In the previous lecture, we saw the Byzantine Empire try and regain its holdings in the West. These attempts, while initially successful, ultimately failed. With the Roman state largely gone in the West and the fractured nature of Europe with barbarian kingdoms, there really was one final authority in the West, the Church and this is the subject of this lecture. We will be looking at the Church from the death of Jesus up to the death of Pope Gregory the Great. This lecture will lay the foundations necessary for discussing the Church and its interactions with various kings in the future lectures as we explore Anglo-Saxon England, Ireland, and Merovingian Gaul.
Rome 07: The Punic Wars
Rome 06: The Conquest of Italy
Rome 05: The Institutions of the Roman Republic
Rome 04 - The Mythical Origins of Rome
Rome 03: The Ancient Italian Peninsula
Rome 02: The Ancient Mediterranean
Rome 01: Early Writing Cultures
Ancient Greece 22: The Achaean War
Ancient Greece 21: The Macedonian Wars
Ancient Greece 20: The Pyrrhic War
Ancient Greece 15: Hellenism
Ancient Greece 11: The Peloponnesian War
Ancient Greece 10: The Persian Wars
Ancient Greece 07: Sparta
Ancient Greece 06: Ancient Greek Geography and Military
Ancient Greece 05: The Polis
Ancient Greece 04: The Greek Renaissance
Ancient Greece 03: The Dark Ages and Homeric Society
Ancient Greece 02: The Ancient Mediterranean
Ancient Greece 01 - Early Writing Cultures
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