MEDI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Diocletian, Torah Ark, Pontifex Maximus
11 Oct 2018
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Tales, written ca 1387-1400): the church as a built environment, a. judaism from antiquity to the middle ages, the synagogue as a built environment, a. islam in the middle ages, the mosque as a built environment. Following the assassination of emperor severus alexander in c. e. 235, fifty years of political and economic instability ensued exacerbated by plague, civil war and invasion. 268, the empire had split into three distinct states. Central authority waned, and landowners assumed greater local/regional authority. This is the beginning of europe"s gradual transformation to the fragmented authority of the early middle ages. Empire and an eastern empire each with its own emperor. Two caesars (junior emperors) are appointed in c. e. Diocletian and maximian abdicate; the caesars are promoted to the rank of. Augustus (senior emperor) and appoint two new caesars. 305, constantius and galerius become joint augusti; maximinus and. Flavius valerius severus become cesari hence, the tetrarchy (rule of four)
