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The Triumph Of The West: A View Of The Western World's History By Historian John Roberts, Warden of Merton College, Oxford! The Complete 13 Hour-Long Episode TV Series On The History Of Western Civilization, PLUS BONUS TITLE: YOU ARE THERE: THE CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE AS EMPEROR OF ROME, The Inauguration The Carolingian Renaissance That Brought The First Rays Of Light Into The Dark Ages -- All Presented In Our Highest DVD Quality MPEG Video Format Of 9.1 MBPS As A 7 Volume Video Download MP4 Set Or A 7 Disc Archival Quality All Regions Format DVD Set! #TriumphOfTheWest #JohnRoberts #JohnRobertsHistorian #WesternCivilization #WesternCulture #OccidentalCulture #WesternWorld #WesternSociety #WesternTradition #HistoryOfEurope #Charlemagne #CharlesTheGreat #FatherOfEurope #HolyRomanEmperors #MiddleAges #CarolingianEmpire #HolyRomanEmpire #CarolingianRenaissance #StoryOfCivilization #MP4 #VideoDownload #DVD

* August 25, 2026: Updated With YOU ARE THERE: THE CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE AS EMPEROR OF ROME!


Contents:


VOLUME ONE:

1) Dangerous Gifts (Benefits and costs of Western influence)

2) A New Direction (Influences from ancient Graeco-Roman and Judeo-Christian till the present)


VOLUME TWO:

3) The Heart of the West (The emergence of Europe from the dark ages)

4) Islam: The World's Debate (Islam Vs. Judeo-Christianity)


VOLUME THREE:

5) East of Europe (Byzantium)

6) The Explorers (Age of Exploration)


VOLUME FOUR:

7) New Worlds (The New World)

8) The Age of Light (The Renaissance)


VOLUME FIVE:

9) Monuments to Progress (Industrial Revolution)

10) India: The Ironies of Empire (India before, during and after colonial domination)


VOLUME SIX:

11) The East Is Red (China in the twentieth century)

12) The Decline of the West (World Wars and Great Depression)


VOLUME SEVEN:

13) Capitulations (Third World countries learn price of dependency on the West)

YOU ARE THERE: (OLD) ST. PETER'S BASILICA, ROME: THE CORONATION OF CHARLEMAGNE AS EMPEROR OF THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (EMPEROR OF ROME): CHRISTMAS DAY, 800 (Audio Only, Christmas Day, December 25, 1949 [The 1,149th Anniversary Of Charlemagne's Coronation], 30 Minutes) -- Hypothetical news coverage of the uncertain suspense of The Coronation Of Charlemagne As Emperor Of The Roman Empire (soon known as The Holy Roman Empire, now known as The Carolingian Empire) by Pope Leo III in an episode of this classic CBS News historical drama radio series featuring the future President of CBS News Bill Leonard.


Western Culture -- sometimes equated with Western Civilization, Occidental Culture, the Western World, Western Society -- is the heritage of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world. The term also applies beyond Europe to countries and cultures whose histories are strongly connected to Western Europe by immigration, colonization, or influence. For example, Western culture includes determinated countries in the Americas and Oceania. Western culture is most strongly influenced by the Greco-Roman and Christian cultures. Ancient Greece is considered the birthplace of many elements of Western culture, including the development of a democratic system of government and major advances in philosophy, science and mathematics. The expansion of Greek culture into the Hellenistic world of the eastern Mediterranean led to a synthesis between Greek and Near-Eastern cultures, and major advances in literature, engineering, and science, and provided the culture for the expansion of early Christianity and the Greek New Testament. This period overlapped with and was followed by Rome, which made key contributions in law, government, engineering and political organization. Western culture is characterized by a host of artistic, philosophic, literary and legal themes and traditions. Christianity, including the Roman Catholic Church, Protestantism the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Oriental Orthodoxy, has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization since at least the 4th century, as did Judaism. A cornerstone of Western thought, beginning in ancient Greece and continuing through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, is the idea of rationalism in various spheres of life developed by Hellenistic philosophy, scholasticism and humanism. Empiricism later gave rise to the scientific method, the scientific revolution, and the Age of Enlightenment. Western culture continued to develop with the Christianisation of European society during the Middle Ages, the reforms triggered by the Renaissance of the 12th century and 13th century under the influence of the Islamic world via Al-Andalus and Sicily (including the transfer of technology from the East, and Latin translations of Arabic texts on science and philosophy), and the Italian Renaissance as Greek scholars fleeing the fall of the Byzantine Empire after the Muslim conquest of Constantinople brought classical traditions and philosophy. Medieval Christianity is credited with creating the modern university, the modern hospital system, scientific economics, and natural law (which would later influence the creation of international law). Christianity played a role in ending practices common among pagan societies, such as human sacrifice, slavery, infanticide and polygamy. The globalization by successive European colonial empires spread European ways of life and European educational methods around the world between the 16th and 20th centuries. European culture developed with a complex range of philosophy, medieval scholasticism, mysticism and Christian and secular humanism. Rational thinking developed through a long age of change and formation, with the experiments of the Enlightenment and breakthroughs in the sciences. Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the concept of political pluralism, individualism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements) and increasing cultural syncretism resulting from globalization and human migration.

Charlemagne, also known as Charles The Great (Latin: Carolus Magnus; German: Karl Der Grosse), King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774 and Holy Roman Emperor from 800 (April 2, 742 - January 28, 814) was born Charles Martel in Herstal, a municipality of Wallonia, a province of modern Belgium, in either the city of Aachen or Liege. Numbered Charles I, he united much of western and central Europe during the early Middle Ages. He was the first recognised emperor to rule from western Europe since the fall of the Western Roman Empire three centuries earlier. The expanded Frankish state that Charlemagne founded is called the Carolingian Empire. He was later canonized (made a saint) by the pope. Charlemagne was the eldest son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, having been born before their canonical marriage (i.e. before their formal marriage). He became king in 768 following his father's death, initially as co-ruler with his brother Carloman I. Carloman's sudden death in December 771 under unexplained circumstances left Charlemagne as the sole, undisputed ruler of the Frankish Kingdom. He continued his father's policy towards the papacy and became its protector, removing the Lombards from power in northern Italy and leading an incursion into Muslim Spain. He campaigned against the Saxons to his east, Christianising them upon penalty of death and leading to events such as the Massacre of Verden. Charlemagne reached the height of his power in 800 when he was crowned Emperor of the Romans by Pope Leo III on Christmas Day at Rome's Old St. Peter's Basilica. Charlemagne has been called the "Father of Europe" (Pater Europae),as he united most of Western Europe for the first time since the classical era of the Roman Empire and united parts of Europe that had never been under Frankish rule. His rule spurred the Carolingian Renaissance, a period of energetic cultural and intellectual activity within the Western Church. All Holy Roman Emperors considered their kingdoms to be descendants of Charlemagne's empire, up to the last Emperor Francis II and the French and German monarchies. Charlemagne died of pleurisy in Aachen, Francia. He is succeeded by his son Louis the Pious as king of the Frankish Empire. He is laid to rest in The Karlsschrein (English: Shrine of Charlemagne), a gilded sarcophagus in Aachen Cathedral in his imperial capital city of Aachen. He married at least four times and had three legitimate sons, but only his son Louis the Pious survived to succeed him.