| Description |
12 sound discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 177 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm) |
| Series |
The great courses. History, Ancient history |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
Compact discs. |
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Unabridged. |
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24 lectures on 12 audio discs with 1 course guidebook. |
| Contents |
1. Imperial crisis and reform -- 2. Constantine -- 3. State and society under the dominate -- 4. Imperial Rome and the barbarians -- 5. The rise of Christianity -- 6. Imperial church and Christian dogma -- 7. The friends of God--Ascetics and monks -- 8. The fall of the Western empire -- 9. The age of Justinian -- 10. The reconquest of the West -- 11. The search for religious unity -- 12. The birth of Christian aesthetics and letters -- 13. The Emperor Heraclius -- 14. The Christian citadel -- 15. Life in the Byzantine dark age -- 16. The iconoclastic controversy -- 17. Recovery under the Macedonian emperors -- 18. Imperial zenith--Basil II -- 19. Imperial collapse -- 20. Alexius I and the first crusade -- 21. Comnenian emperors and crusaders -- 22. Imperial exile and restoration -- 23. Byzantine letters and aesthetics -- 24. The fall of Constantinople. |
| Performer |
Lectures delivered by Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University. |
| Summary |
A study of the Byzantine Empire from earliest times to the fall of Constantinople in 1453. |
| Subject |
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337.
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Church history -- Sound recordings.
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Emperors -- Rome -- Biography -- Sound recordings.
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Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. -- Sound recordings.
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Byzantine Empire -- History -- Sound recordings.
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| Genre |
Audiobooks.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
9781565853393 |
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1565853393 |
| Music No. |
367 Teaching Company |
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