Click on date to get a brief outline of each of the lectures given in this course. These are a guide to helping you interpret and correct your own notes. Remember at all times that the purpose of lectures is not to download information (there are more efficient ways to do that) but to discuss material for the course in a way designed to stimulate your own critical reflection on the material.

• September 8 --Introduction
• September 13 -- How the World Worked
• September 15 -- Approaching Ammianus
• September 20 -- Power
• September 22 -- Aristocrats and Others
• September 27 -- Barbarians
• September 29 -- Theoderic
• October 4 -- Cassiodorus' Variae
• October 6 -- Cassiodorus
• October 11 -- religion in history
• October 13 -- class devoted to demonstration of Internet
• October 18 -- NO CLASS -- fall break
• October 20 -- "Paganism"
• October 25 -- Aspects of the history of Christianity
• October 27 -- Christianity in the Roman world
• November 1 -- Structures of Authority in Christianity
• November 3 -- Boethius
• November 10 and 15 -- Augustine
• November 17 -- Monks
• November 22 -- S-x
• December 1 -- Boredom; and Ireland