The Transformation of the Roman Empire and the Triumph of Christianity Civ 10103 March 6 2015 Class 20 The Legacy of Late Antiquity The Division of the Empire into EastWest The esp eastern empire afforded relative stability for historical and cultural developments ID: 625477
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Late Antiquity: The Transformation of the Roman Empire and the Triumph of Christianity
Civ
101-03
March 6, 2015
Class 20Slide2
The Legacy of Late Antiquity
The Division of the Empire into East/West
The (esp. eastern) empire afforded relative stability for historical and cultural developments
Roman laws and institutions (esp
.
Roman imperial leadership style) in attempts to maintain dominance (mostly failed)
Beginnings of “state” organizations (that will become the nations of Europe/the west)
Catholic institutions integrate with civil institutions
In the west,
t
he papacy developsSlide3
The beginning of extensive historical records as writing AND preservation are privatized.First there is destruction of almost everythingThen there are limited efforts at preservation of selected aspects.
As the Church gets into place and the wars settle down, we start to derive the benefits of writing (that we covered last time),
better history
Some
conservation of ancient stuff (most of it “private” and some of it “hidden”Loads of reconstruction of ancient stuffLots of it was speculative/tradition basedLots of it was censored by Christian approachEven more than the Romans: COPIERS
The Legacy of Late AntiquitySlide4
The Transformation of the Roman EmpireThe Crisis of the Third Century
Twenty-two emperors in fifty years
Institutional chaos
Threats along the frontier
Persecution of ChristiansSlide5Slide6
The Transformation of the Roman EmpireThe Reforms of Diocletian and Constantine
Tetrarchy (that doesn’t work/hold)
East and West division (that DOES)
Foreshadows (and to some degree, leads to) divisions that will haunt Western Civilization
Eastern ChurchTrouble with IslamSlide7
The Roman Empire in the Fourth CenturySlide8
Transformation of the Roman EmpireThe Later Roman Empire in West and East
The end of the western empire
Barbarian federates
Sack of Rome, 410
Fall of western empire, 476Beginnings of “state” organizations (that will become nations) as invaders, indigenous people, and the Roman Empire, remix and split territory.Slide9
The Later Roman Empire in West and East The eastern empireConstantinopleAlong with the East, becomes Christian, BUT ends up Christian of the “other” (minority) kind (Eastern Orthodox)
Transformation of the Roman EmpireSlide10
The Growth of the Catholic ChurchBishopsPetrine Idea and apostolic succession
Nicene creed
Heresies
Eventually, the New Testament
The Triumph of ChristianitySlide11
Christian MonasticismChristianity and the Roman StateImperial support for Christianity
Gelasius
I: emperor has power, priests have authority
Christianity and the Eastern State
Actually, “first”Eventually, alternate and minority to RomeMany varieties of Christian Experience
The Triumph of ChristianitySlide12
The Secular Culture of Late Antiquity
Philosophy
Neoplatonism
Science and Medicine
LawSlide13
The Visual ArtsEspecially related to architecture/buildings
Sculpture
Paintings/Mosaics
T
here’s LOTS of this stuff left. Perhaps more remnants than in any prior periodSlide14
The Legacy of Late AntiquityWe become what they started: Fragmented, with over-riding unities.
Really, we’re not very Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek, Roman. We like to think of ourselves as Western because of them, but we aren’t.
I
nstead
: We are from a wide variety of mostly European nationalities, with over-riding tones of classicism and Judeo-Christianity sprinkled in.