Unit Code Summary
| Unit Codes | CH1002Z | CH8002Z | CH8802Z |
| Points | 18 | 24 | 18 |
The first millennium of the Church saw the greatest expansion of the Roman Empire, its collapse in the west, the rise of competing centres of power from Rome to Constantinople to Aachen. During the same period, Christianity developed from a small and persecuted Jewish cult to an expansive monotheistic state church, before being internally divided and threatened in the East by the rise of the Golden Horde and Islamic Caliphates. In this unit students will travel from the early eastern cave churches to the centre of Roman power, to monasteries from Nitria in North Africa, to Kiev and Iona. From the splendour of the Byzantine Hagia Sophia to the Carolingian renaissance of Charlemagne’s court at Aachen. In this unit, students will discover how the early Church went from the periphery to the centre of power, and then as the millennium approached was confronted by the rise of a new monotheistic evangelising religion that threatened the Eastern Church’s very survival.
Subject Details
Duration: One Semester
Availability: Second semester
Core/Elective: Core
Delivery Mode: Mixed Mode - onsite or online
Prerequisites: None. Should you want information about the readings for this unit, please contact your lecturer. Otherwise, all readings will be available through the unit ARK site two weeks prior to the beginning of the semester.
More Information
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Building a Church: Christianity and Imperium in the First Millennium (CH1002Z)
Building a Church: Christianity and Imperium in the First Millennium (CH8002Z)
Building a Church: Christianity and Imperium in the First Millennium (CH9802Z)