Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

• Discuss popular beliefs about history
• List major events of the age of legends
• Discuss how the quarrel between faith and hope can be healed
• Explain the function of the Great Charter in the Middle Ages
• Summarize the strength of the kings described as ‘weak’ in this course
• Describe Edward the Confessor
• Outline the effects of the Crusades on England
• Define ‘Christian’ in the context of English history
• Discuss some opinions of whether ‘Christendom’ is a culture or civilization
• Identify the main causes of the Hundred Years’ or French Wars
• Summarize the main events of the War of the Roses
• Outline the primary conclusions of the English Puritans