The World of Byzantium (2001)
January. 01,2001
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This early (2001) and short (24 lectures) Harl course discusses events most of us have heard of but with a different “flavor”. Astounding Byzantine research brings both depth and clarity to events that didn’t “seem to make much sense”. Harl also shows who many modern social mechanisms that we “take for granted" arose.
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Episode 1 - Imperial Crisis and Reform
January. 01,2001
A century of crisis between A.D. 193 and 305 propelled the Roman world out of the classical into the early medieval age. After A.D. 235, a series of civil wars and invasions shattered the peace of the 60-million-subject Empire, profoundly changed all aspects of life, and set the stage for the rise of the civilization that would be known as Byzantium.