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Emperor Probus Emperor Carus (282 - 283) Co-Emperors Carinus (283 - 284) and Numerian (283 - 284)
Diocletian R. 284 - 305 Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus Augustus (244 - 311) reigned as emperor from 284 to 305. Diocletian was from the Roman province of Dalmatia (the area of Albania and the former Yugoslavia) (called Ilyria in Greek and Illyricum in Latin). The Emperor Carus named his sons Carinus and Numerian junior emperors with Carinus in the west and Numerian in the east. Following the death of Carus, the brothers became co-emperors. Numerian died on his way to Rome. Diocletian, commander of the imperial body guard assigned to Numerian, was proclaimed emperor by the troops. Carinus met Diocletian in battle and lost. - Diocletian ended a long period of chaos in the empire (235 - 284) and reunited it. Diocletian chose a Roman general, Maximian, to be the junior-emperor (285). - Established a diarchy (two-man rule) in the empire, with two co-emperors, one in the east and one in the west. Diocletian promoted his junior emperor to the rank of subordinate co-emperor and assigned him to rule of the western half of the Roman Empire (286). Diocletian ruled the East and Maximian ruled the West. - Diocletian established the capital of the eastern empire in Nicomedia (Izmit) in western Anatolia (286). - Diocletian established the capital of the Western Empire in Mediolanum (Milan) in northern Italy. However, Diocletian's co-emperor, Maximian, made his headquarters in Augusta Treverorum (Trier) in Germany. The Tetrarchy - Diocletian established the Tetrarchy (Greek: leadership of four), to govern four regions of the empire with two co-emperors, one in the east and one in the west, each with a junior emperor, one in the east and one in west, from four capitals (293). As the paramount leader and ruler, Diocletian ruled the Eastern Empire from Nicomedia. His subordinate co-emperor, Maximian, ruled the Western Empire from Mediolanum. Each emperor had a deputy emperor to rule two further "divisions" or regions of the east and west. Each senior co-emperor was called the Augustus. Each deputy emperor was called the Caesar. Thus, the empire was "divided" into four regions, two in the east and two in the west. The four regions were actually separate military spheres of influence, essentially for border defense, and not clearly defined geographic administrative zones. Constantius, the junior emperor, the Caesar, in the west ruled from Augusta Treverorum (Trier) in Germany. The junior emperor in the east, Galerius, ruled from (Simium) Sremska Mitrovica, a town near Belgrade in Serbia. Galerius married the daughter of Diocletian. Of the two Caesars, Constantius, in the West, at Trier, was the senior. - Diocletian launched the last and harshest or most extensive persecution of Christians in Roman history (called the Great Persecution), from 303 to 311/313. - Diocletian was the first emperor to abdicate on his own, during (or after) a long illness, and compelled his co-emperor in the West, Maximian, to abdicate at the same time. Both co-emperors (Augustii) retired (305). Diocletian retired to his palace in Split in Dalmatia. He died in 312. The junior emperors, Constantius in the West and Galerius in the East, were promoted to co-emperors. Map of the Tetrarchy: the Roman Empire divided into four military regions, each ruled by an emperor. In the East, an Augustus with the capitol in Nicomedia (Izmit) and a Caesar at Simium (Sremska Mitrovica). In the West, an Augustus in at Mediolanum (Milan) and a Caesar at Augusta Treverorum (Trier).
Diocletian built a palace for himself in Split.
The Tetrarchs, porphyry sculpture taken from Constantinople by the Crusaders in 1204 and today in the San Marco Basilica in Venice. Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria, Egypt, Corinthian column erected in AD 297 in commemoration of Diocletian's suppression of a revolt in Alexandria. It had nothing to do with Pompey. Below are the ruins of the Serapeum, part of the Library of Alexandria (see below).
