On balance, this is a worthwhile course that I am pleased to recommend. Occasional slips of the tongue by a speaker are certainly not grievous faults, but their repetition in the guidebook suggests less-excusable, inadequate proofreading. Correct would be 1271 first, and then 1291. One example (from Lecture 16) is that the year 1291 CE is given as the year Marco Polo set out from Venice to China and also as the year he started back from China. * Some factual errors are made in both the lectures and the course guidebook. I know this is so because my wife is a former teacher of Polynesian dances who could quickly point out those discrepancies. Her descriptions are accurate, but the illustrations are not. Salisbury is describing traditional Tahitian dancing, a video clip of Maori dancing comes on-screen and then, while she discusses Maori dancing, Hawaiian dancers are simultaneously depicted. * A number of visual accompaniments provided are not well chosen. As with too many of The Great Courses produced since 2019, a professor presented in a fixed position in front of a Zoom-meeting-like background is not as engaging as a professor seen teaching from a classroom or studio. ![]() * Staging of this course ought to have been better. In my opinion, other considerations could have improved overall product quality: ![]() * As the title promises, the scope of the history reported and analyzed here encompasses the globe. * Individual lectures in this set have a stand-alone character. Dorsey Armstrong come to mind), that of enabling me to see through the eyes of people who lived in times and places very different from my own. Salisbury shares an ability with some of my other favourite Great Courses presenters (Dr. * Her lectures are a valuable complement to everything I’d previously learned about the Middle Ages. * High school students, as well as those older, would likely appreciate her genial manner of speech. * She can explain and summarize information effectively. ![]() Salisbury is a gifted storyteller, not-at-all emotionless or dry. Here are some key strengths of “The Middle Ages around the World:” Salisbury had a wealth of extra details and insights to share with me, even though the topics she was addressing overlapped those in at least five others among The Great Courses. I wondered if I would have been better off simply reviewing others of The Great Courses already in my collection. Extra Details and Insights! As I started viewing this course, I had a brief initial concern that it was perhaps likely to repeat information I had already learned elsewhere.
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