Description
This course provides an advanced survey of Christianity in its Mediterranean context from its beginnings to the rise of Islam. Participants in the course will examine the lives of significant women and men in the development of popular movements and institutions. The course will cover such topics as martyrdom, persecution, church and state, orthodoxy and heresy, asceticism, and monasticism. An aim of the course will be to trace the development of various regional traditions of Christianity, for example, in Gaul, Ethiopia, Roman Africa, and the Persian frontier.