Problem solving emperors - a dynamic age 235-285, the reign of Diocletian 285-305; the age of Constantine - imperials rivals 305-312, the emperor and his new religion, Constantine's heirs 324-350; frontier wars and civil wars 350-395 - imperial defence 350-361, reactionary rebel - the emperor Juaian 361-363, internal conflicts 363-395; the battle of Adrianople and the sack of Rome - the coming of the Huns, the Visigoths and the Empire 376-395; Stilicho or Honorius? - the conflict of two strategies 395-410; a divided city - the Christian Church 300-460 - Christianity and the empire, the primacy of Peter, the rise of monasticism; the disappearance of an army - shrinking the Western Empire 410-454, an age of military dictators 455-480, the fall of Rome; the new kingdoms - war lords and kings, Theoderic and the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy, Clovis; the twilight of the West 518-568 - prelude - Constantinople and Rome, Justinian I and Africa 527-533, the Italian wars 535-553; Constantinople, Persia and the Arabs - the Roman empire and Iran, Islam and the Arab conquests; decadent and do-nothing kings - Visigothic Spain c.589-711, Merovingian Gaul c.511-687; the re-making of Britain - entrepreneurial rulers 410-597, Christian kingdoms 597-685; the Mercian hegemony 633-874; the Lombard achievement C 540-712, the acquisition of Italy 540-572; dukes and kings 572-584, the kingdom of the Lombards 584-712; the sundering of East and West - survivals of cultural unity, iconoclasm - divisions in the East, Rome between Constantinople and Francia; monks and missionaries - western monasticism, the making of the Irish church, spreading the word; towards a new Western Empire 714-800 - Charles The Hammer, Pippin The Short, Charles The Great; the new Constantine - the meaning of empire, the mechanics of government, the ideological programme; the dissension of kings - chroniclers in an age of war, the reign of Louis the Pious 814-840, kings and emperors in the West 840-911; the desolation of the pagans - traders and raiders, the Vikings and Francia, the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, conversion and expansion; towards the millennium - Italy and Germany 875-961, the heirs of Rome - East and West 961-1002, Renaissance and nostalgia.
