Table of Contents:
  • Diocletian and the Tetrarchy (ca. 280-312)
  • Constantine I and his successors (312-ca. 400)
  • Christianization (fifth century)
  • Restoration of the empire (sixth century)
  • Transformation (seventh and eighth centuries)
  • Renewal (ninth and tenth centuries)
  • Between East and West (ca. 1000- ca.1250)
  • Period of turmoil (ca. 1250-ca. 1450)
  • The new order (ca. 1450-ca. 1550).