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CLST 277 / CATH 200 / MSTU 298: The World of Late AntiquitySpring Semester 2012
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The reading assignments yield essential preparation for class meetings
and discussions:
complete the reading before the day for which a reading is listed;
review it again as needed.
| W 1/18 | Introduction: Entering the Roman World
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| F 1/20 | Empire and Change in the Third Century
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| M 1/23 | Old-Time Religions
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| W 1/25 | Christian Conversion in Roman Society |
| F 1/27 | Religious Enforcement by Decius
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| M 1/30 | The Formation of the Tetrarchy
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| W 2/1 | Imperial Care for the Economy
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| F 2/3 | The Great Persecution
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| M 2/6 | Christian Polemical History: Persecuting Emperors
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| W 2/8 | Christian Polemical History: Evidence and Spin
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| F 2/10 | Christian Polemical History: Assessing Evidence
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| M 2/13 | Constantine
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| W 2/15 | The "Rhetoric" of Imperial Capitals
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| F 2/17 | Exam I |
| M 2/20 | Imperial Power and Roman Religion
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| W 2/22 | It was a Dark and Stormy Empire: Contemporary Narrative History
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| F 2/24 | The Subject in Roman History
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| M 2/27 | Roman Society and Its Discontents
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| W 2/29 | Catch a Rising Star
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| F 3/2 | Julian the Retrograde
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| M 3/5 - Sa 3/10 | No classes. MIDSEMESTER BREAK! |
| M 3/12 | The Emperor, the Ideals, the Real City, and a Failure to Communicate
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| W 3/14 | Growing up in a Roman Provincial Family of Mixed Religious Belief
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| F 3/16 | Monnica and Women's Christianity
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| M 3/19 | Late Roman Education
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| W 3/21 | Late Antique Aesthetics and Culture
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| F 3/23 | Pleasures
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| M 3/26 | Swimming with Manichees
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| W 3/28 | Exam II |
| F 3/30 | Imperial Transitions
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| M 4/2 | Rome's Army
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| W 4/04 | Violence and Corruption in International Relations
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| Th 4/5 (4:15 PM) - M 4/9 (4:15 PM) | No classes. EASTER BREAK! |
| W 4/11 | The Controversial Altar of Victory
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| F 4/13 | Ambrose the Bishop
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| M 4/16 | Augustine in Milan
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| W 4/18 | Christian Commitment
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| F 4/20 | Holy Places: Contact and Transcendence
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| M 4/23 | Christians and Jews
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| W 4/25 | Ambrose and Theodosius: Articulating the Powers of Church and State
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| F 4/27 | Legacy of the Later Roman Empire
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| W 5/2 (till 4:15pm) | Study Day: no exams |
1:00pm - 3:00pm |
Final examination.
See Loyola's Final Exam Schedule. |
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