Podcasts about western rome

395 - 628 - How did Eastern Rome and Western Rome drift apart, and how did the fall of Western Rome impact Eastern Rome? We meet Justinian, Belisarius and Heraclius and explore the Byzantine relationship with the Sasanian Persians, the Avars, the Ostrogoths and the Lombards.

Week 2 of our 4-part series on Disruptions in Church History. In case you missed it, here’s the description of what we’re doing… Welcome to a new format for the Postmodern Missionary Podcast. Let me tell you about it! Many have requested that I add a teaching component on here in addition to my interviews, which has been in the works for a while. I had teachings on how to do mission well. I had teachings on what Neo-colonialism looks like. AAAAND then Corona happened. My life and your life and every church and the whole world has been disrupted by the ‘rona. So instead I decided to take the opportunity to see what certain episodes in history might teach us about how to handle this disruption…the Black Plague, for example. So here we are with a four part series on Disruptions in Church History. Now, I few things you need to know: One, each week we will look at one disruption in Church History. We will wade through what the disruption was and then we’ll ask the question of how the church responded to it. You will find that sometimes the church handled what they were facing in a really positive and constructive and gospel-centered way. And sometimes…not so much. Two, this is by no means an exhaustive list, only stuff that I’ve encountered that I find instructive and interesting. Three, and this is important. I decided to do this topic before the most recent uprisings against police brutality in the US and before we started this newest critical conversation about race for our generation. Truthfully, it seems like now there are two disruptions going on. HOWEVER, I think this topic has something to say about this conversation too. Four, I personally am doing my own spiritual work toward becoming truly anti-racist, and I have been for a while now. This work is CENTRAL to being a postmodern missionary that does not cause harm. But this podcast is not directly about that. (Not directly about that.) My plan is to tell you how these disruptions were handled by sections of the church…for good or ill. I know that there will be parallels that can be drawn between the stories I tell here and what we’re facing together today. Now, I’m not going to make those connections in this podcast. Instead, I’m going to let you and the Holy Spirit and maybe some friends on your journey do that work together. My firm belief and conviction is that the church must respond to the disruptions of today…. Even if we don’t respond, that is still a response. Maybe looking back will help us to look forward. Number 5, and also very important, I think this is gonna be fun. I mean, like, nerdy fun. But still fun. And I’m super glad you’re here! REFERENCES Boer, Harry R. (1976) A Short History of the Early Church. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eardmans Publishing Company Hanson, R.P.C. (1972) The Reaction of the Church to the Collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the Fifth Century. Vigiliae Christianae 2. North Holland Publishing Company Gonzalez, Justo L. (2010) The Story of Christianity, Volume I: The Early Church to the Reformation. Revised and Updated. New York: HarperCollins. Noll, Mark A. (2012) Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity. Third Edition. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic.

The Scourge of God descends upon Gaul. Aetius must rally what remains of Western Rome and unite with his nemesis Theodoric of the Visigoths. Together, they will fight Western Rome’s last great battle against Attila and his Huns.   When I started this podcast in January 2019 I decided that I wanted to tell the […]

The Scourge of God descends upon Gaul. Aetius must rally what remains of Western Rome and unite with his nemesis Theodoric of the Visigoths. Together, they will fight Western Rome's last great battle against Attila and his Huns.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s another great crowdfunding episode this week, #402! First up is Travis Horseman, who’s collecting his terrific series of graphic novels called Amiculus: A Secret History into a special edition, complete with a new story. We discuss how he brought this powerful story about the collapse of Western Rome to life, just who the main characters are in this historical tale, and what he has in mind for the future of the character as well as his work! Be sure to support his current Kickstarter project, going on now at this link, and he needs your help to bring this volume to life! For more information about this series, go to his website here. Then everything wraps up with the return of Gilbert Deltrez, creator of several Indie comics I’ve really enjoyed, including Under the Flesh and Lair. He’s got a new series on Indiegogo called Galactic Rodents of Mayhem, which is described as “an off the rails, edge-of-your-seat, deep space sci-fi adventure, featuring your soon-to-be FUR-AVORITE capybara bounty hunters!” We talk about how he’s brought this tale to be as well as what we might expect from him in the months ahead. To support this project, go to Indiegogo at this link today!

