Western Christianity in the Middle Ages Timeline. Dark Ages

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Western Christianity in the Middle Ages

• Timeline.
• Dark Ages barbarian invasions
• Papacy
• Piety
• Crusades
• Gothic architecture
• St. Anselm of Canterbury

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Middle Ages Timeline

• 6th-10th c. The Early Middle Ages
• ? 11th-13th c. The High Middle Ages
• ? 14th- 15th c. The Late Middle Ages

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Barbarian invasions
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Moslem Empire in 656
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Moslem Empire in 750
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The Rise of the Papacy

• Gregory accepted the bishopric of Rome at the
  time of famine and epidemic
• Rebuilt the infrastructure of the city
• Effectively acted as the ruler of Rome
• Instituted penitential system in the Church

Pope Gregory the Great (590-604 A. D.)
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The Father of Western Monasticism St. Benedict
of Nursia (480-547)

• Monastic vows
• Poverty
• Chastity
• Obedience
• (Stability)

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Monastic reforms

• Original rule St Benedict
• Cluniac reform 910 AD
• Cistercian reform 1098 AD
• Mendicant orders Franciscans (1209) Dominicans
  (1221)

Remains of Cluny monastery. France.
Citeaux monastery
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Monasteries in the US Today

• Cistercian (Trappist) Assumption Abbey for men in
  Ava, Missouri http//assumptionabbey.org
• Cistercian (Trappist) New Melleray Abbey for men
  in Dubuque, Iowa http//www.newmelleray.org/index
  .html
• Our Lady of the Mississippi monastery for women
  in Dubuque, Iowa http//www.mississippiabbey.org

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Cult of the Saints

• Pilgrimages to holy places
• Intercession of the saints
• Veneration of relics

St. Martin of Tours (d. 397).
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St. Martin of Tours shares his cloak with a beggar
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Pope Urban II preaches the first Crusade (1095)
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Jerusalem in the center of the world
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Gothic architecture. Chartres Cathedral
(1194-1260).
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St. Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109)

• the forerunner of scholasticism
• Fides querens intellectum faith seeking
  understanding
• Harmony of faith reason
• Ontological argument for the existence of God
• Meditation on human redemption