Significant Terms
It was ruled by the Carolingian dynasty, which had ruled as kings of the Franks since 751 and as kings of the Lombards of Italy from 774.
What is the Carolingian Empire?
A member of a religious community of women, especially a cloistered one, living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
What is a nun?
The office or rank of a bishop. A district under a bishop's control; a diocese.
What is bishopric?
What is plague?
Writing room
What is a scriptorium?
Primary events leading to the collapse of the once great empire were the plundering of the capital city by an invading tribe, the Vandals and the abdication of the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, in 476.
What is the Fall of Rome?
The process of changing or causing something to change from one belief or philosophy to another as in religion.
What is religious conversion?
A Roman official in charge of a province.
What is a procurator?
A person sent on a religious journey, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country.
What is a missionary?
A type of trial.
What is an ordeal?
The second part of the Christian Bible, written originally in Greek and recording the life and teachings of Jesus and his earliest followers.
What is the New Testament?
A woman who is the head of nuns.
What is Abbess?
In Germanic law, the fine paid by a wrongdoer to his or her victim's family.
What is wergild?
Church leaders
What is clergy?
Regular church members.
What is laity?
A letter signed by the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius, that proclaimed religious toleration in the Roman Empire. The letter was issued in February, 313 AD, shortly after the emperor Diocletian and stopped the unfair treatment of Christians.
What is the Edict of Milan?
The worship of a physical object as a god.
What is idolatry?
A religious way of life in which one renounces worldly pursuits to devote oneself fully to spiritual work. It plays an important role in many Christian churches, especially in the Catholic and Orthodox traditions.
What is monasticism?
Emperor of Rome that stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Who is Constantine?
Harassing to cause suffering.
What is persecution?
A form of government in which power is divided between four individuals. In ancient Rome, a system of government instituted by Diocletian that split power between two rulers in the east, and two rulers in the west
What is the Tetrarchy?
Symbolic representation, especially the conventional meanings attached to an image or images. ... the study or analysis of subject matter and its meaning in the visual arts
What is iconography?
The head of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Who is the Patriarch?
"Anointed One"
What is Christos?
Messengers of the lord king.
What is missi dominici?