Christian Cultures: Europe
Themes
- regional kingdoms
- "Christian society"
- otherworldly worldviews: relics
Environment and Development
- migration and ethnogenesis:
- Early Middle Ages: settlement and conversion, circa 400-1050
- Visigothic Spain, 6th-7th centuries
- Franks, c. 5th-9th centuries
- Clovis 481-511
- Charlemagne 768-814
- Anglo-Saxon England, c. 600-1066
- Scandinavians: Vikings, Normans, 8th-9th centuries
- Italy: papacy, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Byzantines
- Benedict 480-547
- Pope Gregory I 590-604
- Germany: Otto I 936-73
- High Middle Ages: urbanization and centralization, circa 1050-1350
- Late Middle Ages and Renaissance, circa 1350-1500
European Cultures
- synthesis:
- social and economic (Germanic):
- conversion
- political: kingship and conversion
- popes, bishops, and monks:
- Franks: Clovis and Clotilde (Gregory of Tours)
- Anglo-Saxons: Edwin and Ethelberga (Bede)
- Saxons and Scandinavians: Anglo-Saxon and Frankish strategies
- Boniface
- Ansgar
- Vikings at the court of Charlemagne: monk of St. Gall
- treaty of Alfred and Guthrum, 871
- Rollo and the founding of Normandy, 911
"Christian Society"
- politics and religion
- popes and emperors: Gelasius' "two swords" theory
- bishops and kings: Visigothic war blessing 7th century
- Franco-Papal Alliance, c. 751 the Pope and Pepin
- Christian kingship:
- Charlemagne (Einhard)
- Alfred the Great 871-899
- Otto I 936-73
- christianizing the landscape:
- worldview
Conclusions
cultural identity: regional kingdoms and Christian society
comparison to Byzantium: icons and relics
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