LECTURE FOR APRIL 3:  THE EASTERN EMPIRE IN THE FIFTH CENTURY

 

Map:

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Links to map of Empire in                 AD 400                     AD 500

 

 

 

The Quintessential Barbarian:  Attila the Hun in modern imagination

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Constantinople:

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Why the barbarians can't get in:  the Land Walls

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Hippodrome Obelisk:

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Women in charge:  an Augusta from the fifth century

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The empress Pulcheria

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Pulcheria's model:  the Virgin Mary

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Pulcheria receiving the relics of John the Baptist, from the Trier Ivory:

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A new defense strategy:  military saints

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The military martyr Mercurius destroys an enemy of the faith:

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