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Title: 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
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