HIST 2904 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Valentinian Ii, Constantius Chlorus, Magnus Maximus
17 Mar 2015
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Major councils - nicaea (325); ephesus (431); chalcedon (451) All dealt with problems of developing theology. Results of schisms - bloodshed, war, persecution, exile. Many divisions - empire struggles to set correct belief, enforce it. These three religions: christianity, judaism and paganism a lot of borrowing but late antique period they get the idea of going to church from jewish synagogues. Dealing with an intensely religious world much more than what we currently have so these divisions people are willing to lay their lives down over this issue because they firmly believe what they are talking about. Main source: amiantus marcellinus a historian and one of the best that antiquity ever produced because of his background and his job. Peagan and a soldier, born in 330 or so, at antioch. He is posted as a staff officer to ursicinus general of constantus ii service in italy, gaul,