The Early Middle Ages Two lectures by Paul Freedman from a course, The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210), at Yale U., Fall 2011
Introduction and Logistics - Third
Century Crisis and Barbarian Invasions - The Problem of Succession - The Problem of Inflation -
The Ruin of the Local Elite - Diocletian and his Reforms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2B9b9mUPJik Yale:
Transcript:
The History of Christian Thought and Practice Lecture from the course by Jim L. Papandrea at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois (2012)
Constantius I Marcus Flavius Valerius Constantius Herculius Augustus (c. 250 - 306), Constantius I, called Constantius Chlorus. Constantius had one son, Constantine, by Helena, c. 272. Constantius was junior emperor, or Caesar, in the west, with its capital in Milan and Constantius' headquarters in Trier, from 293 to 305. In 289, Constantius, junior co-emperor (Caesar) in the West, married Theodora, the daughter of Maximian, the co-emperor (Augustus) in the West. Upon the retirement of Diocletian and Maximian in 305, Constantius became the co-emperor, or Augustus, and ruled in the West. Galerius ruled the East. Constantius was the senior of the two co-emperors (Augustii). The junior emperors (Caesars) were Severus is the West and Maximinus in the East. Constantius died in Eboracum (York) in the Roman province of Britain in the following year (306) and his troops proclaimed his son, Constantine, emperor (Augustus) of the West. Galerius, who ruled in the East, and now the lone emperor, proclaimed Severus, the Caesar under Constantius, as the new Augustus in the west. However, Constantius' troops proclaimed his son Constantine the new Augustus. Maxentius, the son of Maximian, fought and defeated Severus, forced him to abdicate and had him killed, and his forces gained control of Italy and Africa. Licinius (c. 263 - 325) To settle the conflict of succession, in 308, Diocletian, Maximian and Galerius agreed that Licinius, the right-hand man of Galerius, would be the Augustus in the West, with Constantine as his Caesar. Galerius, emperor in the East, died in 311. His Caesar, Maximinus, succeeded him. Constantine the Great R. 306 - 337 Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus (Constantine the Great) (Constantine I) (Saint Constantine) (AD 272 - AD 337), son of Constantius, and Constantius' first wife, Helena, a Greek. Proclaimed emperor by the Roman legions of Constantius, in York, on his father's death in 306. First Roman emperor (306 - 337) to convert to Christianity. There is some question about his conversion. Moved the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium (Constantinople). ------------- Maxentius, son of the retired co-emperor Maximian, who had been Diocletian's co-emperor, was proclaimed emperor by the legion in Rome (306- 312). Constantine defeated Maxentius in Rome in 312. Battle of the Milvian Bridge Rome, 312 Constantine defeats Maxentius Constantine sole Roman emperor of the West Kai-Rho (or Chi-Rho), the first two letters of the name of Christ in Greek, Christos, which means Messiah in Hebrew - the king and saviour of the Jews. The symbol on the shield on Constantine's soldiers. ------------- Licinius, emperor in the West, married the half-sister of Constantine in Mediolanum in 313. Licinius, ruler in the West, defeated Maximinus, ruler in the East, in 313. Licinius and Constantine agreed that Licinius would rule the East and Constantine the West. Edict of Milan, 313 Universal Freedom of Worship Initiated by Constantine and proclaimed with Licinius, Emperor of the East ------------- The Civil War Constantine and Licinius 314? 316? - Battle of Cibalae - Constantine victor 316? 317? - Battle of Mardia - Constantine victor 324 - Battle of Adrianopole - Constantine victor 324 - Naval Battle of the Hellespont - Constantine's son, Crispus, victor The Battle of Chysopolis - victory for Constantine 325 Constantine defeated Licinius. Licinius surrendered in Nicomedia. Constantine imprisoned Licinius in Salonika and had him hanged in 325. Constantine ordered the death of Licinius's son (Constantine's nephew). ----------- The Colossus of
Constantine and the Basilica Nova The marble bust of the Colossus of Constantine
Brief description https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuD06cnjtAM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZQJgqBcyw4 Reconstruction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srJV9VLW4eM
The Arch of Constantine in Rome
Constantine Episode # 10 of the documentary series Ancient Rome - The Rise and Fall of an Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JA13pdqJNo
Constantine the Great
Rise and Spread of Christianity in Rome
National Geographic documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdwyAprd6g
Lecture # 3 by Paul Freedman from a course The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210) at Yale U., Fall 2011
You Tube:
Yale:
Transcript:
Rome
Episode # 2 of the 2009 documentary series Christianity: A History
Michael Portillo considers Constantine
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27voog_christianity-a-history-2-rome_creation
