HIST 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caesaropapism, Lombards, Western Roman Empire
4 Feb 2015
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Objective: to compare the trajectory of the byzantine church and empire to the roman church: political overview 485-754, the byzantine church, caesaropapism, pentarchy, religious unity. Constantinople"s rule started the idea of naming your sons or children as successors. The western empire grows and shrinks but essentially survives until the fall of. Byzantines inherit a powerful army that allows them to withstand the attacks from the east. Carthage, alexandria, and antioch = important capitals/places. End of 5th centuryeastern emperors had to work to make sure the last western emperors were put into power and make sure they are favorable to eastern interest. Early 6th some light is seen with justinian ~527-65ce: seen as a distinct era because they take back a bunch of countries/provinces, re-established roman control, got the black sea which had never been under roman rule before. 590-630: expand rapidly, which puts them into conflict with __________________. Christian church is the entity that steps into take the reigns.
