History/Medieval Studies 303

Syllabus: 
• Policies on grading and papers.
• Listing of lectures and required and recommended readings for each area.
 
Readings: 
• Book List: 
               Required and suggested books. 
• Iconoclasm:
            Iconoclast and Iconodule positions. 
• Discussion Topics:
            Layout of discussion topics and possible essays for each. 

Chronologies: 
        Important dates to remember (invasions, wars, ect.). 

• Imperial Crisis 
• Later Roman Emperors, 306-395 
• Fall of Western Empire 
• Age of Justinian 
• Islamic Caliphs 
• Byzantine Dark Age 
• Triumph of Christianity 
• Macedonian Resurgence 
• First and Fourth Crusades 
• Restoration and Ottoman Advance 
 
Handouts: 
• Populations
• Finances under Justinian
• Byzantium c.850A.D.
 
Currency charts: 
          Coin, wages, and prices.
• Diocletian and Constantine 
• Justinian and Heraclius 
• Isaurian, Amorian, and Macedonian Ages 
• Comnenian and Palaeogian Ages
 
Links: 
        Links to other universities' projects on Classics and Ancient History, including maps and images.