Timothy Shutt

These lectures address - in chronological sequence - a series of major works that have shaped the ongoing development of Western thought both in...

By near universal agreement, Dante's Divine Comedy stands very high among the greatest literary works ever written. The Commedia is about the...

Our purpose in this course will be to examine the foundations of Western Civilization in antiquity. Through literature that has survived the ages we...

C S Lewis produced a body of work as diverse as it is beloved. He is known the world over for his cherished Chronicles of Narnia, but he is also the...

It is during the Middle Ages that modern Europe, indeed, modern Western culture as we know it, comes to be. Classical Mediterranean culture drew from ...

From the very outset in the West - from the time of Homer himself in about 750 BCE - the epic has been the most highly regarded of literary genres....

This course addresses three wars fought in antiquity, each of which had - even two thousand years and more later - a decisive effect in shaping our...