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Battle Recreation Constantine is victorious over Maxentius in a battle outside Rome, called the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. Following this battle, Christianity will become licit and Constantine promotes Christianity.
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Dickinson College Text Lives 363-425 (approximately) and writes the life of St. Martin.
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Liberius dies and the succession crisis begins. Eventually Damasus ascends to the papacy. He would remake Rome's catacombs to focus intensely on saints and order many epigrams written.
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Sometime after 403, he visits Rome and writes the Peristephanon. In 405, Prudentius publishes numerous poems and dies soon thereafter.
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Alaric I and his Goths sack Rome for the first time in almost 800 years.
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Augustine completes 'City of God' in reaction to the sack of Rome.
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Augustine Bio Augustine dies during the Vandal sacking of Hippo.
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Vandals sack Rome under the direction of Genseric. Plundered Rome for 14 days and caused more devastation than the Visigoths structurally.
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Columba (521-597) Irish Celtic missionary. Columba was born in Donegal, Ireland. Very little is known about his early life and education. He studied at Celtic schools, and in 551 was ordained a priest. Later, in 563, at the age of 42, he and 12 of his followers sailed to Scotland, where he established a centre of missionary. activity at Iona. His labours resulted in spreading Christianity throughout the entire island of Britain. The picture left is the abbey of Iona.
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Boethius writes the 'Consolation of Philosophy' in exile.
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Death of the emperor Justinian.
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Example of a Merovingian script from Tours.
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Text of the Vita Columbae Written around 700, the Vita Columbae Adomnán (also known as Eunan), the ninth Abbot of Iona, who died in 704. Adomnán categorizes the Vita Columbae into three different books: Columba’s Prophecies, Columba’s Miracles, and Columba’s Apparitions.
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Venerable Bede's magnum opus is completed. It begins with the invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar in 55 BCE, and is seminal in showing the 'christianization' of Britain.
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Arabs defeated by Charles Martel in France on October of 732. Burgundians and Franks led by Martel went up against the Umayyad Caliphate and was victorious. Also called the Battle of Poitiers.
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Alcuin born in Northumbria. He would be a leading figure in the court of Charlemagne in the 780s and 90s.
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Pepin the Short dethrones last Merovingian King and is crowned king of the Franks by Boniface, bishop of Mainz. Two years later, in 754, Pope Stephen II would recrown Pepin in Paris.
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Peter of Pisa summoned to the court of Charlemagne to teach Latin.
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"Songs from Beuern" is a manuscript of 254 poems and dramatic texts mostly from the 11th or 12th century, with some are from the 13th century.
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Bayeux Tapestry In the Norman Conquest of Englander, William the Conqueror is victorious. King Harold II died in battle. The famous Bayeux Tapestry depicts the conquest and reminds us that history is not just recorded in text.
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(1090 – August 20, 1153) The French abbot was a writer and a reformer of the Cistercian order.
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Pope Urban II launches the First Crusade.
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Abelard begins seducing Heloise (1115-17)
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Peter goes to England and serves Henry II (pictured here).
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First outbreak of the Black Death in Asia.
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Christine de Pizan publishes the Book of the City of Ladies. The book serves as her response to Jean de Meun's The Romance of the Rose. Christine creates an allegorical city of ladies.
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Jerome commissioned to translate the Bible into Latin. Known as the Bulgate Bible, it replaced the Old Latin Bible.
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Manuscript IlluminationJerome writes his letter to Eustochium.
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Augustine converted in the garden, after hearing children's voices. At Easter of the following year, Augustine is baptized by Ambrose.
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Prudentius Born in Northern Spain.
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Clovis, King of the Franks, becomes king. He will eventually unite Gaul under Merovingian rule and convert to Catholic Christianity.
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Account of the Conversion Clovis converted (likely from Arianism, though Gregory claims 'paganism') to Catholic Christinaity. He thus unites his kindgdom with a religious identity and attaches himself with papacy.
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Boethius, "the last of the Romans", born in Rome. Born to a consular family, he was educated by Symmachus.
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Flavius Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator (c. 485 – c. 585).
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Although date is uncertain, it has been proposed that they are dated 960 to 990.
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Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne on Christmas Day.
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The Umayyads in Spain proclaimed themselves caliphs in 929, but had occupied it since the 8th century.
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