And Romantic literature of the whole modern Romantic movement
还有浪漫主义文学和整个现代浪漫主义运动
really germinated in the late 1700s very late 1700s
其实是18世纪末
almost 1800s in Germany
差不多是19世纪初在德国兴起的
And it was a literary period that grew out of Germany
源于德国的一场文学运动
And part of what they did was they wanted to look back
那时的人们做了一件事就是
at some great golden time when there was unity
他们回首过去那个统一的黄金时期
So they went back when what when there was one church
他们怀念那个只有一个教堂的过去
And so they look back at this material and they idolized it
他们看到了并美化了这些东西
so we get the view through this Romantic period
我们便可以从这个透镜大体认识一下浪漫主义时期
One thing I want to talk about today is the Middle Ages
我今天想提的一点就是中世纪
I really don't quite remember if we got to asking yesterday
我不太记得昨天我们有没有提过这个
before we talk about this more specifically
在我们深入讨论骑士精神之前
We talk about the middle ages
我们需要讲一下中世纪
What general time of history are we talking about?
这段历史大概是在什么时间
Approximate dates from what you've learn in school
你们能说出一个大体时间吗
Approximate dates
只要一个大体时间就可以
Approximate dates, starting and ending
大体的时间,它的开始点和结束点
About 1000 to 1300?
大概在公元1000年到1300年吗
This is a wide discrepancy that's kind of the core period
答案的出入会比较大,你说的范围是核心时期
certainly the century that we probably say is most the hundred
大概经历了一个世纪 100年或150年的时间
or hundred fifty the key element we most will agree that is medieval
那个时期应该是在公元1100到1250年左右
Some people goes really go 180 A D way back to about 180 A D
也有人觉得要追溯到公元180年这么早
kind of a common departure plane
那是很多人认为的起始点
Do we talk about this on Monday?
我们周一讲过这个了吗
I'm teaching two classes of 180 each semester
我每个学期都在教两个180个学生的班
So it's always confusing you don't remember what you say one or another
所以真的记不清是在哪个班里讲过了
476 fall of the Roman Empire
西罗马帝国,公元476年衰落
So you know that's kind of a convenient way rather than saying 476
这是一个比单单讲476年更好的说法
If we go through this lecture for general purposes
当我们为了通俗的目的讲这些课的时候
we'll call it medieval times what are the middle ages
我们将这段时期叫做中世纪,那什么是中世纪
Middle to what?
是什么的中间
Why Middle ages?
为什么叫中世纪
Middle ages?
中世纪到底是什么