The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

• The context of Christianity’s encounter with these tribes is the great migration of peoples that occurred over a period of ...

Lecture 21: Expansion beyond the Boundaries of Empire o The Visigoths located first in Thrace, then moved through Greece and Ita ...

• Finally, the Germanic people called the Franks would eventually become the most dominant in Europe. They came from the lowe ...

Lecture 21: Expansion beyond the Boundaries of Empire Conclusions about the Expansion • Although the Roman Empire had attract ...

The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity Lecture 22 T he emperor Justinian I (b. 483–d. 565) can be considered as pivot ...

Lecture 22: The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity In effect, through his uncle and on his own, Justinian exercised i ...

• Through the military genius of Belisarius, Justinian gained back territories that had been lost—especially in the west—thro ...

Lecture 22: The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity o It formed the basis for Byzantine law; through its dissemination ...

• The churches of San Vitale and Sant’Apollinare in the imperial city of Ravenna in Italy, as well as the Great Palace in Con ...

Lecture 22: The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity position by decree in 533 and secured the approval of Pope John II ...

o The other side of the coin was that the emperor was the supreme benefactor of the church, enacting its decisions (when it agre ...

Lecture 22: The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity Diehl (Walford, trans.), Byzantium. Rosen, Justinian’s Flea. In l ...

The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm Lecture 23 I n 540, Justinian had accomplished what he thought was an “eternal pe ...

Lecture 23: The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm o The Qur’ān provides a vision for the ordering of society, with legi ...

• By 715, Islam extended from the Pyrenees to China, and its ambitions did not stop there; its eyes were on the complete subo ...

Lecture 23: The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm monophysitism, the teaching that emphasized the divine in Christ to t ...

o In 640, he wrote several tractates against the monophysites and monothelites, arguing that Christ had a full humanity, includi ...

Lecture 23: The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm • Despite the popularity of icons, especially among monks, there w ...

• In 753, the son of Leo, Constantine V, intensified the imperial rejection of icons, identifying them as idols and aligning ...

Lecture 23: The Rise of Islam and the Threat of Iconoclasm Barber, Figure and Likeness. Kaegi, Byzantium and the Early Islamic C ...