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Sir Galahad and the Sacred Cup
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Click here to see a selection of downloadable curriculum resources from CurrClick which could be used in a study of Beowulf. This link will take you away from My Audio School.
Total running time: 1 hour, 56 minutes
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Chapter 1, How Grendel the Ogre Warred with the Dane Folk
Chapter 2, How Beowulf the Goth came to Daneland
Chapter 3, Beowulf Telleth How He Warred with the Sea Folk
Chapter 4, How Beowulf Overcame Grendel the Ogre
Chapter 5, How the Water Witch Warred with the Dane Folk
Chapter 6, How Beowulf Overcame the Water Witch
Chapter 7, How Beowulf Returned to his Own Land
Chapter 8, How the Fire Dragon warred with the Goth Folk
Chapter 9, How Beowulf Overcame the Dragon
Chapter 10, Beowulf’s Last Rest
Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, has made several classes available for free online through their Worldwide Classroom.
Although Ancient and Medieval Church History is a college-level course, I believe it would be appropriate for a high school student studying this topic.
In order to listen to these free classes, you’ll need to register with Worldwide Classroom. After registering, you’ll be able to listen to all of these sessions on Mp3, as well as download written transcripts and study guides for each lecture.
Click here to learn more about this course or to download a syllabus.
Click here to learn more about Worldwide Classroom.
Click here for Covenant Theological Seminary’s statement of faith.
Here is a course description and a list of the topics covered in this course.
Course Description (taken from the Worldwide Classroom site):
A study of Christianity from the Early Church to the dawn of the Reformation, with source material readings. This course places an emphasis on the application of church history to life and ministry and helps the student to understand the development of Christian thought and the formulation of doctrine as part of God’s overall pattern of history. This course is taught by David Calhoun.
Lesson 1: The Study of Church History
Lesson 2: The Growth of the Christian Church
Lesson 3: The Persecutions
Lesson 4: The Apologists
Lesson 5: Orthodoxy and Heresy
Lesson 6: Canon, Creed, and Bishops
Lesson 7: The Early Church Fathers
Lesson 8: The People of the Early Church
Lesson 9: The Church in the Fourth Century
Lesson 10: The Beginnings of Monasticism
Lesson 11: Donatism
Lesson 12: The Council of Nicea
Lesson 13: Cappadocians and Constantinople
Lesson 14: Ambrose, Jerome, and Chrysostom
Lesson 15: Augustine’s Confessions
Lesson 16: Augustine and the Pelagian Controversy
Lesson 17: Augustine’s Theology of History
Lesson 18: The Council of Chalcedon
Lesson 19: The Early Middle Ages
Lesson 20: Medieval Missions
Lesson 21: The Christianization of Great Britain
Lesson 22: Learning and Theology
Lesson 23: Eastern Orthodoxy
Lesson 24: The Late Middle Ages
Lesson 25: Medieval Monasticism
Lesson 26: Crusades or Missions?
Lesson 27: The Waldensians
Lesson 28: Scholastic Theology
Lesson 29: Thomas Aquinas
Lesson 30: The Sacramental System
Lesson 31: Church and State
Lesson 32: Wycliffe and Hus
Lesson 33: Reform in Italy
Lesson 34: Mysticism and the Modern Devotion
Lesson 35: The Waning of the Middle Ages
Appendix A: Catholic World Missions
Appendix B: The Spread of the Western Church
Appendix C: The Spread of the Eastern Church
Appendix D: The 100 Most Important Dates in Church History
Summary: From the first chapter: “History is a story, a story of things that happened to real live people in our England years ago; and the things that are happening here and now, and that are put in the newspapers, will be history for little children one of these days. And the people you read about in history were real live people, who were good and bad, and glad and sorry, just as people are now-a-days.”
E. Nesbit writes about some of the people behind the names, dates and battles of English History in this lovely book for older children. The original book contains some beautiful illustrations and you can see those by clicking the ‘Gutenberg’ link below. (Summary by Cori Samuel for Librivox)
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Total running time: 1 hour, 13 minutes
04 – The First Prince of Wales
06 – Henry the Fifth and the Baby King
Aladdin and the Magic Lamp from the Frog Prince Tales.
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Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp from Andrew Lang’s The Blue Fairy Book. To read the text yourself, click here. To download the entire Blue Fairy Book to MP3,click here.
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Part two of this book is also available. Click here to go to Our Island Story part 2.
