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Words of Christianity and Islam Book (Social and Political Renewal in Post…
Words of Christianity and Islam Book
Multiple Christianities
Byzantium
Church
Treated as branch of imperial administration
Constanstinople made a patriarch
Monastic life
Internal divisions - Constantine tried to enforce unity by persecuting heretics.
In Asia and Africa
Alexandria resisted Justinian's imperial domination.
Armenia with distinct flavor of christianity
Sasanid tolerated Christianity, Nestorians in the east.
Christianity in Ethiopia from Merchants. Axum - official religion
Western Europe
Rebuilt society on Christian beliefs in rubble of Roman Empire.
Charlemagne believed he was chosen by God to rule and protect Christian people.
Roman 'papa'
Elected bishops as spiritual and temporal leaders. - Saints worship
Pope Gregory I was an early leader
Social and Political Renewal in Post Roman Word
Crisis and Survival of Byzantine Empire.
Costly wars put in behind
Latin church splitting. Under Charlamange?
Muslim Encroachment. Eventually pulled out of it.
Germanic Successor Stats in Western Europe.
Germans were already partially Romanized
Lived in patriarchal farming communities. Cattle were important.
Charismatic military leaders and Shifting tribe alignments.
Goths driven as refugees from the Huns attacked Rome and conquered. Visigoths in southern gaul
Franks from Southern Germany allied with Christian bishops at fall of Roman empire to preserve order.
Charles Martel fought off Muslims at Tours and was king with his descendants as Carolus.
Charlemagne crowed King by Pope Leo II, showing church and state would be intertwined.
Economic Contraction and Renewal in Christendom
Urban culture of Rome withered.
Manor was established with serfs in Carolingian realms. - Hurt the economy.
Byzantine economy did better.
Origin of the Slavs and the founding of Rus
Sort of like the Germans, less sophisticated?
Eastern slavs - Byzantine church. Western Slavs - Latin
