The Ottoman Empire

pt. 1. lecture 1. The heirs of Rome

lecture 2. Byzantine orthodox civilization

lecture 3. Byzantine zenith in the Macedonian age

lecture 4. The Failure of the heirs of Basil II

lecture 5. Abbasid Baghdad and Fatimid Egypt

lecture 6. The coming of the Seljuk Turks

lecture 7. The recovery of Western Europe

lecture 8. Kings and princes of Western Europe

lecture 9. Warfare in Western Europe

lecture 10. The papacy and religious reform

lecture 11. Piety and pilgrimage

lecture 12. Christian offensives in Spain and Sicily.

pt. 2. lecture 13. Alexius I and first crusade

lecture 14. From Clermont to Jerusalem

lecture 15. Conquest and defense of Outremer

lecture 16. Frankish settlement of Outremer

lecture 17. Comnenian emperors and Crusader princes

lecture 18. The Second crusade

lecture 19. The Empire at bay

lecture 20. The rise of Saladin

lecture 21. Byzantine recovery under the Comnenians

lecture 22. A renaissance of Byzantine letters and arts

lecture 23. Trade and currency in the Mediterranean

lecture 24. Cultural exchange in Gothic Europe.

pt. 3. lecture 25. The Horns of Hattin

lecture 26. The Third crusade

lecture 27. From Jerusalem to Constantinople

lecture 28. The sack of Constantinople

lecture 29. The world of Frankish Greece

lecture 30. Splinter empires and orthodox princes

lecture 31. Ayyubid Egypt and Seljuk Anatolia

lecture 32. Crusader Cyprus and the Levant

lecture 33. Venice and Genoa

lecture 34. The Mongols and the legend of Pester John

lecture 35. The royal crusaders

lecture 36. The passing of the crusades.

Disc 1. Sublime Porte : visions of the Ottoman Empire ; Seljuk Turks in Asia Minor ; The Islamization of Asia Minor ; Ottoman sultans of Bursa ; Defeat and recovery, 1402-1451 ; Mehmet the conqueror, 1451-1481

Disc 2. Selim the Grim and the conquest of Cairo ; Suleiman the Magnificent, 1520-1566 ; Sultans in Topkapi, 1566-1648 ; The sultan-caliph and his servants ; Timariots, peasants, and pastoralists ; Trade, money, and cities

Disc 3. Arabs under the Ottoman caliph ; Christians and Jews under the Porte ; Sunni Islam and Ottoman civilization ; Ottoman Constantinople ; The sultan at war : the Ottoman Army ; Sultan and shah: challenge of Safavid Iran

Disc 4. Sultan and emperor : war in the west ; Sultan and Venice : war in the Mediterranean ; Köprülü viziers and imperial revival ; The empire at bay, 1699-1798 ; Napoleon invades Ottoman Egypt ; Crisis : Muhammad Ali and Balkan nationalists

Disc 5. Tanzimat and modernization, 1839-1876 ; Defeat and retreat : the sick man of Europe ; The sultan returns : Abdül Hamid II, 1876-1908 ; Constitutional reform, 1908-1913 ; War in Libya and the Balkans, 1911-1913 ; The road to World War I

Disc 6. The empire at total war, 1914-1916 ; Ottoman collapse, 1916-1918 ; Mustafa Kemal, Atatürk ; Casualties of war and ethnic cleansing ; The emergence of the Turkish Republic ; Nation-states, Islam, and the Ottoman legacy.