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Visigoths
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occupied Spain and Italy until the Ostrogoths
They were a Germanic tribe who moved into the Roman Empire in the 3rd century They occupied the former Western Rome |
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Ostrogoths
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Germanic tribe who took control of Italy in the 5th century
They kept the Roman structure |
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Anglo-Saxon
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Germanic tribe (Angles and Saxons) from Denmark/Northern Germany who moved into Britain in the 5th century after Rome left
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Clovis
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strong military leader who around 500 AD became the first Germanic ruler to convert to Christianity
established the kingdom of the Franks Conversion to Christianity brought a union between the Germans and the Roman Kingdom kingdom went from the southwest (Pyrenees) to German lands in the east (modern France and western Germany) |
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Pyrenees
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the starting point of the Frankish kingdom thats east of the Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Spain, and west of Italy
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wergild
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the amount paid by a wrongdoer to the family of the person he or she had injured or killed
"money for a man" - value of the person in money value varied based on social structure (nobles = more money/peasants = less) |
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ordeal
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means of determining guilt in Germanic law
based on the idea of divine prevention involved a physical trial (like putting a burning iron to a "wrongdoer's" tongue - if he was lying, he would be burned) believed that divine forces wouldn't let people be hurt if a person was unharmed, then he was innocent |
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bishopric
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the area of authority of a bishop (or diocece)
all of these were joined together under the archbishop |
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pope
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bishops of Rome who were known as Peter's successors (of the Catholic Church)
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monk
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a man who separates himself from ordinary human society in order to pursue a life of total dedication to God
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monasticism
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the practice of living the life of a monk
it was first based on a model of a hermit who pursues an isolated spiritual life it later turned into communities by Saint Benedict |
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Saint Benedict
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person who founded a community of monks which he wrote rules for in the 6th century
he divided each day into a series of activities (prayer and manual labor) physical work was required ruled by an abbot |
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missionaries
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people who were sent out to carry a religious message
they converted Non-Christians |
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nuns
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women who withdrew from the world to dedicate themselves to God (like monks, but women)
they were important to the monastic movement |
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abbesses
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convents where nuns lived were headed by this
many of them belonged to royal houses |
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mayors of the palace
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chief officer of the king's household who took over control of the Frankish kingdoms
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Pepin
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a mayor of the palace who took the logical step of assuming the kingship of the Frankish state for himself and his family
his father was Charles Martel (leader who defeated the Muslims at the Battle of Tours in 732) Died 768 |
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Charlemagne
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"Charles the Great" - Pepin's son
he was a fierce warrior, a strong salesman, and a pious Christian (might) not have been able to write, but promoted learning rule was from 768 - 814 he expanded his rule and created the Carolingian Empire, which covered much of western and central Europe it depended on Charlemagne and counts (German nobles - which were like representatives of Charlemagne for his kingdoms) he created missi dominici (messengers of the lord king), which checked on the counts by 800, he was emperor of the Romans his empire combined Romans, Christians, and Germans |
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Carolingian Empire
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at its height, it had much of central and western Europe
it was started by Charlemagne |
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scriptoria
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"writing rooms" - where monks copied the works of early Christianity (like the Bible), and works of Latin classical authors
most of the Roman works are from this |
