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2001

Format:	DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:	The world of Byzantium / Kenneth W. Harl.
Publisher, Date:	Chantilly, Va. : Teaching Co., ©2001.
Description:	4 videodiscs (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm). digital video videodisc DVD video file DVD
Summary:	A study of the Byzantine Empire from earliest times to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Series:	Great courses Great courses (DVD)
Subjects:	Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337. Church history. Emperors -- Rome -- Biography. Rome -- History -- Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D. Byzantine Empire -- History.
Genre:	Lectures. Biographical films. Educational films. Historical films. Nonfiction films.
Other Author:	Harl, Kenneth W. Teaching Company.
Notes:	Course Number 367: 24 lectures (30 minutes/lecture). Course guidebook includes scope, outline and readings for each lecture, timeline and biographical notes. Includes bibliographical references. 24 lectures delivered by Professor Kenneth W. Harl, Tulane University. DVD, region 1.
Contents:	part 1. lecture 1. Imperial crisis & reform -- lecture 2. Constantine -- lecture 3. State and society under the dominate -- lecture 4. Imperial Rome and the barbarians -- lecture 5. The rise of Christianity -- lecture 6. Imperial church & Christian dogma -- lecture 7. The friends of God, ascetics & monks -- lecture 8. The fall of the western empire -- lecture 9. The age of Justinian -- lecture 10. The reconquest of the west -- lecture 11. The search for religious unity -- lecture 12. Birth of Christian aesthetics and letters -- part 2. lecture 13. The Emperor Heraclius -- lecture 14. The Christian citadel -- lecture 15. Life in the Byzantine dark age -- lecture 16. The iconoclastic controversy -- lecture 17. Recovery under the Macedonian emperors -- lecture 18. Imperial zenith, Basil II -- lecture 19. Imperial collapse -- lecture 20. Alexius I & the first crusade -- lecture 21. Comnenian emperors and crusaders -- lecture 22. Imperial exile and restoration -- lecture 23. Byzantine letters and aesthetics -- lecture 24. The fall of Constantinople.
ISBN:	1565855957 9781565855953
Publisher Number:	367 365--366
Other Number:	52996568
System Availability:	4
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	188935
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# System items in:	3
Call Number:	GREAT DVD 949.5 World of

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