"From Village to Empire:

A Brief History of the Roman Empire"

Spring 2018

Week 6

In hoc signo vinces

Age of Crisis (AD 235-284)

"Tetrarchy" (AD 295)

"new Rome" (AD 324-330)

Non plus ultra? (AD 476)

Roma Aeterna

Septimius Severus (AD 193-211)

reformer

Caracalla (AD 198-217)

the constitutio Antoniniana (AD 212)

Roman citizenship

"soldier-emperor" s. AD 235

Thousand years (AD 248)

Age of crisis

Invictus

Decius (AD 249-250)

Valerian (AD 257-259

Valerian (AD 260)

Aurelian (AD 270-275)

"Hand-on-Sword"

restorer

Palmyra, Gallia (+), Dacia (-)

Aurelian Walls

Sol Invictus

Diocletian (AD 284-306)

Dominate

Antony (AD 285), monasticism

"Tetrarchy" (AD 293)

Augustus/Caesar, dioceses (vicar)

"peace of gods" (AD 303)

Constantine (AD 306-337)

Milvian Bridge (AD 312)

X – P (In hoc signo vinces)

Milan Edict (AD 313)

Lord’s Day (AD 321)

Baptism

Constantinople

New Rome (AD 324-330)

Council of Nicea (AD 325)

St. Peter’s Basilica (AD 349)

Julian (AD 361-363)

Altar of Victory (AD 382)

Theodosius (AD 379-395)

"federates" (Go West!)

official religion (AD 391)

paganism

Bishop Ambrose

AD 395 (West – East)

Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube

'Let others wage war: thou, happy Austria, marry'.

Romulus Augustulus (AD 475-476)

AD 410 (Visigoths), AD 455 (Vandals)

"what will be left to us?"

Orestes, Ravenna

Odoacer (4 Sep 476)

"king in Italy"

Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube

'Let others wage war: thou, happy Austria, marry'.

Justinian (AD 527-565)

Theodora

"restoration" (Belisarius)

Hagia Sophia (AD 538)

central government

Codex iustinianus

Lingua latina

Valete historiae romanae amici!

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