Individuals And Groups Flashcards
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F.L Ganshof on feudalism
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- Personal dependence on society
- Subdivision of rights of real property
- Graded system of rights over land, correspondence to grades of personal dependence
- Dispersal of political authority among hierarchy of individual who exercised in own interest
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Mary Bloch on feudalism
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- feudal society as a feudal age
- political military structure made age feudal
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Lynn White on horseback Calvary
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- introduction of stirrup from Asia in 8th century
- without stirrup, cavalry was useless as one on one
- stronger horses also more important
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Louis the Pious
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- Succeeded Charlemagne
- preceded Lothair I
- tried to convert Scandinavians to Christianity peacefully
- Dethroned in 833
- coronation by Pope Stephen V in Rhins
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Alfred the Great
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- king of England
- 878-885
- defeated Vikings, took back territory
- strong believer in religion, and education
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Alcuin of York
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- Churchman of England
- social, influential, not creative, assisted in gathering doctrines of past, “human dictionary”
- used bible rhetoric to argue
- ecclesiastical lord of 20 000 monks
- member of palace school
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Diocletian
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- empower of Western Anatolia
- Tetrarchy
- 284-305
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Constantine
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- capital of Roman Empire to Constantinople in 330 AD
- eliminated other members of Tetrarchy
- freedom of worship for Christians and other minorities
- gave palace to roman bishop
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St.Ambrose
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- 339-397
- ancient traditions important
- Bishop of Milan
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St.Anthony
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- 251-356
- withdrew into Egyptian desert
- austere life
- attracted disciples
- biography very important
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St.Athanasias
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- 296-373
- wrote Life of St.Anthony, the example of hagiography
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St.Pachomius
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- 286-346
- concerned with poor
- Cenobitic lifestyle
- rule of Pachomius to govern cenobites
- no free will
- Abbott head of monastery
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St.Jerome
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- 342-420
- translated bible to Latin from Greek
- pilgrimage to Bethlehem, nuns accompanied
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St.Basil
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- 330-379
- of Caesarea
- promoter of cenobitic lifestyle
- ascetic guide
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St.Simeon the elder
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- 389-459
- stylite
- lived at top of column for 30 years near Antioch
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John Cassian
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- 360-435
- “Institutes and Conferences”
- described monks of desert, lived with them for 15 years
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St.Benedict
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- 480-543
- Rule of St Benedict
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Pope Gregory the Great
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- 590-604
- sent St.Augustine of Canterbury to England
- Gregorian chant
- biography written by St Benedict Biscop
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Justinian
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- Corpus Iuris Civilis (The Digest)
- law code
- husband of Theodora
- took Carthage back
- built Hagia Sophia
- reigned 527-565
- nephew of predecessor Justin
- Renovatio Imperii
- Nika Riots
- repealed laws prohibiting marriage outside aristocracy
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Theodora
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- wife of Justinian
- rumoured hooker
- convinced Justinian not to flee after Nika riots
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Flavius Belisarius
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- 505-565
- general for Justinian
- won back Carthage, North Africa, Sicily, Rome, Naples
- Ostrogoths offered emperorship of Ravenna, he then took back the city
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Narses
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- uniq
- mentored by Theodora
- general in charge of army
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Procopius
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- wrote biographies of Theodora and Justinian
- good and bad versions of view
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Theodosius I
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- settled Osteogoths in Carpathian Basin in 380
- built western wall of Constantinople in 4th century
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Theodoric
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- elected to command western provinces by Ostrogoths in 471
- 488 sent to Odoacer of Skirs as master of army by Emperor Zeno
- camped out for 17 years, then cut Odoacer in half
- first German ruler of Italy acknowledged by Constantinople
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Emperor Zeno
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- predecessor of Anastasius
- eastern Emperor
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Odoacer the Hun
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- deposed last Roman emperor Romulus Augustus in Ravenna
- angered Byzantines
- killed by Theoderic
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Alaric
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- King of the Visigoths in 378
- chieftain of Arian race
- ravaged Greece and islands
- sacked Rome August 24, 410, but both churches
- took Emperor’s daughter, Galla Placidia who was married to Ataulf
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Athaulf
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- successor of Alaric
- married to Galla Placidia in 411
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Wallia
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- successor of Athualf
- returned Galla Placidia
- chased out Vandals, Sueves, and Alans out of France and Iberian Peninsula
- allowed to settle in southern France
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Clovis
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- leader of Franks
- defeated Visigoths
- converted from paganism to orthodox Christianity
- married Burgundian princess
- first of the Merovingians
- died 511, divided territory among sons
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Chlotar I
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- youngest son of Clovis
- left in sole possession of empire in 558
- died in 561
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Guntram
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- son of Chlotar
- ruled with brothers, Chilperic and Sigibert
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Chilperic I
