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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 ChristiansSlide5
Slide6

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.