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This is a thread to post helpful urls, links to websites and other resource information related to FROM DAWN TO DECADENCE. This section is for THE WEST TORN APART.

This is not a non spoiler thread.

This is a thread to help folks with their reading of the book and to foster a better understanding of the key ideas, events, and people introduced and/or discussed. Please feel free to add to this glossary.

The discussion for this book begins on June 1st.


Protestant Reformation:(PAGE 3)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesta...

Note: In the following postings; I have tried to also post films, television productions of the key events and/or documentaries (if they are available); there were some very brief few second google ads which sometimes are annoying on a very few of them; but they only last a couple of seconds.
From Dawn to Decadence 500 Years of Western Cultural Life 1500 to the Present by Jacques Barzun


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FRENCH REVOLUTION - (PAGE 3)

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #1:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4ectu...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #2:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2klTH...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #3:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWleYX...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL- #4:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbDGS6...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #5:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xyj6Kl...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #6:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCvOBZ...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL- #7:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTdk01...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #8:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtpMs8...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvzqZ2...

THE FRENCH REVOLUTION - HISTORY CHANNEL - #10:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIz86...

WIKIPEDIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_R...




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THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - (PAGE 3)

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - PART ONE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMGrIw...

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - PART TWO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdpEaP...

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - PART THREE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mReH_v...

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - PART FOUR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LChZ08...

RUSSIAN REVOLUTION - PART FIVE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9QWx-...

WIKIPEDIA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_...



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THE OCCIDENT (PAGE 3)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_...



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LUTHER (PAGE 4)

MARTIN LUTHER: DRIVEN TO DEFIANCE:

PBS:

PART ONE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHOSi1...

PART TWO: RELUCTANT REVOLUTIONARY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni1gup...

TRIAL OF MARTIN LUTHER:

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/proje...

95 PROPOSITIONS:

http://www.iclnet.org/pub/resources/t...

GUTENBERG'S MOVEABLE TYPE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-BEI_...



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STEPHEN FRY AND THE GUTENBERG PRESS (PART ONE):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zqgs4...

STEPHEN FRY AND THE GUTENBERG PRESS (PART TWO):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TxwWp...

STEPHEN FRY AND THE GUTENBERG PRESS (PART THREE):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-r906...

STEPHEN FRY AND THE GUTENBERG PRESS (PART FOUR):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GDysL...

STEPHEN FRY AND THE GUTENBERG PRESS (PART FIVE):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLxK5y...

STEPHEN FRY AND THE GUTENBERG PRESS (PART SIX):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=084fEC...



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LUCAS CRANACH, THE ELDER (PAGE 4)

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/bio/...



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ALBRECHT DURER: (PAGE FOUR)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTaKSF...



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THE COMING OF THE BOOK BY LUCIEN FEBVRE AND JEAN MARTIN (PAGE 5)

http://books.google.com/books?id=9opx...



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THE IMITATION OF CHRIST BY THOMAS A KEMPIS (PAGE 5)

http://www.leaderu.com/cyber/books/im...



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JOHN HUSS

VIDEO - PART ONE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfA-qN...

VIDEO - PART TWO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuOaGW...

VIDEO - PART THREE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fps7C6...

VIDEO - PART FOUR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH7UAK...

VIDEO - PART FIVE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6Qub1...

VIDEO - PART SIX:

ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3OMJR0QC6o&a...



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ALBINGENSES (PAGE 5)

http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.d...



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LUTHER'S LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF MAINZ (PAGE 6)

http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/...



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POPE LEO X (PAGE 6)

http://www.pbs.org/empires/martinluth...



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JOHANN VON ECK (PAGE SEVEN)

http://www.nndb.com/people/663/000094...



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UNIVERSITY OF WITTENBURG (PAGE NINE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wittenberg



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ANGLICAN CHURCH (PAGE NINE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican



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CHARLES V (PAGE NINE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_...



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FREDERIC, ELECTOR OF SAXONY (PAGE NINE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic...



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GOLDEN ROSE (PAGE NINE)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06629...



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ABOUT TACITUS; ALSO GERMANIA (PAGE NINE)

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/hi...



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DIET OF WORMS (PAGE NINE)


http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7...

LUTHER AND THE DIET OF WORMS

FROM THE MOVIE "LUTHER" WHICH LOOKS TERRIFIC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5P7Qk...



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THE WARTBURG

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg...



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ERASMUS (PAGE ELEVEN)

http://www.greatsite.com/timeline-eng...



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CALVIN (PAGE ELEVEN)

http://wsu.edu/~dee/REFORM/CALVIN.HTM



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RENAISSANCE HUMANISM (PAGE TWELVE)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissa...



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VOLTAIRE (PAGE TWELVE)

http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/95no...



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BERNARD SHAW (PAGE TWELVE)

http://books.google.com/books?id=1bCT...



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LIVE AND LETTERS OF ERASMUS BY JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE (PAGE THIRTEEN)

http://books.google.com/books?id=JQgN...



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THE PRAISE OF FOLLY BY ERASMUS (PAGE THIRTEEN)

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z6yT...



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COLLOQUIES BY ERASMUS (PAGE THIRTEEN)

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/14031



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JOHN BRADFORD (PAGE THIRTEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bra...



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PREDESTINATION (PAGE THIRTEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predesti...



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HANS HOLBEIN THE YOUNGER (PAGE THIRTEEN)

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/...

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html...

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYFOIk...



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MELANCHTHON (PAGE FOURTEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_...



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CARDINAL CONTARINI (PAGE FOURTEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasparo_...



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GOTZ VON BERLICHINGEN AND GOETHE (PAGE FOURTEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Götz_von...



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A MIGHTY FORTRESS IS OUR GOD: EIN FESTE BURG IST UNSER GOTT (LUTHER HYMN) (PAGE EIGHTEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mighty...



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IDOLATRY (PAGE NINETEEN)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolatry

COPERNICUS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus...

HUMANISTS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanist

MARXISM:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism

JEHOVAH:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah



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INDIVIDUALISM (PAGE TWENTY)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Individu...


http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07761...


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