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Our Island Story: Introduction
Chapter 1: The Stories of Albion and Brutus
Chapter 2: The Coming of the Romans
chapter 3: The Romans Come Again
Chapter 4: How Caligula Conquered Britain
Chapter 5: The Story of a Warrior Queen
Chapter 6: The Last of the Romans
Chapter 7: The Story of St. Alban
Chapter 8: Vortigern and King Constans
Chapter 9: The Coming of Hengist and Horsa
Chapter 10: Hengist’s Treachery
Chapter 11: How the Giant’s Dance was Brought to Britain
Chapter 12: The Coming of Arthur
Chapter 13: The Founding of the Round Table
Chapter 14: Gregory and the Pretty Children
Chapter 15: How King Alfred Learned to Read
Chapter 16: King Alfred in the Cowherd’s Cottage
Chapter 17: More About Alfred the Great
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Chapter 18: Ethelred the Unready
Chapter 19: How Edmund Ironside Fought for the Crown
Chapter 20: Canute and the Waves
Chapter 21: Edward the Confessor
Chapter 23: The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Chapter 24: The Battle of Hastings
Chapter 25: William the Conqueror
Chapter 28: The Story of the White Ship
Chapter 29: The Story of King Stephen
Chapter 30: Gilbert and Rohesia
Chapter 32: Conquest of Ireland
Chapter 33: Richard Coer de Lion
Chapter 34: How Blondel found the King
Chapter 39: The Story of the Poisoned Dagger
Chapter 40: The Little War of Chalons
Chapter 41: The First Prince of Wales
Chapter 42: The Hammer of the Scots
Chapter 43: Robert the Bruce and Bohun
Chapter 44: The Battle of Bannockburn
Chapter 45: The Battle of Sluys
Chapter 46: The Battle of Crecy
Chapter 47: The Siege of Calais
Chapter 48: The Battle of Poitiers
Chapter 49: Wat Tyler’s Rebellion
Chapter 50: How King Richard II Lost His Throne
Chapter 51: The Battle of Shrewsbury
Chapter 52: How Prince Hal was Sent to Prison
Chapter 53: The Battle of Agincourt
Chapter 54: The Maid of Orleans
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The Sons of William the Conqueror
George Washington and His Hatchet
The Blind Men and the Elephant
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The first half of this book is also available. Click here for Our Island Story Part 1.
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Summary from Librivox:
Our Island Story was first published in 1905 and became an instant classic. Beginning with the Romans and following the triumphs and foibles of the good, not so good and the downright despicable figures of history; we are treated to a dazzling montage of kings, queens, barons, knights, explorers, movers and shakers that have played a key role in the history of England.
Marshall freely mixes folk tale with historical fact and in so doing paints a very vivid picture of the past in a style reminiscent of all that is finest in the children’s story-telling tradition. This is the second section of that work and will carry you from the convoluted and bloody Wars of the Roses up to the death of Queen Victoria and the resolution of the Boer War.
Please be advised that this book was written in the early years of the 20th century and there will be words and phrases used then, in all innocence, that are considered politically incorrect in this age. It’s perfectly fine for children to listen to but please ensure there is someone on hand who can explain these terms in a mature fashion.(Summary by Jim, for Librivox.org)
56 Queen Margaret and the Robbers
58 Edward V – The King Who was Never Crowned
59 The Two Little Princes in the Tower
60 Henry VII – Story of the Make-Believe Prince
61 Another Make-Believe Prince
62 Henry VIII and The Field of the Cloth of Gold
63 How the King Became the Defender of the Faith
64 Henry VIII: The Story of the King’s Six Wives
66 The Story of Lady Jane Grey
67 How the Princess Elizabeth Became a Prisoner
68 Mary I – How a Candle Was Lit in England
69 How the Imprisoned Princess Became a Queen
70 Elizabeth – The Story of a Most Unhappy Queen
71 How England was saved from the Spaniards
72 Elizabeth–The story of Sir Walter Raleigh
76 How a Woman Struck a Blow for Freedom
77 How the King and the Parliament Quarrelled
78 The Story of How the King was Brought to His Death
80 The Commonwealth – The Lord Protector
81 How Death Walked in the Streets of London
82 The Story of How London was Burned
85 The Story of the Seven Bishops
87 The Story of Brave Londonderry
88 The Story of a Sad Day in a Highland Glen
89 How the Union Jack was Made
90 The Story of the Earl of Mar’s Hunting Party
91 The Story of Bonnie Prince Charlie
92 The Story of Flora MacDonald
93 The Story of The Black Hole of Calcutta
94 The Story of How Canada Was Won
96 A Story of a Spinning Wheel
97 England Expects that Every Man will do his Duty
98 George III – The Battle of Waterloo
99 The First Gentleman in Europe
102 Victoria – When Bread was Dear
106 Victoria – The Siege of Delhi
108 Victoria – Under the Southern Cross
109 From Cannibal to Christian
110 Victoria – Boer and Briton
111 List of Kings from Edward the Confessor
St. George and the Dragon on Story Nory
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