Constantine's mother, Helena, became a devout Christian. Did Constantine really become a Christian? Was he indifferent to religion? Did Constantine really have a vision before the Battle of Milvian Bridge? Was it really related to Christ? Did he really instruct his soldiers to paint a khai-rho (XP) on their shields before the Battle of Milvian Bridge? Or were many of his soldiers Christians? It was claimed that he was baptised late in life and accepted Christianity in his last moments, on his death bed. Are these misunderstood events? Were they accounts of Constantine later invented or embellished by Eusebius of Caesaria Maritima? Constantine built many churches in the empire, especially in Rome and Constantinople. Constantine decreed the 25th day of December, the date of the winter solstice in the Roman calendar, celebrated by Romans as the day of the birth of the sun, Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, as the Day of the Nativity - Christmas Day (325). The Sons of Constantine Constantine + (305) Minervina = Crispus (295 or 299 or 305 - 325) (executed by his father). A Caesar. Constantine + (307) Fausta (289 - 326) (executed by her husband) = Constantine II (316), co-emperor 337 - 340 (killed on campaign) Constantius II (317), co-emperor 337 - 353 and sole emperor 353 - 361 (died of illness on campaign) Constans (c. 323), co-emperor 337 - 350 (assassinated) Crispus Crispus was a Caesar, commanding Gaul from Trier, and a very competent general. He defeated the Franks and Alamanni. He twice defeated his father's rival Augustus, Licinius, in important land and sea battles, for which he received tribute, as in the Roman coins displayed above. He was popular with the soldiers. He was considered the likely heir of Constantine. For reasons that are not clear, Constantine ordered the trial and execution of Crispus in 326. At the same time, Constantine ordered the death also of his second wife, Fausta.
The empire in the time of Constantine
Animated map displays the Roman Empire from the First Tetrarchy established by Diocletian in 295 to the defeat of Licinius by Constantine and the rule of the entire empire by Constantine as sole emperor in 324.
Constantine sole Roman emperor in the East and the West in 324. -------------- Byzantium - Constantinople Nova Roma (New Rome) The Second Rome
Greeks from Megara in Attica founded Byzantium, on
the European shore of the Bosporous, in 667 B. C. In the time of t The inhabitants of Nova Roma called the
Academics divide the history of
Late Antiquity 1.
Early Period (324 - mid-600s): Foundation of Constantinople in 324 The Roman Empire, ruled from Constantinople, extended
throughout the entire
2. Middle Period (mid-600s - 1060): Islamic/Muslim/Mohammaden Arab Conquest of the eastern and southern Mediterranean in the mid-600s.
The Great Schism of 1053 split the Christian Church into the Orthodox in the east, centred at
Constantinople, and the Catholic in the west, centred at
3. Late Period (1060 - 1453): The 3rd or Late Period can be divided into three sub-periods 1. Arrival of the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia in 1064 The Seljuk Turks stormed through the Near East, taking Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine and the holy city of Jerusalem. They occupied most of Anatolia. The Turks called their empire, the Turkish Sultanate, Rome (Rum). The Byzantines appealed to the Pope in Rome for help to combat the Seljuk Turks. The Pope called for a Christian crusade against the Turks. Armies assembled and headed east. Three Crusades. 2. The knights of the Fourth Crusade laid siege to Constantinople in 1203, sacked it in 1204 and occupied it to 1261 The Crusaders founded the Empire of Romania (or Latin Empire of Constantinople), with a Roman Catholic emperor. The Ottoman Turks laid siege to Constaninople and captured and sacked the city in 1453. - The Turks called the inhabitants of Constantinople Romans. -
Constantinople was the capital of the - Byzantium as a term designating the eastern half of the Roman Empire with its capital in Constantinople was
applied for the first time during the Renaissance, after the fall of Eugen Weber lectures The Western Tradition 1. Byzantine Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlG1IKwRArk 2. Fall of Byzantium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZiuNqevql4&feature=related
Episode from a documentary series with Peter Weller https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3DsHEVZSu8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5VM_oKY3r4
Byzantium, the Lost Empire Four-part documentary series with John Romer
1. Building the Dream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqEA1fLSZgo 2. Heaven on Earth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEcJ-qoVY3k 3. Envy of the world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t6e3iYXAYU 4. Forever and Ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6q-5cDqGM All four episodes in one clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWljhb1DEQ8 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K-Nfh84onQ
Constantinople
The Hippodrome of Constantinople
