NOTE WELL: these are the dates by which I expect you to have read these texts and be prepared for lectures/discussion. THERE IS ALSO the book by Roger Collins, *Early Medieval Europe*, and I leave you entirely on your own to schedule your reading of that book in time for the exam on 8 November. Where this list says "WWW", it means texts are or will be available on the network.

9/13
9/15 Ammianus pp. 1-233

9/20
9/22 Ammianus pp. 234-443

9/27 Cassiodorus pp. ix-liii (+ a handout)
9/29 Cassiodorus pp. 1-100

10/4 Cassiodorus pp. 101-183
10/6 Cassiodorus, *Institutes* (excerpts)
(on the WWW)

10/11
10/13 Lane Fox pp. 1-221

10/18 Mark and Romans
(from the New Testament: on the WWW)
10/20 Lane Fox pp. 265-335, 419-548

10/25 Lane Fox pp. 549-681
10/27 Plotinus Enn. 6.8-9 (WWW)

11/1
11/3 Boethius pp. 1-169

11/8
11/10 Augustine, *Confessions* books 1-9

11/15 Augustine, *Confessions* bks. 10-13
11/17

11/22 Brown, pp. 3-338
11/24 THANKSGIVING

11/29 Brown, pp. 339-447
12/1

12/6 Gibbon, *Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire*, ch. 15 and "General Observations"
(widely available, but I hope to have in WWW form by then)