Early Medieval West Flashcards
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Martin of Tours
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- Monastic founder, bishop of Tours, evangelist
- Gaul (modern France)
- 4th century
- replaced pagan shrines with churches
- associated with miracles and healing
- famous story of cutting his cloak in two to cloathe a beggar in the winter
- patron saint of France
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Clovis of the Franks
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- King of the Franks, first to embrace Catholic (Nicene) Christianity
- late 5th - early 6th centuries
- Gaul (France)
- “a new Constantine” (Gregory of Tours)
- model of conversion of non-Roman people groups from margins of old empire
- unites Franks, expands territory, establishes dynastic monarchy
- Catholic core for later emergence of European Christendom
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Augustine of Canterbury
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- Missionary to England and first Archbishop of Canterbury
- “Apostle to the English”
- 7th century
- A Roman monk commissioned by Gregory the Great for the mission to England
- Received by Ethelbert, King of Kent, who adopted Christianity, along with many of his subjects
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St. Patrick
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- “Apostle of the Irish”
- probably mid- or late-5th century
- From Britain, he was captured by Irish pirates and turned to God
- Later, returned to Ireland as missionary bishop
- Late in life, wrote his Confession
- Many visions, miracles, and legends connected with his memory
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Columba of Iona
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- Irish Abbot, monastic founder, and missionary evangelist
- 6th-century
- founded a monastery at Iona, off western coast of Scotland, as base for evangelism
- spread Christianity in Scotland
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Aidan of Lindisfarne
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- Irish monk of Iona and bishop of Lindisfarne
- 7th century
- Established base on Lindisfarne (Holy Island) off northeast coast of England
- Successful evangelistic mission to mainland: “Apostle of Northumbria”
- Established monasteries, churches, schools; charitable concern for the unfortunate
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Boniface
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- Anglo-Saxon “Apostle of Germany”
- late 7th - 8th centuries
- Originally named Wynfrith (various spellings)
- Received commission from Rome (and the name Boniface)
- Felled the Oak of Thor at Geismar, which won him many converts
- Founded a number monasteries in German lands
- Represents the merging of Anglo-Irish and Roman missions
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The Venerable Bede
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- Benedictine monk, scholar
- 7th and 8th centuries
- North of England (Wearmouth and Jarrow)
- Most influential scholar of Anglo-Saxon era: biblical exegesis, educational curricula, lives of saints, history
- Called “The Father of English History” for his Ecclesiastical History of the English People