Architecture of New Rome
Lecture # 23 by Diana Kleiner from the course Roman Architecture (HSAR 252), Yale U., Spring 2009 - The End of the Tetrarchy and the Rise of Constantine the Great - The Baths of Constantine in Rome and the Porta Nigra at Trier - The Basilica or Aula Palatina at Trier - The Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome - The Basilica Nova in Rome - The Arch of Constantine and the Enduring Impact of Roman Architecture You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggwf8c0wkck Yale site:
Transcript:
Constantine and Christianity The nature of Jesus Was Jesus a mere mortal, an extraordinary being who did exceptional things? Was Jesus, the son of God, divine? Was Jesus a demi-god? Did God send his son to die for man's salvation? When filled with the holy spirit, at conception or baptism, did Jesus become God's instrument? Was Jesus, like God, eternal? Arianism ? Arius (250 - 336), a priest in Alexandria: 'If the Father begat the Son, then he who was begotten had a beginning in existence, and from this it follows there was a time when the Son was not.' (Letter from Arius to Eusebius of Nicomedia.) Thus, Jesus, the only begotten Son of God, was not eternal. For the Emperor Constantine, such question was irrelevant. But the dispute over it had to be addressed. Council of Nicea, A. D. 325
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBszFV90ZSE&feature=related
About the Council of Nicea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nhcgzsaWck&feature=related
Council of Nicaea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxmyfu5XJVs&feature=related
Nicean Creed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Muo5W5GlGys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQL3qtkzMT0
Original Nicene Creed, 325 We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord, Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; By whom all things were made both in heaven and on earth; Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man; He suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended into heaven; From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. And in the Holy Ghost. But those who say: 'There was a time when he was not;' and 'He was not before he was made;' and 'He was made out of nothing,' or 'He is of another substance' or 'essence,' or 'The Son of God is created,' or 'changeable,' or 'alterable' — they are condemned by the holy catholic and apostolic Church.
The Constantinopolitan Creed, 381 We believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of all
that is, seen and unseen. For us men and for our salvation he came down from heaven: by the power of the Holy Spirit, he was born of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate; he suffered, died, and was buried. On the third day he rose again in accordance with the Scriptures; he ascended into heaven and is seated at the right hand of the Father. He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead, and his kingdom will have no end. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life, who proceeds from the Father (and the Son). With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified. He has spoken through the Prophets. We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church. We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins. We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come. Amen.
The Nicene Creed Discussion on the BBC weekly radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg 27 December 2007 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b008jglt
The History of Christian Thought and Practice (1) Course lectures 11 - 14 by Jim L. Papandrea at the Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois (2012)
Shield of the Trinity Athanasian Creed (c. 400): 'The Father is made of none; neither created, nor begotten. The Son is of the Father alone; not made, nor created; but begotten. The Holy Ghost is of the Father and of the Son; neither made, nor created, nor begotten; but proceeding.' Author(s) unknown, first attributed to Athanasius (296/8 - 373), Orthodox Patriarch/Bishop of Alexandria (328 - 373). Athanase d'Alexandrie La Foi prise au Mot 29/11/2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxaX0zezQ6Y Constantine and Athanasias Chapter 10 of the lecture series on Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Books that Matter by the Great Courses Leo Damrosch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMT0B4U0Qkw The Trinity
God, the Father; Jesus, the Son; and the Holy Ghost/Spirit
The Trinity Discussion on the weekly BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg 13 March 2014
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03xgl3m
Source: The Orthodox Life - The Twenty Ten Theme - Blog at WordPress.com
Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity Episode from the documentary series Religions of the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7cUuxh3CYY or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkoDZdqBaFM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOIODKd-Eg0 Constantine died in Nicomedia in 337.
