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

Lecture 22: The Court of Justinian and Byzantine Christianity

Diehl (Walford, trans.), Byzantium.

Rosen, Justinian’s Flea.

1. In light of Justinian’s rule, discuss the advantages and disadvantages to
   Christianity of having imperial protection and patronage.


2. Identify the ways that the Byzantine Empire continued the traditions of
   Rome and the ways in which it was something new.

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