1. THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE - 2 Nevra Necipoğlu

2. Vocabulary and Dates - 1 Emperor Justinian I (r. 527-565) Empress Theodora (Justinian’s wife) Tribonian Corpus Juris Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”)=Justinian’s Code Nika riot (532) Hagia Sophia basilica vs. domed church Sassanids of Persia Justinianic plague (542) Emperor Heraclius (r. 610-641) theme system / thema (pl. themata)

3. JUSTINIAN I (r. 527-565) – Mosaic at Ravenna

4. EMPRESS THEODORA -- Mosaic at Ravenna

5. BYZANTINE EMPIRE (527)

6. BYZANTINE EMPIRE AT JUSTINIAN I’S DEATH (565)

9. THEMES OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE (10TH CENT.)

10. Vocabulary and Dates - 2 Iconoclasm (726-843) Emperor Leo III (r. 717-741) icon / idolatry / iconoclast vs. iconodule (=iconophile) John of Damascus Stoudios Monastery (İmrahor Camii) – center of opposition to Iconoclasm Peter Damian – monastic ideal Franks / coronation of Charlemagne as Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III (800) Great Schism (1054) Macedonian dynasty (867-1059) Baptism of Prince Vladimir of Kiev (988) missionary activity by Cyril (d. 869) and Methodius (d. 885)

11. Byzantine icons Jesus (6th c.) Virgin & Child (12th c.) Saint Peter (6th c.)

12. An iconoclast whitewashing an icon of Christ (miniature from the Khludov Psalter – 9th c.)

13. Iconoclastic cross in the apse of Hagia Eirene

14. Stoudios Monastery (İmrahor Camii)

15. Pope Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) & Patriarch Bartholomeo at the Patriarchate in Istanbul (Nov. 2006): still seeking to heal the Great Schism

16. Vocabulary and Dates - 3 pronoia Norman capture of Bari (1071) Battle of Manzikert/Malazgirt (1071) Emperor Alexios I Komnenos (r. 1081-1118) First Crusade (1095-1098) / Pope Urban II Fourth Crusade (1203/4) Latin Empire of Constantinople (1204-1261) Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos (r. 1261-1282) Palaiologan dynasty (1261-1453) Monastery of Chora (Kariye) / Theodore Metochites Sultan Mehmed II (the Conqueror) Gennadios Scholarios, Greek Orthodox Patriarch under Mehmed II

17. Fragmentation after the Fourth Crusade

18. REPRESENTATIONS OF15TH-CENTURY CONSTANTINOPLE IN CRISTOFORO BUONDELMONTI’S LIBER INSULARUM ARCHIPELAGI

19. THEODORE METOCHITES, RE-FOUNDER OF THE CHORA MONASTERY

21. Mehmed II’s siege of Constantinople (1453)

22. GENTILE BELLINI, PORTRAIT OF MEHMED II, 1480 OTTOMAN PAINTER, PORTRAIT OF MEHMED II, c. 1480

23. Mehmed II & Gennadios Scholarios, Patriarch of Constantinople

24. OTTOMAN ISTANBUL BY MATRAKÇI NASUH (16TH CENT.)