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- given sister in law, Brunhild’s, sister, Galswintha
- abandons her and then she’s found strangled
- blood feud with Sigibert
- married mistress, Fredegund
- murdered 587
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Sigibert
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- married to Brunhild, daughter of Visigoth
- blood feud with brother, Chilperic
- murdered by 2 slaves, sent by brothers mistress, Fredegund
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Brunhild
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- Visigoth, married to Sigibert
- sister of Galswintha
- regent of son, Childebert II
- diplomatic, political
- outlived sons, grandsons
- died 613
- captured and tortured
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Fredegund
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- mistress, then wife of Chilperic
- ordered death of Sigibert
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Chlotar II
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- son of Chilperic and Fredegund
- succeeded Brunhild
- succeeded by son Dagoberr II
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Dagobert I
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- successor of Chlotar II
- king of Austrasia
- combined Frankish land
- 629-639
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Charles Martel
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- mayor of Austrasia in 717
- stopped Islamic invasion of France
- defeats Saxons in 738
- sent Boniface to convert Saxons
- redistributes land to church
- succeeded by Pepin the Short
- defeated last Merovingian magnate, Eudo of Aquitaine
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Pepin II
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-mayor of Neustria, Austrasia, and Burgundy in 687
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Pepin the Short
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- brother of Carloman who joined a monastery in 747
- son of Charles Martel
- deposed last Merovingian King, Childeric III
- Pope Zacharias authorized kingship
- war on Lombards
- died 768, empire left to Carloman and Charlemagne
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Carloman
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- brother of Pepin the short
- joined monastery
- called Boniface to convert East
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Carloman II
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- younger brother of Charlemagne
- less territory
- died 771, unknown circumstances
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Charlemagne
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- second ruler of Carolingian
- defeat Lombards in 774
- wants to convert border pagans
- massacred Saxons at Verden in 782
- defeats Avars 791-796
- protector of Christendom
- capital at Aachen
- Holy Roman Emperor 800, by Pope Leo III
- populous Romanus
-Kings peace
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St.Boniface
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- convert Saxons
- convert East
- authored grammar book and poetry manual
- England
- source of education north of Rome
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Einhard
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- Charlemagnes biographer
- under Louis the Pious
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Theodulf
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- Bishop of Orleans
- 798-818
- theologian
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Pope Hadrian
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- text of ecclesiastical laws
-774
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Dionysus Exiguus
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- canon law and ecclesiastical chronology
- 6th century
- made law in 802
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Count Odo of Paris
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-defends Paris from Vikings in 887
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Pope Stephen V
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- threatened by Lombard King
- gives Pepin Patrious Romanus
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Rollo
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- made deal with King of France to settle Vikings
- Viking chief
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Canute
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- Danish King
- adopted Christianity
- 11th century
- legal system
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Attila the Hun
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- eastern warrior
- died of nosebleed
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Huns
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- 4th century
- defeated by Chinese
- Eastern Asia
- moved west gaining tribes
- including Scandinavians - nomads
- pushed people’s on Roman borders, asked to cross border
- no writing
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Ostrogoths
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-pressured by Huns in 4th century
-move into Byzantine
-defeated by Byzantines at Adrianople in 358
- joined with Visigoths
-into Italian peninsula in 471
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Visigoths
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- sack Rome in 410
- reach Rhine in 200BC
- through France, into Spain, take over North Africa
- converted to Arian Christian
- defeated by Franks under Clovis in 496
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Vandals
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- Poland in 1st century
- two groups Asdings & Silings
- joined with Alans and converted into Roman army
- in Spain in 408
- Byzantium settles them in 410 in Iberian
- attacked by Visigoths, under Wallia, in 416
- 429 vandal King Gaiseric to straits of Gibraltar, take Carthage in 433
- 442 Vandals independent kingdom in North Africa
- naval attacks Rome in 455
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Lombards
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- into Carpathian Basin
- cross Rhine
- join with Hungarian Avars and Magyars
- destroy Gepids
- 568 join with Gepids
- into Italy
- Milan 569 capital of Lombards under Alboin
- defeated by Charlemagne
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Hungarian Magyar
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- settled in Europe in 955
- Roman Catholic in 1000
- Hungarian King Steven, then followers - northwest and southwest
- destroyed Slavs
- extended until meet Muslims in Italy
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Swedes
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- east to Ukraine and west Russia
- into Black Sea through Russia
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Vikings
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- south into Europe
- conquered from Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland
- art of war
- raid every year
- attack monasteries - war leaders or kings attract great warriors
- no primo geniture
- Lindisfarne attacked in 793
- Jaro attacked in 794
- Iona attacked in 802/806
- invaded Ireland 800-850
- Irish monasticism ruined - 835 Danes attacked North England
- Northumbria destroyed in 867
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Muslims
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- 711 Muslims take over Iberian Peninsula
- defeated by Charles Martel in France in 732
- 827 in Sicily
65
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Tacitus on Germanic Retainers
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Comitatas- young men of good family, pledge allegiance to good warriors. Germanic retainers companions, not servants, of aristocracy, fewer in number, treated with distinction, and had more influence
