LECTURE:
LATE ANTIQUITY
Fall of Western Rome
| Map:
Barbarian invasions Map: End of the Western Empire Map: The Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) AD 500 |
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Theories
- decline of virtú: Edward Gibbon (19th c.)
- decline of Senate and rise of military
- overexpansion map AD 395
- lead poisoning bibliography
- Christianity
Christianity
- Origins Frontline: From Jesus to Christ
- Stages
- Late 1st c. BC-Early AD 1st c.: Life of Jesus
- AD 1st c.: Paul and the spread of ideas, universality
- AD 2nd c.: Christianity defined, separated from Judaism, beginning of orthodoxy
- AD 3rd c.: Christianity as an organized order with own rituals, Roman persecutions
- AD 4th c.: Constantine's imperial Christianity, new Jerusalem, persecutions of non-orthodox Christian sects
Latin Christendom
Emerges 
- Dark Ages ?
Game: Age of Empires II: Goths - Germanic traditions
- role of women
warriors
Visigothic code on inheritance - law and culture
Law of the Salian Franks
Formulas for the Ordeal
- role of women
Christian unification
- The Church
Fathers
St. Augustine:
Document:
The Confessions (AD 397)
Document:
The City of God (AD 410) - Early monasticism
Document: The Rule of St. Benedict of Nursia (AD 530) - Pope Gregory I (590 - 604)
- The Franks
- Europe in 600
- Charlemagne (crowned 800)
