Hana Ellamey Professor Deidre O’Shea EUH 2000 13 October 2014 Fall of Rome Rome is no longer the shining empirical state as it was when Augustus was in power. There is a clear division according to locality between the east and the west contrasting to the centralized state. As a result‚ the state turned into a destabilized state. The eastern part of Rome fell due to several factors; one of its major ones is the Germanic invasion. Accordingly‚ Europe rose in western Rome. Throughout this essay the
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former describes a deacon with a bad heart who innocently gets bit by a spider while reciting hymns and then dies. Later on‚ there is a very literate and knowledgeable cleric who failed to acknowledge God and was disappeared right before the eyes of Charlemagne‚ who was left smelling burnt coal (Notker 83-84). Similarly‚ because of the anticlericalism Boccaccio displays‚ one section of his stories mention “a miracle to hear of a cleric acting with generosity” (Boccaccio 578)‚ completely parallel to the
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Their works of art have been saved through manuscripts‚ religious sculpture‚ and architecture. Charlemagne‚ the emperor at the time started a cultural revolution which became known as the Carolingian renaissance. Charlemagne saw himself as a new Constantine since he was using a christian model. One of the most important things Charlemagne did was invite well renowned scholars from all over Europe to help him revise his ideas for politics‚ literature‚ and religion (4)
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grw in influence and their congregation of followers increased in size. Kings like Pepin the Short‚ who defended the papacy‚ began to gain power not because they were royal‚ but because they were recognized and honored by the pope. By the time Charlemagne‚ Pepin’s son and a strong King of the Franks‚ was coronated in 800 AD by Pope Leo III‚ it became questionable whether popes and kings were separate
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F rom the Caesar to Charlemagne: Julius Caesar occupied Gaul the people he found living in the modern Belgium were the Belgae‚ one of the various Celtic tribes of early Gaul. The Romans called their new province Gallia Belgica. Several centuries later Charlemagne reunited Gaul and added most of Western Europe to his empire. His successors were not equal to the task of keeping the empire intact and gradually Belgium was split into Flanders‚ the northwestern part it fell to France and the southeastern
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painting was created in A.D. 547 and named The Emperor Justinian and his entourage‚ and belongs to the Basilica of San Vitale. It is a mosaic‚ which connected with the Byzantine art. The background of the picture is a golden mosaic with a beautifully decorated pattern on top and a greenish blue on the bottom. The whole picture is painted white‚ purple‚ yellow‚ green and red alternately. It looks very beautiful‚ bright and dignified. The emperor Justinian was in the center of the picture. He wore a hat inlaid
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chivalric knight is a Christian military soldier. "Certain law" stated a man must be a baptized Catholic in order to become a knight. THE SONG OF ROLAND Meaning: is a heroic poem based on the Battle of Roncesvalles in 778‚ during the reign of Charlemagne. It is the oldest surviving major work of French literature. It exists in various manuscript versions which testify to its enormous and enduring popularity in
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the place in Greek.The name Bucoleon was probably attributed after the end of the 6th century under Justinian I‚ when the small harbour in front of the palace‚ which is now filled‚ was constructed. According to tradition‚ a statue featuring a bull and a lion stood there‚ giving the port its name (βους and λέων are Greek for "bull" and "lion" respectively). "House of Hormisdas" and "House of Justinian" are other names referring to Bucoleon Palace. Emperor Theophilos‚ among his other works‚ rebuilt
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243). Nonetheless‚ in Byzantium architecture both form and function possess their own value. Under Justinian‚ form is the integration of both classical elements and spiritualism with new ideas‚ while function still remains equally relative. In Hagia Sophia‚ viewers can see both classical form and spiritualism at the peak of the basilica and primarily classical at its base. At Hagia Sophia‚ Justinian employed two architects to design and construct the massive church; Anthemius and Isidorus. In its
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The Conversion of Constantine Constantine the great ruled the Roman Empire in the early fourth century C.E. from 306 until his death in 337 C.E. He became the first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity and legalize the Christian religion. One of the most significant accomplishments during Constantine’s rule as Roman Emperor was the reversal of the Christian persecutions that were put in place by previous Emperor‚ including Diocletian’s great persecution of 303 C.E. There was great controversy
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