Course Syllabus
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Lecture 1 The Emerging Empire of New Rome, 284–457
Lecture 2 Justinian and the Reconquest of the West, 457–565
Lecture 3 The City of Constantinople: A Guided Tour of the Greatest City in the Western World
Lecture 4 The Turn Eastward, 565–717
Lecture 5 Survival, 717–867
Lecture 6 A Golden Age: The Macedonian Dynasty, 867–1025
Lecture 7 Weakness and Wealth, 1025–1081
Lecture 8 The Turn to the West: The Comnenan Dynasty, 1081–1180
Lecture 9 Decline, Decay, and Destruction, 1180–1204
Lecture 10 Struggle for Byzantium’s Corpse, 1204–1261
Lecture 11 The Empire Reborn, 1261–1328
Lecture 12 The Final Decline, 1328–1391
Lecture 13 The Fall of Rome, 1391–1453
Lecture 14 Aftermath and Legacy
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Course Overview
In Empire of Gold: A History of the Byzantine Empire, esteemed
university professor Thomas F. Madden offers a fascinating series
of lectures on the history of the remarkable culture and state that
developed out of the ancient Roman Empire, particularly its eastern
portion, throughout the Middle Ages. The story here therefore begins
at an ending, that of the Roman Empire, in the third century AD,
and continues over the next one thousand years.
This new culture arising from the old will have a dramatic impact
on western European culture and on the culture of the Islamic East,
and most especially on the culture and modern history of Greeks,
Greek Orthodox, and Russians, who were all very much affected by
the Byzantine Empire. With incisive commentary, Professor Madden
leads a discussion covering Justinian’s reconquest of the West, the
great city of Constantinople, and the aftermath and influence of this
extraordinary empire.
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 Empire of Gold: A History of the Byzantine Empire (Booklet)
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Professor
Professor Thomas F. Madden
(Saint Louis University)
Thomas F. Madden is a professor of
history and director of the Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Saint
Louis University. His numerous scholarly
publications include Empires of Trust: How
Rome Built—and America Is Building—a
NewWorld (Dutton, 2008), The New
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