Study guides will be made available prior to the exams. These will consist of essay questions and some short identifications. In the event that the instructor has to quarantine, class will be held remotely over Zoom (assuming I’m well enough) - I’ll distribute the meeting invites when necessary.įace masks covering nose and mouth are required in class per university policy.Įxams: There will be an in-class midterm on October 4 and a final exam on December 15, 10:15-12:15. I will also make accomodations for missed discussion days, exams, and paper deadlines, but again you must email me. Once I know that you cannot come to class, I will give you access to the lecture recordings for the period you are sick or quarantined. Please see this page for the university’s policies and the reporting forms. Call Pat Walker Health Center, 47, to arrange this. Email me right away and get tested for Covid-19.
However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic I will be recording all lectures. If you feel sick or are exposed to someone and have to quarantine, DO NOT come to class. This is a face-to-face class and regular attendance is important. Office Hours: Mon 12:30-2:30 and by appointment. I’m happy to meet by Zoom with advance arrangements.Įmail: the Byzantine Empire the universal verdict of history is that it constitutes, without a single exception, the most thoroughly base and despicable form that civilisation has yet assumed…There has been no other enduring civilisation so absolutely destitute of all the forms and elements of greatness…Its vices were the vices of men who had ceased to be brave without learning to be virtuous…Slaves, and willing slaves, in both their actions and their thoughts, immersed in sensuality and in the most frivolous pleasures, the people only emerged from their listlessness when some theological subtlety, or some chivalry in the chariot races, stimulated them to frantic riots…The history of the Empire is a monotonous story of the intrigues of priests, eunuchs, and women, of poisonings, of conspiracies, of uniform ingratitude, of perpetual fratricides. The Empress Theodora - Mosaic from San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca.
0 kommentar(er)
