Monastic Life
He is an early Christian hermit who went into the Egyptian desert to live a life of prayer and self-denial.
Who is Anthony of Egypt?
Prior to their encounter with the Roman Empire, Germanic society was pre-literate and governed by this.
What is custom?
Nomads in the Arabian Peninsula
Who are Bedouins?
Arch popularized by the spread of Islamic architecture
What is the horseshoe arch?
Promulgated in 313, it legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire.
What is the Edict of Milan?
The term for communal monastic life.
What is cenobitic monasticism?
Germanic tribes with treaties to provide military service in exchange for settling inside the boundaries of the Roman Empire.
What are foederati?
Name given to followers of Islam
Who are Muslims?
Monastery founded by St Benedict.
What is Monte Cassino?
Non-currency economy that characterized barbarian tribes.
What is gift economy?
He toured monastic institutions in the near east and founded a monastery at Lérins.
Who is John Cassian?
Clovis's wife.
Who is Chlothide?
This is the equivalent to the doctrinal creed of Islam.
What are The Pillars of Faith?
In the early Middle Ages, churches began to be built in this style - like Hagia Sophia - more than the older Roman basilica style.
What is central plan?
The pope who sent Augustine of Canterbury to be a missionary bishop in England
Who is Gregory the Great?
The Irish monastic establishment famous for its beehive-shaped monastic cells.
What is Skellig Michael?
He wrote a salacious ethnography of the Huns
Who is Ammianus Marcellinus?
Because Arab scholars translated the contents of the great Greek libraries into Arabic, this Ancient Greek philosopher's work survives for us today.
Who is Aristotle?
A tall, slender tower on a mosque, from which the call to prayer is issued.
What is a minaret?
The Persian Army's heavy cavalry unit.
Who are the Immortals?
The term that Irish monks use to describe a period of missionary exile.
What is peregrinatio?
This group, which had early contact with the Roman Empire, was forced from England by the invasions of the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes.
Who are the Britons?
The title of the spiritual successor to the prophet Muhammad?
Who is the caliph?
Centerpiece of Justinian's building program in Ravenna, this church contains opulent mosaics of Justinian and Theodora and their retinue.
What is San Vitale?
He rose from Balkan swineherd to Roman Emperor despite being illiterate.
Who is the Emperor Justin?