THE FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN SOCIETY IN WESTERN EUROPE
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| 107266189 | Germanic successor states (Germanic kingdoms) | Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Lombards, Burgundians, Angles/Saxons | |
| 107266190 | Pope Leo I (440-461) | continued to play an important role as an official of the Roman Empire was the decisive voice at the Council of Chalcedon (451) | |
| 107266191 | Council of Chalcedon(Oct 451) | addressed the issue of the relationship of humanity and divinity in the person of Christ. | |
| 107266192 | Germanic general Odoacer (476) | deposes Romulus Augustulus, and ends the Western Roman Empire | |
| 107266193 | Clovis, King of the Franks (481 - 511) | established Frankish power throughout Gaul by overcoming Roman and Visigoth opposition | |
| 107266194 | Radegund (518 - 587) | Frankish queen who founded her own monastery, and from there exerted a great deal of spiritual and political power | |
| 107266195 | Benedict of Nursia(529) | Christian monasticism began in Egypt and Syria, where it was organized in a variety of ways. Benedict is credited with formulating a rule for monks in the West that was strict but also practical | |
| 107266196 | Pope Gregory the Great (3 Sep 590) | significant intellectual and writer. By his promotion of Benedictine monasticism, and his initiation of the conversion of England, he marked a new stage in papal leadership in Latin Christendom | |
| 107266197 | Charles Martel (c. 700-750) | Frankish ruler of the 8th century, who halted Moorish expansion in Gaul. | |
| 107266198 | Abbasid dynasty | Cosmopolitan Arabic dynasty (750-1258) that replaced the Umayyads; founded by Abu al-Abbas and reaching its peak under Harun al-Rashid | |
| 107266199 | Pope Gelasius (1 Mar 492) | claim that the powers of kings and the power of the church are distinct established an important theme of later Western civilization -- the conceptual distinction between church and state | |
| 107281949 | Germanic successor states (The Franks) | center of gravity shifted from Italy to northern lands |
