Season
Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 The Vikings in Medieval History
- Season 1 Land and People of Medieval Scandinavia
- Season 1 Scandinavian Society in the Bronze Age
- Season 1 Scandinavia in the Celtic and Roman Ages
- Season 1 The Age of Migrations
- Season 1 The Norse Gods
- Season 1 Runes, Poetry, and Visual Arts
- Season 1 Legendary Kings and Heroes
- Season 1 A Revolution in Shipbuilding
- Season 1 Warfare and Society in the Viking Age
- Season 1 Merchants and Commerce in the Viking Age
- Season 1 Christendom on the Eve of the Viking Age
- Season 1 Viking Raids on the Carolingian Empire
- Season 1 The Duchy of Normandy
- Season 1 Viking Assault on England
- Season 1 The Danelaw
- Season 1 Viking Assault on Ireland
- Season 1 Norse Kings of Dublin and Ireland
- Season 1 The Settlement of Iceland
- Season 1 Iceland - A Frontier Republic
- Season 1 Skaldic Poetry and Sagas
- Season 1 Western Voyages to Greenland and Vinland
- Season 1 Swedes in the Baltic Sea and Russia
- Season 1 The Road to Byzantium
- Season 1 From Varangians into Russians
- Season 1 Transformation of Scandinavian Society
- Season 1 St. Anskar and the First Christian Missions
- Season 1 Formation of the Kingdom of Denmark
- Season 1 Cnut the Great
- Season 1 Collapse of Cnut's Empire
- Season 1 Jarls and Sea Kings of Norway
- Season 1 St. Olaf of Norway
- Season 1 Kings of the Swedes and Goths
- Season 1 Christianization and Economic Change
- Season 1 From Vikings to Crusaders
- Season 1 The Viking Legacy
The Great Courses - History of the Vikings - Season 1 Episode 24 The Road to Byzantium
0.00 48 minutes The shift in Swedish trading activity from the Volga in the east to the Dneiper in the west was also a shift away from the Islamic world and towards a Byzantine Christian civilization that greatly impressed the Swedes. The Rus became mercenary allies and trading partners with the emperors in Constantinople and imported imperial institutions into an incipient Russian kingdom, beginning the process of Christianization and political transformation.