The two sides of a coin minted in 337, the year of Constantine's death. Profile of Constantine on the left and the labarum, with the Kai-Rho on top, on the right. On the left: CONSTANTINUS MAX AUG. On the left: SPES PUBLICA CONS.
The five major patriarchates of the Christian Church, in order of importance, in 381, were (1) Rome, considered the centre of the church in the western half of the Roman Empire; (2) Constantinople, centre of the church in the eastern half of the Roman Empire; (3) Alexandria, (4) Antioch and (5) Jerusalem were the other major centers of the church in the eastern half of the Roman Empire. The five patriachates eventually divided into two churches - the Catholic Church, also referred to as the Western Church and Roman Catholic Church, centered in Rome, and the Orthodox Church, also referred to as the Eastern Church and Greek Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople. The patriarchates of Alexandria and Antioch split with Constantinople in 451; thus, the Coptic (Egyptian) Church, centered in Alexandria, and the Assyrian (or Syriac) Church, centered in Antioch, became the Oriental Orthodox Church. Emperor Justinian I (r. 527 to 565) gave the five patriarchates the designation of the Pentarchy in 531.
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Julian the Apostate Julian the Philosopher Julian the Hellene Bronze coin from Antioch with the Emperor Julian - Julian the Apostate (Julianus Apostata) - from 360 - 363. Flavius Claudius Julianus Augustus (331/332 – 363), nephew of Constantine the Great; called Julian the Apostate and Julian the Philosopher; junior emperor in the West (355 - 361); proclaimed emperor by his troops in 360; challenged Emperor Constantius II, who fell ill and died and left Julian sole emperor (361); the last non-Christian emperor, he restored traditional worship of the Greek and Roman gods as the state religion. Julian attempted to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem (363). Killed at the Battle of Samarra against the Sassanids.
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Theodosius the Great r. 379 -395 Flavius Theodosius Augustus (347 - 395), Theodosius I, Theodosius the Great, Saint Theodosius, last Roman Emperor (379 - 395) to rule an united empire, with both the eastern and western halves. Theodosius made Eastern or Orthodox Nicaean Christianity the Roman Empire's official religion. He is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church. He terminated the Olympic Games in Greece.
Brief biography: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGSL5K8jehQ&feature=topics
Lecture # 4 by Paul Freedman from a course The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210) at Yale U., Fall 2011 Introduction - Julian the Apostate - Essential Heresies: Arianism and Donatism - Essential Heresies 2: Manicheanism - Roman Emperors and Christian Heresies - Introduction to St. Augustine's Confessions - Platonism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzibwdsl_SI ----------------- Saint Ambrose ![]() Aurelius Ambrosius (Ambrose) (337-340 -
397), an Orthodox Catholic and Nicene
Christian, Archbishop of Mediolanum (Milan) (374 - 397). Mosaic portrait of Saint Ambrose in the Basilica di Sant'Ambrogio in Milan. Conflicts with the Arians
and Emperor Theodosius. Saint
Amboise de Milan La foi prise au mot 30 - 11 - 14 -------------- Decline and Fall of Rome Two
lectures by Eugen Weber of UCLA from the 1986 lecture series The Western Tradition
Decline of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SouL-h70wQ Fall of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgkraiyqmXc&feature=related
The Fall of Rome
Episode from the German documentary series Fall of Great Empires (50 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R28GUH9xPY4
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Artist's conception of The Library of Alexandria. Little is known about the library, its actual location in Alexandria, if it was one large library in one place or several libraries in several places, if it was actually a library, and what it contained or what books or scrolls it held. Was it destroyed? Was it destroyed by Caesar, or by Christian mobs, or conquering Arabs? Or was it neglected over time and fall into disuse? The Lost Treasure of the Alexandria Library Episode from the documentary series Ancient Mysteries narrated by Leonard Nimoy (1996) (46:33) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIMu2FmLtdM
Episode rom the documentary series In Search of History (43:33) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wImpfdpL9eQ Serapis, Greco-Egyptian deity of the sun.
