Readings in Early Byzantine History

History 505.01

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#1. Eusebius: The Conversion of Constantine

#2. Constantine I: Laws for Christians

 #3. Sozomen (died ca. 450), Ecclesiastical History, II.3: Constantine Founds Constantinople

#4. Julian the Apostate, Letter to Arsacius

#5. The Dispute over the Altar of Victory in Rome

#6. Ammianus Marcellinus: The Battle of Adrianopole, AD 378

#7. Evagrius: St. Simeon Stylites

#8. Prokopius: On Racing Factions

#9. Theophanes: Chronicle,  on the Greens and Blues

#10. Prokopios: De Aedificiis, on the Great Church, [Hagia Sophia]

#11. Prokopios, The Reconquest of Africa, 534: On the Wars IV.9

#12. Theophanes on the Emperor Herakleios

#13. The Life of St. Theodore of Sykeon

#14. The Qu'ran - 1, 47

#15. Pact of Umar, 7th Century ?

#16. The Farmer's Law, 7-8th Centuries

#16A. Theophanes on Leo III

#17. John of Damascus: In Defense of Icons, c. 730

#18. Iconoclastic Council, 754

#19. Decree of the Second Council of Nicea, 787