476 Romulus Augustulus, last Roman Emperor in the West, abdicates the throne after forces led by Odoacer invade Rome. Flavius Odoacer becomes the first king of Italy after leading a successful rebellion against Western Rome's young emperor. The beginning of his reign will traditionally mark the end of the Ancient Roman epoch and the start of the Middle Ages. 1781 Los Angeles, first an Indian village Yangma, is founded by Spanish decree. 1862 Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invades Maryland, starting the Antietam Campaign. It will eventually result in the Battle of Antietam, 13 days later, the bloodiest battle in history on American soil at that point. 1886 Apache leader Goyalkla, or as he's known to non-Native Americans, Geronimo, formally surrenders after the US Army 4th Cavalry relentlessly pursues him and his band of warriors throughout southern Arizona. For 30 years, the mighty Native American warrior had battled to protect his tribe's homeland; however, by 1886 the Apaches were exhausted and hopelessly outnumbered. General Nelson Miles accepted Geronimo's surrender, making him the last Native American warrior to formally give in to U.S. forces and signaling the end of the Indian Wars in the Southwest. 1941 German submarine U-652 fires at the U.S. destroyer Greer patrolling off Iceland. At this point there was no decleration of war between Germany and USA. President Roosevelt would later cite the incident as the catalyst for the "shoot-on-sight" policy US Naval vessels would follow until the formal declaration of war in December, after Pearl Harbor. It would later be known the the Greer had chased the sub and held contact with the sub for 3 hours and 28 minutes before the sub fired its first torpedo. The definition of "attack" is "an onset, an aggressive initiation of combat, a move which is the antithesis of 'defense.'" In that definition, the USS Greer had attacked the German submarine. 1998 Google is founded. The internet company, now synonymous with the act of finding information on the world wide web was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It started as a research project when Page and Brin were doctoral students at Stanford University.

  Key members of the team are disappearing from time and Rome has seized control of the base, the remaining Continuum Force make one last ditch effort to save the timeline and restore things as they should be. Historical Links The Fall of Western Rome – https://www.ancient.eu/article/835/fall-of-the-western-roman-empire/ Cast List Connor Dannard – Marcus Salley Buzz...

Rome never fell. The impacts to our timeline have the Continuum Base in jeopardy. The team struggles to figure out the solution. Historical Links The Fall of Western Rome – https://www.ancient.eu/article/835/fall-of-the-western-roman-empire/ Cast List Connor Dannard – Marcus Salley Buzz Borman – JC De La Torre Lesley “Ace” Barber – Jessie Johnson CTC Sally – Calliope...

  The Continuum Force discover who was behind the attack on Apollo 13 and of treachery at home. The revealed foe wreaks havoc in Ancient Rome. Historical Links Apollo 13 – http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html The Fall of Western Rome – https://www.ancient.eu/article/835/fall-of-the-western-roman-empire/ Cast List Connor Dannard – Marcus Salley Buzz Borman – JC De La Torre Lesley “Ace”...

Episode Summary: The team struggles with the changes from the Apollo 13 disaster. Can they even go back to set things right? Plus, something strange is happening in Ancient Rome. Important Links Main site: http://continuumforce.transmissionsfromatlantis.com Patreon: http://patreon.com/tfaentertainment Historical Links Apollo 13 – http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/history/apollo/apollo-13/apollo-13.html The Fall of Western Rome – https://www.ancient.eu/article/835/fall-of-the-western-roman-empire/ Cast List Connor Dannard –...

This week, I talk with Travis Horseman, who’s brought together a terrific series of graphic novels called Amiculus: A Secret History. We discuss how he brought this powerful story about the collapse of Western Rome to life, just who the characters are in this historical tale, and what he has in mind for the future of the character as well as his work! First up, though, is his current Kickstarter project that you can support! It’s going on now at this link, and he needs your help to bring the concluding volume to life! For more information about this series, go to his website here. These books come highly recommended by yours truly, so don’t miss this engaging conversation and the books that bring to life an important part of history, and does it in a gripping way! Be sure not to miss Episode 248 as we count our way to #250, coming in just two weeks! Show your thanks to Major Spoilers for this episode by becoming a Major Spoilers Patreon member. It will help ensure Wayne's Comics Podcast continues far into the future!

Dr. Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who has studied collapse in numerous ancient civilization and penned The Collapse of Complex Societies. This is our first deeply historical episode and Dr. Tainter begins by offering his definition of complexity and taking us through the story of Western Rome's collapse. Extrapolating from the past, Dr. Tainter paints an alarming scene of our possible future. In our conversation, he critiques the primitivism of John Zerzan, the transhumanism of Max More, and the technological optimism of Ariel Waldman and Colin Camerer. What are we left with? Not optimism, not pessimism but, perhaps, Ragnarok.

Dr. Joseph Tainter is an anthropologist and historian who has studied collapse in numerous ancient civilization and penned The Collapse of Complex Societies. This is our first deeply historical episode and Dr. Tainter begins by offering his definition of complexity and taking us through the story of Western Rome's collapse. Extrapolating from the past, Dr. Tainter paints an alarming scene of our possible future. In our conversation, he critiques the primitivism of John Zerzan, the transhumanism of Max More, and the technological optimism of Ariel Waldman and Colin Camerer. What are we left with? Not optimism, not pessimism but, perhaps, Ragnarok.