Week 6 (September 28-October 2)
Survival and change, 610-780 [see the on-line maps
of Byzantium ca.
650 and ca.
750]
- The many faces of the seventh century [Shepard 221-248]
- From Heraclius to Justinian II [Gregory 160-181; Geanakoplos 64-67 (nos. 41-43), 133-134 (no.
98A), 335-339 (nos. 249-250)]; see al-Baladhuri's account of
the battle
at the Yarmuk river; see also R. Scott Moore, Heraclius,
Constans
II, Constantine
IV , and Justinian
II , as well as Judith Herrin, Byzantium
Confronted by Islam; see a map of the main
Anatolian
themes, a portrait of Khusro
II on a Sassanian drachm (silver coin); one of Constantine IV on a Byzantine hexagram; a hexagram of his father, Emperor Constans II; and a brief presentation of the Greek fire
- Contraction, disruption, and change: towards a medieval society
[chapter by John Haldon in Haldon; Geanakoplos 231-234
(no. 166 - The
Farmer's Law), 260 (no. 184), 273-275 (nos. 196-197), and 296-297
(no. 213)]; see a map of the theme
system and another of the city of Amorium (with pictures from the recent excavation of the Middle Byzantine kastron)
