HIST 331,    Medieval Mediterranean
(Also listed as CORE 365, JC)

Primary sources:

The papacy

• Pope Leo meets Attila the Hun

•  Council of Sardica: Canon V 343

•  Gelasius I on Spiritual and Temporal Power, 494

•  Valentian I: Decree on Papal Power 445 

•  Conversion of England

•  Gregory I: An Activist Pope [590-604]

•  Paul the Deacon, Gregory the Great and the Lombards

The east

• The Historical Development of Greek Orthodoxy

• Justinian, Novel 137, Regulating Church Ritual

• Justinian, Novella 146, On Jews 

The west

• The conversion of Clovis

•  Theodoric the Visigoth

•  Theodoric the Ostrogoth

•  Professions of Faith Extracted from Jews on Baptism 

Secondary works:

• T. S. Brown, "The Church of Ravenna and the Imperial Administration in the Seventh Century," The English Historical Review, 94 (1979): 1-28. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28197901%2994%3A370%3C1%3ATCORAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P

• William M. Daly, "Clovis: How Barbaric, How Pagan?" Speculum, 69 (1994): 619-664.
  Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0038-7134%28199407%2969%3A3%3C619%3ACHBHP%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0

• Deno J. Geanakoplos "Church and State in the Byzantine Empire: A Reconsideration of the Problem of Caesaropapism," Church History 34 (1965): 381-403. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0009-6407%28196512%2934%3A4%3C381%3ACASITB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-J

• Peter Heather, "The Huns and the End of the Roman Empire in Western Europe," The English Historical Review 110 (1995): 4-41 .
  Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28199502%29110%3A435%3C4%3ATHATEO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M

• Peter Llewellyn, "The Popes and the Constitution in the Eighth Century," The English Historical Review, 101 (1986): 42-67. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0013-8266%28198601%29101%3A398%3C42%3ATPATCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N

• John Meyendorff, "Continuities and Discontinuities in Byzantine Religious Thought,"Dumbarton Oaks Papers 47 (1993): 69-81.
  Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0070-7546%281993%2947%3C69%3ACADIBR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23

Some suggestions for class participation/discussion:

• Ask the class to speculate how the economy and the ecology of the Mediterranean region influenced the Roman empire during this period.

• Debate the causes for the different development of the eastern and western Christian church -- were they geographical, doctrinal, social, or caused by outside forces?