1. STUDENT NOTES FOR CH. 7
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2. A History of Western Society
CHAPTER 7
Late Antiquity, 250–600

3. Division of Empire Diocletian Tetrarchy Empire in half
Then into fourths
Final authority Diocletian

4. Constantine
Successor
Continued Work
Building projects

6. The Acceptance of Christianity
-Sunday=holiday -Encouraged gifts to the church -No taxes for clergy -Nicene Creed -Nicene Christianity

7. The Church and Its Leaders
-Leadership -Structure: -Districts made under the supervision the bishops (called dioceses) -Bishops in charge of these districts and of church land -from prominent families -5 from Antioch, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Constantinople, Rome -Claimed to trace back to 12 disciples

8. -Bishops
-Popes
-Secular authority

9. The Development of Christian Monasticism
-Monasticism -origins -Pachomius -organized thousands -Spread of Monasticism -dangers realized

10. Monastery Life -Saint Benedict -Two types of clergy - regular
- secular
-Successes

11. Christian Notions of Gender and Sexuality
- “Radical” Gender notions
Traditional Gender notions
Rejection of Sexuality

12. Saint Augustine Influential in the West Background The Confessions
Original Sin
What is will?
Grace/Sacraments
Barbarians capture Rome
Grasp onto Augustine’s theories

13. Barbarian
Conquest of Rome by an army of Visigoths, one of the many peoples the Romans labeled “barbarians.”
Meaning of barbarian???

14. Barbarian Society What was village and family life like?
How was it determined who was chief?
Laws and Religion

15. Barbarian Groups Celts Germans Called Gauls by the Romans
(Those who spoke a Celtic language)
Ostrogoths
Visigoths
Burgundians
Franks
(Those who spoke a Germanic language)

16. Christian Missionaries and Conversion
A. Missionaries’ Actions
1. Christianity in Gaul
2. Barbarian Conversion to Arian Christianity
3. Christianity in Ireland
4. Christianity in Anglo-Saxon Britain

17. Christian Missionaries and Conversion
The Process of Conversion
1. Built Churches
2. Preaching
3. Assimilation
4. Penance

18. The Byzantine Empire
Sources of Byzantine Strength
1. Survived Assaults
2. Reasons for Survival
3. The Byzantine emperors traced their line of succession back to Augustus

19. The Byzantine Empire
The Law Code of Justinian
1. Preservation of Roman Law
2. The Code
3. The Digest (533) — Codified Roman jurisprudence (science or philosophy of law)/Slavery
4. The Institutes — A handbook of civil law.

20. Byzantine Intellectual Life (continued)
Transmitters of Classical Knowledge — Passed Greco-Roman learning on to the Arabs.
Advances in Military Technology — “Greek fire” (an early flamethrower).
Medicine — More advanced than in Europe but unable to deal with the plague that killed 10,000s of people.