The Age of Faith

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Maps of Europe and the Byzantine Empire (A.D. 565), the Caliphate (A.D. 750), and Europe (A.D. 1190) will be found on the inside covers.

All photographs, with the exception of those otherwise marked, were secured through Bettmann Archive.

BOOK I

THE BYZANTINE ZENITH

325–565

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

Dates of rulers and popes are of their reigns. All dates are A.D.

226:

Ardashir founds Sasanian dynasty

241–72:

Shapur I of Persia

251–356:

St. Anthony of Egypt

293–373:

Athanasius

300–67:

Hilary of Poitiers

309–79:

Shapur II of Persia

310–400:

Ausonius, poet

311–81:

Ulfilas, apostle to the Goths

325:

Council of Nicaea

325–403:

Oribasius, physician

325–91:

Ammianus Marcellinus, hist’n

329–79:

St. Basil

320–89:

Gregory Nazianzen

331:

B. of Julian the Apostate

337:

Death of Constantine

340–98:

St. Ambrose

340–420:

St. Jerome

345–407:

St. John Chrysostom

345–410:

Symmachus, senator

348–410:

Prudentius, poet

353–61:

Constantius sole emperor

354–430:

St. Augustine

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