Significance Of The Council Of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon in 451 CE is significant to the development and message of Christianity because not only was there a review of old legislation by reflecting on, and deciding if the rulings were still valid, it also affirmed that the Roman Catholic Church was irrefutably divided. The East-West Schism was the division of the Catholic Church into what would become the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. Although it did not occur until 1053, the issue of a schism became a possibility when the Roman Empire was divided in 293 CE and was all but solidified as an inevitable conclusion following the Council of Chalcedon. Called by Eastern Emperor Marcian, the Council is seen as the last meeting of a unified Catholic Church
The panic that struck the city of Rome in 452 when Attila the Hun stood on the outskirts of the city with an army was not quelled by a diplomatic message from the emperor or general. The savior of Rome from Attila the Hun came in the form of Pope Leo the Great. The details of how Leo was able to convince Attila to leave are still not and may never be known, but at the time it was a miracle of God that allowed Leo the Great to turn him around. The Christians of Rome then began to look to the Pope for guidance when they needed it instead of the Emperor. The fallout from the invasions of the Vikings and Huns in particular created a massive problem for the undersupplied and poorly governed Western Roman Empire. The settlement of entire Germanic kingdoms, most of which were made up of refugees, into the Northern peripheries of the Western Roman territories was only aiding fuel to the fire burning in the city of Rome. Two years after Pope Leo was able to turn away Attila from Rome the city was sacked by one of the Germanic kingdoms who were not receiving the aid they had been told they would receive. The sack of Rome in 455 kicked off a massive power struggle for the Italian Peninsula between Romans, Germanic Romans, and Germanic barbarians.
The revival of Romanesque architecture, the reevaluation of ancient schools of thought, and the challenge of previously irrefutable religious doctrine in the years that conclude the Middle Ages, have cast the era in a negative light giving the impression it was nothing more than a thousand years of stagnation and disease. Although it is heavily overshadowed by its preceding and succeeding eras, the Medieval Era stand as a critically important time in the history of man. A victim of circumstance of expectations due to its place between two periods of great achievement, the Medieval Era furnished the development and establishment of Christianity, and also witnessed the materialization of kingdoms from the ruin of the Roman Empire thru their evolution into the blueprint that formed modern European countries today. Reminders of how crucially important and remarkably impactful the Medieval Era was to the history of the World are visible in everyday life. The influence of those European nations whose history can be traced back to the Medieval Ages, as well as the impact Christianity has had on a Global scale,