The Burning of the Library of Alexandria in A. D. 391. Also called The Burning of the Serepeum. Did it really happen?
Carl Sagan on Alexandria and Hypatia
Excerpts from the series Cosmos https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=qT_OrdrtZpk (22:39)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BPc1WBEmmA
Movie about Hypatia of Alexandria (2009) (2 hrs. 7 min. 8 sec.)
Part 1.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3aykb4
Part 2.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3aw75u
or
Part 1.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z2mtj
Part 2.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1z59li
Entire film - dubbed in Spanish:
Agora
Review of the movie Agora on History Buffs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwUwjkEveBE
Alexandria -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQ6lbwN9R8
HYPATIA
Saint Jerome
![]() St Jerome (c. 347 - 420)
Jerome translated the Hebrew Bible into Latin and revised
the Old Latin Gospels by the oldest Greek versions. His translation of the Bible was eventually known as the Vulgate and, by
the 1100s, it was the common Bible.
Saint Jérôme La Foi prise au Mot 07/12/2014 Thine is the Kingdom
Part 5 of 7 of the documentary series Testament
with John Romer (1988)
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Rome, Byzantium and the Barbarians
Romans, Germans and Huns
Barbarians Documentary with Terry Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sI8W5zyTcc&feature=related
Dark Ages https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsHSbBxjAOk&feature=related Les invasions barbares Bruno Dumézil Aix-en-Provence, février 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blLjwpvfGOo Goths A Germanic people probably from southern Sweden and northern Poland. The Goths spread southward to the Black Sea, east to the Urals and west into the Balkans. Despite the Nicene Creed, many of Constantine's relatives, high government officials and religious authorities remained Arian. Eusebius, Bishop of Nicomedia, an Arian, was the emperor's religious advisor. Eusebius baptised Constantine. The Goths were the first Germans to become Christians, in the mid to late-300s. The Goths were Arian Christians. The Goths split into Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths), in the Balkans, and Visigoths (Western Goths), in Gaul. The Goths invaded northern Italy and in 402 placed Mediolanum under siege. The Imperial capital moved to Ravenna, on the Adriatic coast. Goths sack Rome, A. D. 410 The Goths Episode from the Barbarians documentary series Roman Emperor Theodosius; General Flavius Stilicho (359? –408); Alaric I, King of the Visigoths (370 - 410); and Artulf, Visigoth general https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P51eICFxlhk&feature=fvwrel
The Fall of Rome Episode 6 of the BBC documentary series Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KSH1dSAAJ4
The Barbarian General - Flavius Stilicho Episode # 11 of the documentary series Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Lhkm__pVU
The Savage Goths Episode from the documentary series Terry Jones' Barbarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtxSeGkeyKk
Les wizigoths Bruno Dumézil Aix-en-Provence en mars 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVa6x5FaHRs In the East, the Ostrogoths remained in large force north of the Black Sea but they were eventually assimilated by the Lombards in Italy in the 700s. In the West, the Visigoths settled in the Iberian Peninsula and formed kingdoms from the 500s to 700s. -----------------------
Vandals The Vandals were a Germanic people, believed to have come from Scandanavia and settled in Poland. They moved south until stopped by the Goths. They settled along the Danube. The Vandals became Christians in the mid to late 300s. The Vandals were Arians. The Vandals were forced westward by the Huns into Gaul and Iberia in the 400s. They clashed with the Visigoths and forced south into North Africa and eventually ruled the Balearic Islands, North Africa, Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, and Sicily. The Vandals sacked Rome in 455.
