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Early Medieval Europe

Early Medieval Europe. Medieval Foundations. Christianity Roman Empire Germanic Tribes. Christian Evangelism. Continuing missionary efforts  Progress beyond Roman Empire Armenia. Celtic Christianity. St. Patrick and Ireland Importance of monasteries Abbots’ authority

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Early Medieval Europe

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  1. Early Medieval Europe

  2. Medieval Foundations • Christianity • Roman Empire • Germanic Tribes

  3. Christian Evangelism • Continuing missionary efforts  • Progress beyond Roman Empire • Armenia

  4. Celtic Christianity • St. Patrick and Ireland • Importance of monasteries • Abbots’ authority • Evangelism • St. Columba • Iona • Lindisfarne • Scholarship (“saving civilization”)

  5. Boethius (480-524 A.D.) • Advisor to King Theodoric • Implicated in a conspiracy and jailed • Authored Consolation of Philosophy • Blending of Christian and pagan ideas • God as a philosophical concept • Echoes of both Plato and Aristotle • Big influence over next 1,000 years

  6. New Barbarian Kingdoms • Italy • Ostrogoths • Lombards • Spain – Visigoths • England – Anglo-Saxons • Religious problems (Arianism)

  7. Barbarian Kingdoms (2) • Franks–Merovingians • Clovis (482-511) • Conversion to Orthodox Christianity • Expansion • Primitive feudalism, “counts,” & bishops • Latin/German fusion

  8. Germanic Society • Central role of the family • Family structure and marriage (Tacitus) • Personal nature of legal system • Blood feuds • Wergeld – “money for a man” • Compurgation and ordeal • Impersonal nature of legal system—custom and law superior to leaders

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