History/Medieval Studies 303
Readings:
Book List
Iconoclasm
Discussion Topics
Chronologies:
Imperial Crisis
Later Roman
Emperors, 306-395
Fall of Western
Empire
Age of Justinian
Islamic Caliphs
Byzantine Dark Age
Triumph of
Christianity
Macedonian Resurgence
Crusades
Restoration and Ottoman Advance
Handouts:
Population
Finances under Justinian
Byzantium c.850A.D.
Brown, Peter, Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-59557-6, $9.95
Brown, Peter, The World of Late Antiquity, Norton, ISBN 0-393-05803-4, $9.95
Jones, A. H. M., Constantine and the Conversion of Europe, University of Toronto Press, MART Series, ISBN 0-8020-6369-1, $9.95
Moorhead, John, Justinian, Longman, 0-582-06303-5, $16.95
Vasiliev, A. A., History of the Byzantine Empire, Universityof Wisconsin Press, vol. 1, ISBN 0-299-80925-0, vol. 2, ISBN 0-299-80926-9, $14.95 each
Comnena, Anna, The Alexiad, trans. by E. Sewter, Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14044215-4, $10.95
Procopius, The Secret History, trans. by G. Williamson, Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14-044182-4, $7.95
Psellus, Michael, Fourteen Byzantine Emperors, trans. by E. Sewter. Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14-021827-0
Villehardouin, G. and J. Joinville, Chronicles of the Crusades, trans.
by M. Shaw, Viking/Penguin, ISBN 0-14-021827-0
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SUGGESTED BOOK LIST:
Brown, Peter, Power and Persuasion in Late Antiquity, University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN 0-299-13344-3, $12.95
Cameron, Averil, The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity A.D. 395-600, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-01421-2, $17.50
Hodges, Peter and D.Whitehouse, Mohammed, Charlemagne and the Origins of Europe, Cornell University Press, ISBN 0-80149-9262-9, $12.95
Jenkins, Romily, Byzantium, the Imperial Centuries: A.D 610-1071, MART/Toronto, ISBN 0-8020-6667-4, $14.95
Jones, A. H. M., The Decline of the Ancient World, Longman, ISBN 0-582-48309-3, $31.95
Meyendorff, John, Imperial Unity and Christian Division, ISBN 0-88141-055-1, St. Vladimir’s Press, $16.95
Queller, D. E. and T. F. Madden, The Fourth Crusade: The Conquest of Constantinople, 2nd ed., University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 0-8122-3387-5, $47.50
Rice, David T., Byzantine Archtiecture and Art: An Introduction, Thames and Hudson, $14.95, ISBN 0-500-2004-1
Runciman, Stephen, The First Crusade, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-42705-3, $10.95
Scotts, R., ed. and trans., Liudprand of Cremona: Relatio de Legatione Constantinopolitana, published by Bristol Classical Press, distributed in U.S. by Focus Publishers-R. Collins Co., P.O. Box 369, Newbury MA 01950, 508-462-7256, $16.95, ISBN 1-85399-184-5
Whittow, Mark, The Making of Byzantium 600-1025, Berkely, ISBN 0-520-20497-2,
$17.95
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