The Vandals Episode # 2 from the documentary series Barbarians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAZt65tjHo&feature=related or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z2J8iAlZMw
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Saint Augustine of Hippo (A. D. 354 - A. D. 430) Bishop of Hippo Regius (Annaba, Algeria) Saint Augustine in his Study painted by Sandro Botticelli, 1480, Italy
Clip 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy7kishOwv8
- Why we read The Confessions
- Perfectability, Sin, and Grace
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UqYi2wOdGE
The History of Christian Thought and Practice 1 Lectures by Jim Papandrea Garrett-Evangelical
Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois (2012) Lecture 17. Augustine and Donatism Lecture 18. Augustine
and Pelagiansim Archaeological site of Hippo
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Theodosian Walls of Constaninople
Theodosian Walls built by Theodosius II (Theodosius the Younger) (early 400s)
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Yale:
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Huns
The Huns may have been Asiatics from China and Mongolia or Central Asia. They inhabited Central Asia and Eastern Europe from the 300s and 500s. By 430 the Huns dominated most of the border lands north and east of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Huns were strongest under their king Attila. The Huns were stopped in Gaul in 451 and Italy in 452 and faded after Attila's death in 453. The Huns were not Christians. Huns Documentary from the Barbarians series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQYigCUcZjg
Horse Warriors Episode about the barbarian invasions from the documentary series War and Civilization narrated by Walter Cronkite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSWeyeMIvfY&feature=relmfu
Attila the Hun ( - 453) 19th-century depiction of Attila the Hun
Attila Biographical Documentary (3 clips) 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJoPW1xBtnk&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFPI_Z5rDsY&feature=relmfu 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QaBbIBcNtU&feature=relmfu
The Real Attila the Hun Documentary
Attila the Hun Documentary 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2f3_IOHW3I&feature=relmfu 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSNIuACv3KA&feature=relmfu 3. ? 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrhRUaMn86k&feature=relmfu
Roman General Flavius Aetius and Attila https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKV5RrUKMLk
Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (Battle of Châlons sur Marne) Hun westward advance stopped 451 The Huns crossed the Rhine and got as far as Aurelianum (Orleans) in 451. They broke off their siege and retreated when the Romans approached. An army led by the Roman General Aetius and Visigoth King Theodoric I fought a big battle against an army led by Attila without a clear victor. There were Burgundians, Franks and Goths on both sides. Saxons with Aetius and Theodoric. Theodoric was killed. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PqTspSrp54&feature=related 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgWjCf9psoY&feature=relmfu or 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMZHovydSFQ 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBkNuZ6rySA&feature=relmfu
2001 Movie ( 3 hrs.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SILi8bu4-yk Huns and Vandals Chapter 14 of the lecture series on Edward Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Books that Matter by the Great Courses Leo Damrosch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzPi59sGPcM Barbarian Kingdoms Lecture # 7 by Paul Freedman from the course The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210), Yale U., Fall 2011 Introduction - Tacitus and the Nature of the Barbarian Tribes - The Barbardian Kingdoms - Intellectual Life after the Fall of Rome - The Barbarian Tribes: Vandals, Moors, Angles, Saxons, and Visigoths - The Burgundians and the Burgundian Code You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAVUS-QUe_c Yale U.: http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-7 Transcript: http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1191/hist-210
Puppet Master
Ricimer, Roman general of Suevi and
Goth origins, paramount power from 456 to 472
Episode # 12 of Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire documentary series
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63XWawXBr-c&feature=related
Last Roman Emperor
End of the western empire
Orestes, Roman general ( - 476); his son, Romulus Augustus (460 - 476), last emperor; and the German chief, Odoacer (433 - 493), first King of Italy
Episode # 13 of the documentary series Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUktr-qTTxw
The Fall of Rome
Episode from the German documentary series Fall of Great Empires (50 min.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R28GUH9xPY4
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Franks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA_SSpQDpl4&feature=related
Clovis, First King of the Franks Clovis was the first Frank to become a Christian. Baptism of Clovis in Reims, 496; painting by François-Louis Dejuinne, 1837 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGLsZUIJH1c 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=029m5aLd5TU&feature=related
The Franks, Childeric, Clovis and Christianity https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSjhne1AQOs
Clovis and the Franks History of the Frankish Merovingian kings by Gregory of Tours Lecture # 10 by Paul Freedman from the course The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210), Yale U., Fall 2011 You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uMZVj5b0Qo&feature=relmfu Yale: Transcript:
Frankish Society On the history of the Frankish Merovingian kings by Gregory of Tours Lecture # 11 of the course The Early Middle Ages, 284--1000 (HIST 210), Yale U., Fall 2011 You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNLLrgsAxds&feature=relmfu
Gregory of Tours (539 - 594)
History of the Franks: Books I-X
(Abridged) edited by Paul Halsall, Medieval Sourcebook, Fordham University
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/gregory-hist.asp
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Justinian the Great
482 – 565 Emperor Justinian, centre, and Byzantine General Belisarius, on the right, in a mosaic in the Basilica San Vitale in Ravenna.
