The Roman Forum
Lectures in Church History, 2005-2006

THE FORMATION OF CHRISTENDOM
(5th-8th Centuries A.D.)

Lecturer: John Rao, D. Phil., Oxford
Associate Professor of History, St. John's University

Autumn-Spring 2005-2006 Schedule

• September 18: Troubles in the Imperium: 376 Onwards
• October 2: Theodosian Emperors, Patriarchs & Chalcedon
• October 16: Reactions to Chalcedon & the Monophysite Movement
• October 30: Imperial Church & Roman See: 400’s and 500’s
• November 6: Persians, Moslems, Lombards & the Empire
• November 20: St. Martin, St. Maximus Confessor & the Monophysites
• December 4: Iconoclasm
• December 18: East-West Divisions, Artificial & Real
• January 15: St. Augustine & His Reception in the West
• January 29: St. Benedict & St. Gregory the Great
• February 12: St. Isidore of Seville & Visigothic Catholicism
• February 26: Benedictines, Irish Monks, & Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
• March 12: Roman Gaul, Clovis, and Merovingian Catholicism
• March 26: St. Columbanus and His Associates
• April 9: The Rise of the Carolingians
• April 23: English Benedictines & the German Missions
• May 7: The Papal-Carolingian Alliance

All sessions will meet on Sundays, at 2:30 pm. Attendance is open to all. No registration is required. Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee at door of $10.00

Location:
The Catholic Center at New York University in Greenwich Village
Entrance: 238 Thompson Street, off Washington Square South
(A, B, C, D, E, F trains to West 4th Street or #6 train to Bleecker Street)

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Website: www.romanforum.org