Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World
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Reading through Looking Preface Abbreviations and Symbols Authorized Version of the Bible I. Prelude: The Roman World Transformed (c.300-c.600) A Christianized Empire 1.1 Toleration or favoritism? The Edict of Milan (313) 1.2 Law: The Theodosian Code (438) 1.3 Plague: Gregory the Great, Letter to Bishop Dominic of Carthage (600) Heresy and Orthodoxy 1.4 Heretics: Manichaean Texts (before 350?) 1.5 Orthodoxy's declaration: The Nicene Creed (325) Patristic Thought 1.6 Conversion: Augustine, Confessions (397-401) 1.7 Relating this world to the next: Augustine, The City of God (413-426) 1.8 Monasticism: The Benedictine Rule (c.530-c.560) Saintly Models 1.9 The virginal life: Jerome, Letter 24 (To Marcella) (384) 1.10 The eremitical life: Athanasius, The Life of St. Antony of Egypt (357) 1.11 The active life: Sulpicius Severus, The Life of St. Martin of Tours (397) 1.12 The cult of saints: Gregory of Tours, The Life of Monegundis (580s) Barbarian Kingdoms 1.13 Gothic Italy as Rome's heir: Cassiodorus, Variae (State Papers) (c.507-536) 1.14 The conversion of the Franks: Bishop Avitus of Vienne, Letter to Clovis (508?) 1.15 Gothic Spain converts: The Third Council of Toledo (589) 1.16 Merovingian Gaul's bishop-historian: Gregory of Tours, Histories (576-594) Timeline for Chapter One II. The Emergence of Sibling Cultures (c.600-c.750) The Resilience of Byzantium 2.1 The Siege of Constantinople: The Easter Chronicle (630) Map 2.1: The Siege of Constantinople 2.2 Purifying practice: The Quinisext Council (691/692) 2.3 The iconoclastic argument: The Synod of 754 The Formation of the Islamic World 2.4 The sacred text: Qur'an Suras 1, 53:1-18, 81, 87, 96, 98 (c.610-622) 2.5 Muslim conquests: John of Nikiu, Chronicle (c.690) Map 2.2: The Muslim Conquest of Egypt 2.6 Umayyad diplomacy: The Treaty of Tudmir (713) 2.7 Administration: Letters to 'Abd Allah b. As'ad (c.730-750) 2.8 Praising the caliph: Al-Akhtal, The Tribe Has Departed (c.692) The Impoverished but Inventive West 2.9 The private penitential tradition: Penitential of Finnian (late 6th cent.) 2.10 A royal saint: The Life of Queen Balthild (c.680) 2.11 Reforming the continental Church: Letters to Boniface (723-726) 2.12 Creating a Roman Christian identity for England: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731) Timeline for Chapter Two III. Creating New Identities (c.750-c.900) The Material Basis of Society 3.1 Manors in the West: Polyptyque of the Church of Saint Mary of Marseille (814-815) 3.2 The Byzantine countryside: Niketas, The Life of Saint Philaretos (821/822) 3.3 The sale of a slave in Italy: A Contract of Sale (725) A Multiplicity of Heroes 3.4 Charlemagne as Roman emperor: Einhard, Life of Charlemagne (825-826?) 3.5 An Abbasid victory in verse: Abu Tammam, The sword gives truer tidings (838) 3.6 Mothers and fathers: Dhuoda, Handbook for Her Son (841-843) 3.7 A Christian hero in northern Iberia: The Chronicle of Alfonso III (early 880s) 3.8 Celebrating local leaders: Abbo of Saint-Germain-des-Pres, Battles of the City of Paris (late 9th cent.) Religion and Politics 3.9 An early view of the Prophet: Muhammad ibn Ishaq, Life of Muhammad (754-767) 3.10 Muhammad's words in the hadith: Al-Bukhari, On Fasting (9th cent.) 3.11 The pope and the Carolingians: Pope Stephen II, Letters to King Pippin III (755-756) 3.12 Modeling the state on Old Testament Israel: The Admonitio Generalis (789) 3.13 The Slavic conversion: Constantine-Cyril, Prologue to the Gospel (863-867) 3.14 The Bulgarian khan in Byzantine guise: Seal of Boris-Michael (864-889) 3.15 The Bulgarians adopt Christianity: Pope Nicholas I, Letter to Answer the Bulgarians' Questions (866) Timeline for Chapter Three IV. Political Communities Reordered (c.900-c.1050) Regionalism: Its Advantages and Its Discontents 4.1 Fragmentation in the Islamic world: Al-Tabari, The Defeat of the Zanj Revolt (c.915) 4.2 The powerful in the Byzantine countryside: Romanus I Lecapenus, No