HIST 025 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Barbarian Kingdoms, Subsistence Agriculture, Order Of Saint Benedict

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: History (HIST)
• Course: HIST 025
• Professor: Mangnall

Document Summary

Illiteracy rates growing, intellectual activity ground to a halt. Frequent invasions made development durable political and economic forms. Only slowly expanding latin church holds it together. Decline of rome and the rise of barbarian kingdoms lends a transitory nature to this world. People question the meanings god had for this world. God intends this world to be transitory and a test for the faithful. Translated the old and new testaments from aramaic and greek into latin. Interpret ancient literature in the light of the christian faith. Writer of many ethical and philosophical works. Human conduct should always stress a reverence for god and should not concern itself with self-interest. God helps some christians but not others in the pursuit of grace. Great impact on the development of western thought. A literary masterpiece and one of the most influential books in the history of.