Prof.
Andrea Sterk
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Office:
220 Keene-Flint; Phone: 392-0271, x257
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| E-mail:
sterk@history.ufl.edu |
Office
Hours: TU 2:00-3:30, F 9:30-10:30, or by
appointment
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Course Description:
This seminar
will introduce graduate students to the central sources, themes, and
historiographical debates in the field of Late Antiquity. Special
empahsis will be placed on religious developments and the rise of
Europe.
For a full syllabus of
readings and assignments, click
here: Syllabus.
Schedule of Weekly Topics:
1.
Aug. 24 Introduction
2. Aug.
31
Defining Late Antiquity
a) Introduction to Historiography & Geography
b) Christianization
3.
Sept. 7 Diocletian:
Administering the Revived Empire
a) Third-Century Crises
b) Religion & Empire
4. Sept.
14 Constantine
and the New Empire
Additional Reading: Zosimus,
Historia Nova II.29-34
a) Eusebius on
Constantine
b) Constantine, Religion, & Empire
5. Sept. 21
Religion & the State
Macmullen article
a) The
Reign of Julian
b) Pagans, Christians, & the
Law in the Fourth Century
6. Sept.
28
Education and Authority
a)
The Church Fathers
and Education
b) Old &
New Models
7. Oct.
5
New
and Old Elites, Part I: Senators and
Bishops
a) Ambrose, Symmachus and Friends
b) Christian Aristocracy,
Christian Empire
8.
Oct.
12
New and Old Elites, Part
II: Bishops, Monks, and Ascetics
a) The West
b) The East
9.
Oct.
19
Barbarians, the Economy, and
the Fall of Rome
[We will not meet as a seminar this week. Instead
I will meet with you individually to
discuss your final paper topics.
However, you are
responsible for completing
this week’s reading and reaction
paper, which will form the subject of our discussion during the first
part of
our
seminar Oct. 26]
10.
Oct.
26
The Fall of Rome (cont.)
Nov.
1
(Wednesday): Lunch with Daniel Boyarin,
12:30-2:30
11.
Nov.
2
Saints, Cities, Christianization, & the Jews
(5th-6th century)
12.
Nov.
9
The West: The Rise of
Christian Europe
13. Nov. 16 The
View from the East: Byzantium & Beyond
Nov.
23:
THANKSGIVING – No class
14. Nov. 30
Revisiting Decline,
Fall, & Late
Antiquity as an Epoch
Reports
15. Dec.
7 Reports
Dec. 11 (Monday) Final Papers Due