Today we return to Prof Eugen Weber’s course, ‘The Western Tradition’. Today he discusses: The Fall of Byzantium
Nearly a thousand years after Rome’s fall, Constantinople was conquered by the forces of Islam.
Please follow this link out to the video lecture.
Prof Webber also goes into the divide of the nature of Christ and the differences between Rome and Constantinople in the church and politics and the ex-communications of the late 11th century. The divisiveness between Rome and Constantinople prevented the Christian World from being united and allowed the easy expansion if islam. Infighting cost the West dearly.
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Tags: History, Religion, saturday lecture series
