Late antiquity, early Christianity, and the Byzantine Empire
Monday, March 15, 2010
10:04 AM
Romans having a lot of trouble with the Germanic tribes
At Marcus Aurelius the Roman Empire doesn't stretch any further
After Marcus Aurelius things go into disarray
Things stable out with Septimius Severus
Really the last dynasty
Then the soldier empowers
All generals
Several emperors in several years
Civil warfare
Things falling apart
Diocletian
New form of government
The Dominate
Totalitarian
All authority in one guy
The techtrachy - rule by four
Splits the empire into two parts - west and east
Two in charge of west - two in charge of east
War between the two most powerful - Mexentius and Constantine the First
Had a great battle - Battle of Milvian Bridge
Constantine wins the battle
He saw a Christian image
Becomes the sole leader
Makes Christianity legal
Moves capital to Constantinople
Late Antiquity
- End of Roman Crisis of the third Century
- Reformation of eastern empire
- Christianization of the empire
- Rome is sacked
- Originally the Christians had to meet in secret
- In Rome they met in secret
- After late antiquity Christianity spreads to everything that used to be the Roman Empire
- Used coded language and coded art to get their ideas together
- Met in the catacombs
- Christian and Constantinople art
Byzantine Empire
- Basically the land of the eastern roman empire
- Goes well into the renaissance
- Justinian tries to merge the church and state together
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