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Lecture 17 of 22Lecture 17
The Crucial Seventh Century
Paul Freedman · Yale University
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All the lectures
- Course Introduction: Rome’s Greatness and First Crises
- The Crisis of the Third Century and the Diocletianic Reforms
- Constantine and the Early Church
- The Christian Roman Empire
- St. Augustine’s Confessions
- Transformation of the Roman Empire
- Barbarian Kingdoms
- Survival in the East
- The Reign of Justinian
- Clovis and the Franks
- Frankish Society
- Britain and Ireland
- Monasticism
- Mohammed and the Arab Conquests
- Islamic Conquests and Civil War
- The Splendor of the Abbasid Period
- The Crucial Seventh Century
- The Splendor of Byzantium
- Charlemagne
- Intellectuals and the Court of Charlemagne
- Crisis of the Carolingians
- Vikings / The European Prospect, 1000