Bibliograph

The world of Byzantium., Kenneth W. Harl, Part 1-2

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The world of Byzantium., Kenneth W. Harl, Part 1-2

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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videorecording

Main title

The world of Byzantium.

Oclc number

52996568

Responsibility statement

Kenneth W. Harl

Runtime

720

Series statement

Great courses

Summary

A study of the Byzantine Empire from earliest times to the fall of Constantinople in 1453

Table Of Contents

part 1. lecture 1. Imperial crisis & reform -- lecture 2. Constantine -- lecture 3. State and society under the dominate -- lecture 4. Imperial Rome and the barbarians -- lecture 5. The rise of Christianity -- lecture 6. Imperial church & Christian dogma -- lecture 7. The friends of God, ascetics & monks -- lecture 8. The fall of the western empire -- lecture 9. The age of Justinian -- lecture 10. The reconquest of the west -- lecture 11. The search for religious unity -- lecture 12. Birth of Christian aesthetics and letters -- part 2. lecture 13. The Emperor Heraclius -- lecture 14. The Christian citadel -- lecture 15. Life in the Byzantine dark age -- lecture 16. The iconoclastic controversy -- lecture 17. Recovery under the Macedonian emperors -- lecture 18. Imperial zenith, Basil II -- lecture 19. Imperial collapse -- lecture 20. Alexius I & the first crusade -- lecture 21. Comnenian emperors and crusaders -- lecture 22. Imperial exile and restoration -- lecture 23. Byzantine letters and aesthetics -- lecture 24. The fall of Constantinople

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live action

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