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ARTD 3015: The Development of the Silk Road: 5. Europe

An OER for Professor Anna Carroll

Major Assignments Unit 5

April 12 (Tuesday): Exhibition Due

April 26 (Tuesday): Optional Extra Credit Due

Unit 5: Rome

 

April 12 (Tuesday): Rome

Major assignments due: Exhibition Due

 

Readings due before class:

  • “Rome Looks East,” in The Silk Road in World History (PDF on course website)

This reading is longer than what is usually assigned, so please give yourself time to complete it.

Unit 5: Byzantium

April 14 (Thursday): Byzantium

Readings due before class:

  • Anna Maria Muthesius, “Silk, Power and Diplomacy in Byzantium,” 

This is a specialized essay, so please make note of any questions you have while reading and we will go over them in class

Optional Resources: Unit 5

Fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire by 1203: This video should gives an overview of the dire situation the empire was in before the Fourth Crusade ever arrived in Constantinople. The Eastern Roman Empire was in a state of unrelenting decline and was breacking apart by the time the Fourth Crusade arrived at Constantinople in 1203. Foreign conquest and break away states were often a result of the total failure of the imperial government to deal with the issues the provinces had, be they abuses by local magnates or foreign incursions. Many local magnets started to rule in their own right to deal with the issues that the Angeloi dynasty did not.

Unit 6: Vikings

April 19 (Tuesday): NO CLASS

April 21 (Thursday): NO CLASS

April 26 (Tuesday): Vikings

Readings due before class:

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