Rome's "Legacy": Byzantium, The Papacy, & The RCC Flashcards
Rome’s legacy chronology (ad)
440 Roman bishop ( Leo I) claims supremacy over other bishops
843 restoration of icons in the eastern Church
1054 “great schism” (East - west) begins (ends 1965)
1204 Constantinople attacked as part of the fourth crusade
1453 Constantinople falls to the ottoman Turks
440 ad
Roman bishop ( Leo I) claims supremacy over other bishops
843 ad
Restoration of icons in the eastern church
1054
“Great schism” (east-west) begins (1965 ends)
1204 ad
Constantinople attacked as part of the 4th crusade
1453 ad
Constantinople falls to the ottoman Turks
Roman bishop (Leo 1) claims supremacy over other bishops
440 ad
Restoration of icons in the eastern church
843 ad
“Great schism” (East - west) begins (1965 ends)
1054 ad
Constantinople attacked as part of the 4th crusade
1204 ad
Constantinople falls to the ottoman Turks
1453 ad
What is canonization in the RCC?
The definitive sentence by which the pope declares a particular dead person to have already entered into heavenly glory & ordains for the new “saint” a public cult throughout the Church
Ottoman Empire. What is it? Where is it established and who established it? What would it ultimately do?
Muslim empire of the Turks.
Established in northern Asia Minor by Osman I
Would ultimately capture Constantinople
What is Seljuk?
Turkish dynasty that ruled parts of Asia Minor
What was Constantinople called previously? What’s it called today?
Byzantium
presently known as Istanbul (Turkey)
What was the advantage of Constantinople’s site?
Strategically located for commercial & political influence
Byzantine history summarized by periods
Expansion
Peril
Recovery
Disintegration
Byzantine expansion period
Reign of Justinian
Byzantine peril period
- The iconoclastic controversy
A) icons were religious images used to foster worship - flat pictures, mosaics
B) iconoclasts (people) tried to destroy all icons - The veneration of icons was allowed and they remain a part of Eastern Orthodoxy
Byzantine recovery period
Byzantium experienced a “golden age”