Read Tacitus: Germania; Theodosian Code; Augustine: City of God; Salvian: On the Governance of God, and answer the questions:
1) Compare and contrast Christian and Islamic ideas about marriage. How are they similar/different?
2) How does Tacitus describe the Germanic peoples of his day? Does he seem to admire them?
3) According to St. Augustine, what was the role of the Roman empire in Christian history?
4) According to Salvian, why did some Romans prefer to be ruled by the barbarians?
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