The world of Byzantium / Kenneth W. Harl

Published: Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., [2001]
Copyright Date: ©2001
Physical Description: 4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 177 pages ; 19 cm).
Additional Creators: Harl, Kenneth W. and Teaching Company

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Great courses (DVD)

Contents

Part 1: Disc 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. Rise of Christianity ; Lecture 6. Imperial church & Christian dogma -- Disc 2. Lecture 7. Friends of God, ascetics & monks ; Lecture 8. Fall of the western empire ; Lecture 9. Age of Justinian ; Lecture 10. Reconquest of the west ; Lecture 11. Search for religious unity ; Lecture 12. Birth of Christian aesthetics and letters -- Part 2. Disc 3. Lecture 13. Emperor Heraclius ; Lecture 14. Christian citadel ; Lecture 15. Life in the Byzantine dark age ; Lecture 16. Iconoclastic controversy ; Lecture 17. Recovery under the Macedonian emperors ; Lecture 18. Imperial zenith, Basil II -- Disc 4. 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. Fall of Constantinople.

Summary

In twenty-four lectures (each 30 minutes in length), Prof. Harl delivers a study of the Byzantine Empire from earliest times to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

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ISBN

1565855957
9781565855953

Note

Course guidebook includes scope, outline and readings for each lecture, timeline and biographical notes; DVDs include biographical notes about the lecturer.
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Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references.

Participant/Performer Note

Lectures delivered by Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University.

Technical Details

DVD, region 1.

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