HIST 218 Lecture 7: lecture 7 (week 4)
23 Nov 2017
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The map and all the lecture slides are on onq. The midterm will be: map question, 2 short answer/identification questions, essay, will be worth 30% Theophilos die sin 842, power passes to regency council for michael lll. The empress theodora took over for her 3 years old son and assisted by members of her immediate family. Icons restored 843- theodora supported icons so she brought back icons into byzantium. Michaels history gets rewritten- question of how much is true and how it is skewed- his successor wanted to claim legitimacy so he wrote stories of michael and stresses his irresponsibility. Seems to have been more interested in drinking then running the empire. 855 (uncle) bardas outs theoktistis and theodora, controls empire (for michael) to 865: a time of reconsolidation, a time when the empire is put back together. Posen 863- victory against arabs in eastern anatolia.
