HIST 210: The Early Middle Ages, 284–1000 with Prof. Paul H. Freedman

Sessions

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Lecture 1 Course Introduction: Rome’s Greatness and First Crises
Lecture 2 The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms
Lecture 3 Constantine and the Early Church
Lecture 4 The Christian Roman Empire
Lecture 5 St. Augustine’s Confessions
Lecture 6 Transformation of the Roman Empire
Lecture 7 Barbarian Kingdoms
Lecture 8 Survival in the East
Lecture 9 The Reign of Justinian
Lecture 10 Clovis and the Franks
Lecture 11 Frankish Society
Lecture 12 Britain and Ireland
Lecture 13 Monasticism
Lecture 14 Mohammed and the Arab Conquests
Lecture 15 Islamic Conquests and Civil War
Lecture 16 The Splendor of the Abbasid Period
Lecture 17 The Crucial Seventh Century
Lecture 18 The Splendor of Byzantium
Lecture 19 Charlemagne
Lecture 20 Intellectuals and the Court of Charlemagne
Lecture 21 Crisis of the Carolingians
Lecture 22 Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000