, and art. A visual feast of over 2,700 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art portrays key events that shaped the development of Western thought, culture, and tradition.
