Spring 1998

AB IMPERIO AD SAECULUM CHRISTIANORUM

"FROM EMPIRE TO THE TIME OF CHRISTIANS": The subject matter from our Spring 1998 schedule contains selections from authors who lived during and in the next two centuries following the sack of Imperial Rome in 410. With the rise of Christianity as the dominant force in politics, education, as well as religion, naturally the authors of the popular texts of the time are monks, priests, and bishops. However, secular knowledge abounds from the period, as mankind struggled to survive and flourish in the absence of Roman hegemony in the western Mediterranean, while Christianity sought its identity.

Week 1 (01/20/98):	Introduction to late antique themes and to Augustine
Week 2 (01/27/98):	Ammianus Marcellinus -- Res Gestae	c. 390 C.E.
Week 3 (02/03/98):	Prudentius -- Contra Orationem Symmachi	early 5th century C.E.
Week 4 (02/10/98):	Ambrose of Milan -- Epistulae	late 4th century C.E.
Week 5 (02/17/98):	Augustine -- Confessions	5th century C.E.
Week 6 (02/24/98):	Boethius -- Philosophiae Consolationis	524 C.E.
Week 7 (03/03/98):	Cassiodorus -- Institutiones	6th century C.E.
Week 8 (03/10/98):	Augustine -- Epistulae	5th century C.E.
Week 9 (03/17/98):	Augustine -- Confessions	5th century C.E.
Week 10 (03/24/98):	Boethius -- De Fide Catholica	early 6th century C.E.
Week 11 (04/07/98):	Salvianus -- De Gubernatione Dei	mid 5th century C.E.
Week 12 (04/14/98):	Caesarius of Arles -- Sermones	mid 6th century C.E.
Week 13 (04/21/98):	Augustine -- De Civitate Dei	5th century C.E.