24 lectures delivered by Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University.
Contents:
12. The birth of Christian aesthetics and letters. 2. Constantine -- 3. State and society under the dominate -- 4. Imperial Rome and the barbarians -- 5. The rise of Christianity -- 6. Imperial church and Christian dogma -- 7. The friends of God--Ascetics and monks -- 8. The fall of the western empire -- 9. The age of Justinian -- 10. The reconquest of the west -- 11. The search for religious unity -- 12. The birth of Christian aesthetics and letters. 24. The fall of Constantinople. 14. The Christian citadel -- 15. Life in the Byzantine dark age -- 16. The iconoclastic controversy -- 17. Recovery under the Macedonian emperors -- 18. Imperial zenith, Basil II -- 19. Imperial collapse -- 20. Alexius I and the first crusade -- 21. Comnenian emperors and crusaders -- 22. Imperial exile and restoration -- 23. Byzantine letters and aesthetics -- 24. The fall of Constantinople.
Summary:
A study of the Byzantine Empire from earliest times to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
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