Late antiquity : crisis and transformation
(DVD)

pt. 1: disc 1. lecture 1. The world of late antiquity ; lecture 2. The crisis of the 3rd century ; lecture 3. The new empire of Diocletian ; lecture 4. Constantine's Roman revolution ; lecture 5. The house of Constantine, 337-363 ; lecture 6. The end of a Unified Empire -- disc. 2. lecture 7. Ruling the Roman Empire, the imperial center ; lecture 8. Ruling the Roman Empire, the provinces ; lecture 9. The barbarians, ethnicity and identity ; lecture 10. Rome and the barbarians ; lecture 11. Barbarian kingdoms, Gaul ; lecture 12. Barbarian kingdoms, Spain and North Africa --

Pt. 2: disc 3. lecture 13. Barbarian kingdoms, Italy ; lecture 14. The Eastern Empire in the 5th century; lecture 15. The end of the Western Empire ; lecture 16. The age of Justinian, 527-565 ; lecture 17. The Christianization of the Roman world ; lecture 18. Christianity and the Roman state -- disc 4. lecture 19. The rise of the Roman Church ; lecture 20. The call of the desert, monasticism ; lecture 21. Monasticism, solitaries and communities ; lecture 22. The church fathers, talking about God ; lecture 23. Patristic portraits ; lecture 24. "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" --

pt. 3: disc 5. lecture 25. Graven images, Christianity's visual arts ; lecture 26. The universal in the local, cities ; lecture 27. Rome and Constantinople ; lecture 28. Visigothic Spain and Merovingian Gaul ; lecture 29. Celt and Saxon in the British Isles ; lecture 30. The birth of Byzantium

disc 6. lecture 31. Byzantium, crisis and recovery ; lecture 32. Muhammad and the rise of Islam ; lecture 33. The rise of Caliphate ; lecture 34. Material life in late antiquity ; lecture 35. The social world of late antiquity ; lecture 36 What happened, and why does it matter?