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Available
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Collection
Publication
The Great Courses (2008), 18 hours, 36 lectures
Description
Explores the five momentous centuries that link the Classical and Modern worlds and shows how the fall of the Roman Empire gave rise to three great civilizations: Medieval Europe, the Byzantine Empire, and the Islamic Caliphate. Examines many features of the period between A.D. 253 and A.D. 750, including the development of these unique civilizations, their memorable political and religious leaders, and daily life in the late antique world.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
7.2 inches
Local notes
230–750. [1] The world of late antiquity [2] The crisis of the 3rd century [3] The new empire of Diocletian [4] Constantine's Roman revolution [5] The house of Constantine, 337–363 [6] The end of a Unified Empire [7] Ruling the Roman Empire, the imperial center [8] Ruling the Roman Empire, the provinces [9] The barbarians, ethnicity and identity [10] Rome and the barbarians [11] Barbarian kingdoms, Gaul [12] Barbarian kingdoms, Spain and North Africa [13] Barbarian kingdoms, Italy [14] The Eastern Empire in the 5th centurt [15] The end of the Western Empire [16] The age of Justinian, 527–565 [17] The Christianization of the Roman world [18] Christianity and the Roman state [19] The rise of the Roman Church [20] The call of the desert, monasticism [21] Monasticism, solitaries and communities [22] The church fathers, talking about God [23] Patristic portraits [24] "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" [25] Graven images, Christianity's visual arts [26] The universal in the local, cities [27] Rome and Constantinople [28] Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul [29] Celt and Saxon in the British Isles [30] The birth of Byzantium [31] Byzantium, crisis and recovery [32] Muhammad and the rise of Islam [33] The rise of Caliphate [34] Material life in late antiquity [35] The social world of late antiquity [36] What happened, and why does it matter?