World of Byzantium by Kenneth W. Harl (Mp3)

1. Imperial Crisis and Reform
2. Constantine
3. State and Society Under the Dominate
4. Imperial Rome and the Barbarians
5. The Rise of Christianity
6. Imperial Church and Christian Dogma
7. The Friends of God—Ascetics and Monks
8. The Fall of the Western Empire
9. The Age of Justinian
10. The Reconquest of the West
11. The Search for Religious Unity
12. The Birth of Christian Aesthetics and Letters
13. The Emperor Heraclius
14. The Christian Citadel
15. Life in the Byzantine Dark Age
16. The Iconoclastic Controversy
17. Recovery Under the Macedonian Emperors
18. Imperial Zenith—Basil II
19. Imperial Collapse
20. Alexius I and the First Crusade
21. Comnenian Emperors and Crusaders
22. Imperial Exile and Restoration
23. Byzantine Letters and Aesthetics
24. The Fall of Constantinople

About the Author: Kenneth W. Harl is Professor of Classical and Byzantine History at Tulane University in New Orleans, where he has been teaching since 1978. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Trinity College and went on to earn his Master’s and Ph.D. from Yale University.

Dr. Harl specializes in the Mediterranean civilizations of Greece, Rome, Egypt, and Byzantium. He has published numerous articles and is the author of Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, A.D. 180-275 and Coinage in the Roman Economy, 300 B.C. to A.D. 700. He is also a veteran field researcher who has served since 1999 on the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Archaeology.


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