Under Justinian I the Roman Empire reconquered briefly its former possessions in the west for the last time.
Brief intro:
Justinian the Great
A clip by a blogger from edits of a documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKBop-9j0w8&feature=related
Justinian I -
"Deus Judex Justus" ("God is just")
Images of Justinian assembled by a blogger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AffmfrVngt0
Justinian
Clips (2) by a blogger edited from a documentary with Peter Weller, Byzantium - Engineering an Empire
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpbvCF9Jj40&feature=related
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iVAzzQfXO0&feature=related
The Plague of Justinian
A clip from the documentary Dark Ages by a blogger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzb5K5M8cgY&feature=related
The Ravenna mosaic
Justinian and his attendants - 6th century mosaic in the Basilica San Vitale in Ravenna, Italy; Justinian at centre and Belasarius behind him, on the right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ2knbAEcY8
Empress Theodora (center) (Ravenna mosaic)
Justinian - Der Letzte Römer
Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHv3jfGMx88&feature=related
Early Middle Ages
Two of 22 lectures by Paul Freedman from the course Early Middle Ages, 284--1000, Fall 2011, Yale U.
Lecture # 8. Survival in the East
- Introduction - Procopius’ Secret History - Circumstances of the Survival of the East - Christological Controversies – Nestorianism and Monophysitism - The Rise of Islam, the Persian Threat, and Barbarian Invasions - Iconoclasm - Conclusion
You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfXChPJZLZE&feature=relmfu
Yale:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-8#ch3
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1192/hist-210
Lecture # 9. The Reign of Justinian
1. Primary Sources: Procopius and
Gregory of Tours
You Tube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbN8OTHecuI&feature=relmfu
Yale:
http://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210/lecture-9
Transcript:
http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/1193/hist-210
The Secret History of Procopius
A translation by Richard Atwater (1927)
I. How the great General Belisarius was hoodwinked by his wife, whose lover became a monk
II. How belated jealousy affected Belisarius's military judgment, to the joy of the enemy
III. Showing the danger of interfering Wwth a woman's intrigues, especially when the woman is the friend of an empress
IV. How Theodora, revenging her dear Antonina, humiliated the conqueror of Africa and Italy . . . . . . .
ttp://sacred-texts.com/cla/proc/shp/index.htm
or
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/procop-anec.asp
or
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Anecdota/home.html
The Return of Justinian the Great
A computer artist recounts her search for Justinian the Great on the Internet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLmDDFE1oxc
Hagia Sophia, built by Justinian I in A. D. 537. Minarets added after the Ottomon siege of Constantinople in 1453
Hagia Sophia 3D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpa2y5tRizo&feature=related
Hagia Sophia, the most beautiful church of the Byzantines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL-0uNeoWEE
A reading of an excerpt from The Buildings by Procopius https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUnS0jLeNU
Istanbul
Travel Guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfoO8x6S4Aw
The Glory of Byzantium Episode 2 from the BBC documentary series Art of Eternity
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Lombards Last of the Germanic invaders, under Alboin, conquer Italy (568 – 774)
Episode from the Barbarians documentary series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5teZY13KW2w
Avars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK8be_fbCvc&feature=related
Avar graves documentary about Avar graves found in Croatia in 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgXhU3ndr0o&feature=related
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Portrait of Edward Gibbon (1737 – 1794) by Henry Walton
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The Collapse of the Roman Empire in the Fifth Century
Lecture by Discussion in the weekly Thursday
BBC radio programme In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg 18 March 2004 With guests Charlotte Roueché, David Womersley and Richard
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The Roman Empire
in Relation to Culture
A reading of a chapter from Bertrand Russell's
History of Western Philosophy (1945)
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