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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
The Empire and Christianity

Chapter Outline

I. The Empire at Its Height

  1. The Successors of Augustus
  2. The Five Good Emperors
  3. Roman Imperial Civilization

II. The Period of Crisis (192-284)

  1. The Crisis of Leadership
  2. Weaknesses in the Institution of Slavery
  3. The Plight of the Poor

III. The Late Roman Empire

  1. Restoration under Diocletian
  2. Constantine and the Bureaucracy
  3. The Decline of the Western Empire

IV. Christianity and Its Early Rivals

  1. The Mystery Religions
  2. The Jews in the Roman Empire
  3. Origins of Christianity
  4. Battles within Christianity
  5. The Fathers of the Church








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