HIST 1300 Lecture 3: Barbarians
9 Mar 2017
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Inclusive: anyone can be christian, you just have to believe. Catholic (small c" catholic, universal) vs. elect (not everyone in the catholic church is. Is not exclusive, there are many gods. Martyrs, confessors (christians, but were not persecuted for some reason; hugely influential in the formation of the christian doctrine) Did not spill their blood, but in a way did sacrifice their lives e. g. antony. Ethnogenesis (the creation of ethnicities) theory of modern european national identities (19th c. ) Anthropology of the past - there needs to be living people in order to really study the culture. Rome and the barbarians (4th - 5th cent. ) Sack of rome (410) and the roman army. First time a major city has been sacked. Now anything seems possible for both the barbarians and the romans. Adopts a lot of the roman infrastructure: keeps taxation process, senate, How king theodoric refers to his kingdom.
