Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 1
- YouTube: The Day The Universe Changed, Episode 2 Part 1 of 5 (Time 9:59)
Names and Events in Part 1
- @1:07: James Burke stops at a stop sign in the middle Tunisian Desert
- @1:44: Inventors use patents to claim their inventions
- @2:31: James Burke is in the city of Tunis articulating how through Science and Technology our standard of living has gone up
- @3:11: James Burke explains our culture today is the opposite of what used to be; where we are facing forward rather then backwards
- @3:30: As the Ancient Roman empire was falling apart, in Ancient Carthage during the 6th Century BCE a lawyer named Martianus Capella tried to salvage the Roman educational techniques
- @4:10: Augustine of Hippo didn't want to figure out the world, but wanted to look forward to the second life
- @6:08: Barbarians enjoyed farming and drinking
- @6:53: Monks regularity visited remote Barbarians
- @7:40: To Monks, nature was nothing more than symbols
Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 2
- YouTube: The Day The Universe Changed, Episode 2 Part 2 of 5 (Time 9:59)
Names and Events in Part 2
- @0:30: For centuries in Europe people believed their status was given to them by God
- @1:22: On Christmas Day, year 800, Charlemagne was crowned by the Pope
- @1:34: When Charlemagne took over, all but some priests were illiterate
- @1:46: Charlemagne brought in intelligent people like Alcuin of York to begin the educational system using the same educational methods that Martianus Capella salvaged in 6th Century BCE
- @2:27: Seven Liberal Arts: Music, astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, grammar, rhetoric and logic
- @3:34: By the year 950, Europe was back on it's feet and by the year 1000 trade had begun and the very first European marketplaces opened up.
- @4:27: The birth of consumerism and the concept of eating out
- @5:25: By 1050 Bologna, Italy was a vibrant trade route between northern and southern Europe
- @7:23: Bologna had many status symbols
- @8:00: 1076 Ancient Roman Law was discovered
Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 3
- YouTube: The Day The Universe Changed, Episode 2 Part 3 of 5 (Time 9:59)
Names and Events in Part 3
- @0:38: El Cid led Christian Crusades to liberate southern Spain from the Arabs
- @1:10 The Mezquita in Cordova, Spain took 200 years to build and was the 2nd largest mosque next to Mecca
- @1:50: In 970 there were mo1re books in Cordova, Spain then there were in the whole of France, not to mention 70 libraries
- @2:44: The Spanish Arabs of Cordova enjoyed the amenities that the best technology and engineering of the time could offer
- @3:20: Arab Spain gave Europe paper, poetry, desserts and more
- @3:46: El Cid's Christian armies were comprised of mercenaries
- @4:25:: In 1080, Alfonso VI of Castile took advantage of a vulnerable Arab Spain to claimed a Crusade victory at Toledo Spain
- @4:30: James Burke calls the Crusades in Spain "great Christian Propaganda"
- @4:50: Marriage between Christians and Arabs was common in 11th Century Spain
- @4:47: The fall of Toledo Spain in 1085 is a Christian Myth
- @6:12: Toledo Spain was a treasure trove for European scholars because it contained so much knowledge
- @6:30: It took 150 years for scholars to translate the Arabic texts into Latin
- @7:18: Soon the knowledge of botany, zoology, biology, math, geometry, medicine, chemistry, optics, engineering, architecture, astronomy, pharmacology, Philosophy, anatomy and meteorology flooded into Europe
- @7:45: James Burke enjoys a bottle of wine
- @8:14: All the knowledge is thanks to Aristotle, who categorized everything
Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 4
- YouTube: The Day The Universe Changed, Episode 2 Part 4 of 5 (Time 9:59)
Names and Events in Part 4
- @0:10: Aristotle's logic led to synergism which, when combined with Ancient Greek and Ancient Arab knowledge, ended the Middle Ages
- @1:26: At the end of the 12th Century in Bologna, Italy, the translation of ancient texts led to the institutionalization of knowledge
- @1:40: James Burke is at The University of Bologna
- @5:08: The Catholic Church was having problems with members being skeptical
- @6:01: Peter Abelard caused problems for the Catholic Church by pointing out many Biblical Contradictions
- @6:28: William of Conches and Thierry of Chartres took the Bible apart during the 12th Century and this was unthinkable
- @7:21: Chartres Cathedral were architectural marvels of the time, complete with arches and stained glass windows
- @9:39: By 1210 the Pope had banned Aristotle and Arab books, the students went on strike
Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason Part 5
- YouTube: The Day The Universe Changed, Episode 2 Part 5 of 5 (Time 5:17)
Names and Events in Part 5
- @0:25: Theodoric of Freiberg experimented with rainbows in 1304 to find out what made colors
- @1:20: Using a spherical flask filled with water, Theodoric of Freiberg could see four colours: Red, yellow, blue and green
- @2:55: Theodric's theories on light radically changed how people thought
- @3:40: In Western culture, change in is happening so rapidly it's getting increasingly difficult for the developing world to catch up
The Day the Universe Changed Background and Information
- Amazon.com: The Day The Universe Changed DVD
- Comcast.net: The Day The Universe Changed Summaries
- Wikipedia: The Day The Universe Changed Entry
- IMDB: The Day The Universe Changed Entry
- James Burke Institute: The James Burke Knowledge Web
- Ourmedia.org: Knowledge Web Introduction

