ARTH 260 Lecture 4: ARTH260 Week 4 Lecture Note

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 260
• Professor: Cathleen Hoeniger

Document Summary

Lecture late roman empire to the middle ages (ma from 330 ad until ~1400 ad when the. Renaissance took over, when constantine moved capital from rome to constantinople) Roman empire divided in east and west. Roman empire weakens and byzantine empire strengthens. Byzantium: another name for constantinople and nova roma, on edge of black sea and mediterranean, shift to constantinople happened slowly and in stages. West a(cid:374)d spe(cid:272)ifi(cid:272)ally o(cid:373)e (cid:449)as (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g threate(cid:374)ed (cid:271)y (cid:862)(cid:271)ar(cid:271)aria(cid:374)s(cid:863) Emperor did not want to be living in this violence: previous emperors had tried to make new capital milan but it was too cold, diaclesian moved to present day turkey. Area was close to border of persian empire and could therefore be supervised: constantine needed a central location because he was now in charge of the east and the west of the empire. Acceptance of christianity as official religion: marked beginning of middle ages, pushed over whole empire.