Chapter Outline

I. The Byzantine Empire, ca. 400 -- 1000 [WEB: Byzantium] [IMG: City Plan of Constantinople [zoomable]]

II. Byzantine Government [TXT: Sozomen (d. c. 450): Constantine Founds Constantinople, 324, from Ecclesiastical History 2.3]

III. Byzantine Christianity

1. Role of Emperor [TXT: Corpus Iuris Civilis [selections]]
2. Iconoclasm [TXT: John of Damascus: In Defence of Icons, c 730, extracts]

IV. Byzantine Culture

1. Art [TXT: Procopius: Description of Hagia Sophia] [WEB: Hagia Sophia: Photo and Video Gallery]
2. Literature

V. The Byzantine Centuries

1. Age of Justinian 527-565 [TXT: Procopius: On Justinian, from Secret History][IMG: Theodora][IMG: The Empire Under Justinian, c. 565]
2. Rentrenchment c. 570-850 [IMG: Greek Fire in Use. Madrid Skylitzes Manuscript]
3. Macedonian Revival c. 850-1050 [TXT: Liutprand of Cremona (c.922-c.972): Report on Mission to Constantinople, 963, excerpts]
1. Conquests
2. Conversion of the Slavs [TXT: Russian Primary Chronicle: The Christianisation of Russia, 988]

4. Retrenchment c. 1050-1453
1. Manzikert
2. Cultural Survival