What Can We Learn From the Fall of Rome?
Dates: | October 14 - November 11, 2020 |
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Meets: | Wed. from 10:00 AM to 12 Noon |
Location: | Online Presentation |
Cost: | $65.00 |
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Instructor Bruce McNab will illustrate the contrast between the Roman Empire at its zenith in the second century and at its nadir in the fifth century, allowing participants to see this tremendous collapse. Hundreds of causes have been proposed to explain the “fall of Rome.” The course will examine these many explanations by grouping them into four causal clusters: environmental change and disease in the antique urban environment; economic, political and religious factors; endemic civil war and military decline; and, finally, the political, economic and cultural impact of the so-called “barbarian invasions.”
Fee: | $65.00 |
Online Presentation
This is a real-time (live) online class that meets at the specified day(s)/time(s) listed.We will send you a reminder email with login instructions one business day before the program start date. If there are additional sessions, we will send reminders the morning of those sessions.
Bruce McNab
Bruce McNab is a retired Episcopal priest and adjunct seminary professor. He trained as a cultural historian at Princeton University and the Institute of Historical Research in London. His two fields of specialization were Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages. He co-edited and contributed to the book "Order and Innovation in the Middle Ages," published by the Princeton University Press in 1976.Date | Day | Time | Location |
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10/14/2020 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | Online Presentation |
10/21/2020 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | Online Presentation |
10/28/2020 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | Online Presentation |
11/04/2020 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | Online Presentation |
11/11/2020 | Wednesday | 10 AM to 12 N | Online Presentation |