Outline: Byzantine
I. The Collapse of the Western Roman Empire
II. The Reign of Justinian (527-565
A.D.)
a. attempted to restore
the Empire
b. Belisarius and the
reconquest of the west
c. the Corpus Juris Civilis
the legacy of Roman Law
d. rebuilding program
III The Byzantine Empire
A. Reign of Justinian (527-565)
i. Codification of Roman Law
ii. Intellectual Life under Justinian: Procopius’ History
iii. Justinian’s Building Program: Hagia Sophia
iv. defense of eastern Europe
B. Eastern Roman to Byzantine Empire
i. Frontier Insecurity - attacks by Moslems
ii. Iconoclastic Controversy
iii. Emperor and Orthodoxy
iv. Separation from the West
IV. Later Byzantium:
A. Politics:
i. the role of the emperor:
"the thirteenth apostle"
ii. the theme system and the military
iii. the bureaucracy
B. The schism with the
Latin (Roman Catholic) Church
the issues
C. The Crusades
i. the expansion of Islam and the Battle of Manzikert -- 1071
ii. to the west for help:
a. the emperor Alexis
his daughter Anna Comnena
the attitude toward the west
b. the Peasants' Crusade:
Peter the Hermit
the destruction of the byzantine countryside
their fate
c. the "official crusade"
the western princes
the Latin States
the violation of the pact with Alexis
iii. the second and third crusades
Philip of France
Richard the Lionhearted
Frederick Barbarosa -- his death
iv. the fourth crusade
the conquest of Constantinople in 1204
Christian against Christian
v. legacy of the crusades:
a. conflict between east and west
b. the new knowledge channeled to the west as a result of the crusades