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.