TO THE UNIVERSITY

OF WISCONSIN

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. A BRIEF OUTLINE OF WORKS ON BYZANTINE HISTORY

A brief outline of the study of Byzantine History in Western

Europe.

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Early Studies. The Part Played by France. The Time of Du

Cange

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The Eighteenth Century and the Time of the Napoleonic Wars

Montesquieu

Gibbon

Lebeau

The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Ertov

Gregorovius

Bury

Lambros

Gelzer, H. .

Hesseling

Bussell.

The Cambridge Medieval History .

General Brief Sketches of the History of Byzantium

Byzantine Literature.

A Brief Outline of the Study of Byzantine History in Russia

The German Academicians. The Westerners and Slavophiles.

V. G. Vasilievsky

Kulakovsky, J. A.

Uspensky, Th. I. .

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Special Periodicals. General References Concerning Law, Art,

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CHAPTER II. THE EMPIRE FROM THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE THE

GREAT TO JUSTINIAN (FROM THE FOURTH CENTURY TO THE

BEGINNING OF THE SIXTH CENTURY)

Constantine the Great and Christianity

The Conversion of Constantine

The Edict of Milan.

The Emperors from Constantine the Great until the Early Part

The Successors of Constantine the Great. Constantius (337-61)

Julian the Apostate (361-63).

The Church and the State at the End of the Fourth Century.
Theodosius the Great and the Triumph of Christianity

The German (Gothic) problem in the Fourth Century

National and Religious Problems in the Fifth Century

Arcadius (395-408)

Favorites.

The Settlement of the Gothic Problem

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Marcian (450-57) and Leo I (457-74). Aspar. The Fourth Ecu-

Zeno (474-91). The Isaurians. Odovacar and Theoderic the

Ostrogoth. The Henoticon

The Settlement of the Isaurian Problem. The Persian War.

Bulgarian and Slavic Attacks. The Long Wall. Relations

with the West .

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The Religious Policy of Anastasius. The Rebellion of Vitalian.

Internal Reforms

Literature, Learning, Education, and Art from the Time of Con-

stantine the Great to Justinian

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BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR THE SECOND CHAPTER.

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