hagia sophia- church of holy wisdom

Huge center city in the Bysantium empire

Wealthier, more  urbanized

1. rival military factions (military, circus, chariot races)

2.r. theodocious offering laurel  wreath to victor in hippodrome

527-565

attempted to reunite E & W

public works- high taxes, theodors role, slaughter of 30,000

nika riots- 532- blues and greens half of Const. burned

Military exp- italy; destructed- goths and byzan

constanople-taxes- increasing poverty

church and state- interdependance of bishop and emporer. emp both secular and religous

bishops- political power

Justanians wife

him- last latin speaking emperor

dual role priest and king

settled dispute between orthodox and monophysite christian

Theodora- secret monophysite

conflict of church- not completely resolved

believed that jesus christ has only 1 nature

1. divine over human

532

major riot

destroyed hagia sophia

expense of raising taxes under justinian

green and blue factions

Nika~win!

slaughtered 30,000 rioters

the power or parents

1. mariage is binding to live in a invisible union

2. only have power over your own children

3. all decendants are your power, other than your daughters which is it's own father

387-493

roman briton- christian missionary 

saint of ireland 

st pattys day is his death

590-604

letter, 598-601 to mellitus

Pope

brought christianity to south of england

sent letter to mellitus

commisioned augustine benedictine 6th cent

roman african province

354-430

latin speaking philosopher 

influenced western christian 

city of god

roman church in kent

under king oswy (664)

anglo-saxon 

reconciled 

France and the Franks 

768-814

gradson to charles martel

papal protector in italy

territorial conquest

governed through 250 counts-regional gov, overseen by missi dominici

church- Pope leo threatened by roman aristrocracy

Aachean odo of metz- palace chapel

his sucsessors- louis the pios (benedictine rule 817-monastic standard), Lothar; pippin;lious- additional heir. Treaty of Verdun (843) divided empire

charles the bald-france louis the german and Lothar (middle kingdom)

Aachen odo of metz

Roman influences- building, conquests, legislation, church reform 

rules set by charlemagne 

802

1. no one should presume to rob or injure 

2. no one lay waste a benefice of the lord and make it its own property

3. wont neglect summons to war 

surviving 3 sons of louis the pious son of charla.

843

divided empire

charles the bald-france

louis the german- germany

lothar- middle kingdom

anglo saxon rule 

871-899

military, religious, educational, legal reforms

Dooms- codes of law

wessex, kent, mercia

protection of the weak against the strong

transform of tribal to territorial monarchy

court system- shires= counties hundreds= smaller unit w/in county

blood feud-wergeld= life price of victim

legal- no comp. w/out being found guilty

1. plantiff accussed the defeadent

2. defendant oath of denial

*oath helpers *ordeal cold water, boiling

dooms under alfred- legal reforms

blood fueds

financial compensation

ordinary man or woman 200

nobles 1200

striking off nose- 60

tooth 8

seizing young women by breast 5

modern center of pilgrimage 

Major oasis

Islam

home to shrine Ka'ba- muslim mosque

oasis 200 miles N of Mecca

Significant jewish population

622 muhammed moved there

Political and religious role- mediator

conflicts with mecca

1. 624 battle of badr- won

2. 625- Uhud- mohammed wounded- draw

3. 629- battle of the ditch- truce

4. 629- march on mecca

(destruction of 360 images in Ka'ba except jesus or mary)

1. shadadah-profession of faith (none but allah)

2. Salat- prayer 5x a per day

3. fasting- ramadan (9th month)

4. Zakat- tax for alms for widows/children

5. hajj- pilgrimage to mecca

majority (over 1 billion)

~descendants of uthman

sunna="custom" or "the way"

Ummayad family 

661-750

muslims minority (15 percent)

1. partisans of 'Ali

2. direct descendants of prophet through fatima and 'Ali

1. divine guidance and infallibility

2. modern decendants (king abdula, king of morocco)

Imam- true leader

hidden- reappearance of judgement day

descendants of muhammed

Minority

Mysticism

Qur'an

experiences of muhammed

Saints

Mevlevi (whirling dervishes)

Assassinated 

shia's were direct decedants through 'ali

690 CE

contains the foundation stone, heart of it

shrine for pilgrims 

785 CE

Spain

mosque

first a pagen temple, then church, then mosque

711-1492 

muslim umayyad to spain

Peace coexistence of Islam, Judaism, and Christianity 10-12th cent)

Maria Rosa Menocal- Ornament of the world

sometimes applied to broader islamic world

1126-1198

Ibn Rushd

Cordoba

1. court of almohad rule in spain

2. islamic law, medicine, astronomy, philosophy

3. commentaries on aristotle

4. neoplatonism

*their of emanation 1st cause- god

*condemned for heresy- exiled

980-1037 

Ibn Sina

Uzbekistan and Iran

1. aristotelian-neoplatonic thought w/ teachings of Koran

2. canon of medicine

3. basis of european medicine 12-16 cent