Monday, October 30, 2006
Kingdoms of Early Medieval Europe
Italian Peninsula:
Ostrogoths -- Theoderic
-blending of culture
Lombards
Gregory the Great (Pope from 590-604)
Italian Peninsula:
Ostrogoths -- Theoderic
-blending of culture
Lombards
Gregory the Great (Pope from 590-604)
Iberian Peninsula:
Visigoths
King Reccared (r. 586-601)
-Persecution of Jews
Muslim conquest of Spain 711 A.D.
Britain:
Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Frisians
Missionaries:
St. Patrick
St. Columba
St. Augustine of Canterbury
-Synod of Whitby 664 A.D.
The Venerable Bede (673-735 A.D.)
The Continent (France)
-Kingdom of the Franks
-Merovingians: Clovis (r. 481-511)
-Charles Martel
--Battle of Poitiers 732 A.D.
-Carolingian Empire
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