HIST 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Caesarea, Arianism, Partible Inheritance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: History
• Course: HIST 2200
• Professor: Susannah Ferreira

Document Summary

The germanic invasions and the rise of monasticism. Objective: to explain why christianity survives in the early middle ages: political conversion of germanic kings, franks, saxons, visigoths, monasticism, the conversion of n. w. Germanic kingdoms are almost constantly in a state of flux (growing and shrinking: 500 ad early middle ages = dark ages partible inheritance christianization, 900 ce high middle ages = cultural florescence & population growth. The good times of the medieval world: 1300 ce late middle ages = demographic collapse (black death, 1500 ce. Germanic kings military support, protection, prestige church hierarchy moral justification, community membership, political alliances. Merovingian king clovis: 496giving moral purpose and co-opting bishops in gaul: franks king, favored those who also converted to christianity. Aethelbehrt of kent converts (597) and colonizes britons using episcopal authority of: saxon king, when he converted he didn"t force others to convert but did favor those who.