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The Western Experience book cover
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

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THE "PALACE" OF DIOCLETIAN ATSPLIT: A UNIQUE STRUCTURE from the LATER ROMAN EMPIRE, by Mi...
(http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Experimental/split/split1.html)

The "Best of" EdwardGibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
(http://www.his.com/~z/gibbon.html)

CHRISTIAN EMPERORS, PERSIA, AND THEFALL OF ROME
(http://www.fsmitha.com/h1/ch24.htm)

Gender Issues

Women In Ancient Christianity: The New Discoveries
(www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/women.html)

Scholar Karen King examines the evidence concerning women's important place in early Christianity. She draws a surprising new portrait of Mary Magdalene and outlines the stories of previously unknown early Christian women.
The Martyrdom of Saints Perpetua and Felicitas
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/perpetua.html)

This is the prison diary of a young woman martyred in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.