VII Secolo (600-700)

Question 1

“three separate worlds”

Answer 1

Byzantine, Europe, Muslim

Question 2

Three elements in birth of Europe

Answer 2

Slavic/Germanic peoples, Roman Culture, Latin Catholicism

Question 3

Year: conversion of visigoths

Answer 3

587

Question 4

Year: St. Augustine of Canterbury sent to England

Answer 4

596

Question 5

Lone place of cultural flourishing

Answer 5

Ireland (book of Kells, advances in writing, monks with good educations)

Question 6

2 Heresies

Answer 6

Monothelitism (one will), monoenergism (one energy)

Question 7

The great civilizing power?

Answer 7

The Church: teaching people how to read, slowly eradicating non-christian customs of converts

Question 8

Year: Mohammed begins to preach

Answer 8

622

Question 9

St. Adomnan (+704)

Answer 9

Hagiographer, De locis sanctis, Vita Columbae, Scholia in Virgilio

Question 10

St. Cummian († 662)

Answer 10

Epistula de Controversia Pascuali, Commentarium in Evangelium secundum Marcum,
De figuris apostolorum, Poenitentiale Cummeani

Question 11

Three books of Isidore’s sentences

Answer 11

fondamenti dogmatici, ascetica naturale, ascetica cristiana

Question 12

7th century

Answer 12

The Birth of Europe