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Boethius death and the Consolation of Philosophy: ❌ St Benedict's founding of Monte Cassino: ❌ Publication of the Codex Justinianus: ❌ The Gothic Wars: ❌ Death of Justinian: ❌ St Gregory's papacy: ❌ The Synod of Whitby: ❌
An orderly and logical arrangement of rules or laws:
Latin for 'bound manuscript':
The name given to the civilization that came from the city of Byzantium, renamed Constantinople:
Constantinople, a term referring to the Eastern Roman Empire and its people:
Referring to those members of the Church who are not members of the clergy:
Lay Christians:
An extended family or association of families with loyalty to one head, the clan chief:
A Gaelic priest belonging to a guild or caste of hereditary priests who came from the aristocracy or ruling class:
Belonging to the 'primate':
Chief bishop of a land:
The town or place where a bishop has his seat:
In name only, not in actual fact:
The disciplines that are the foundation of all learning:
What are the Seven Liberal Arts (in order!)? , , , , , ,
The art of which teaches orderly thinking:
The art of public speaking:
God's foreknowledge of what history will bring, and his direction of history to serve His will:
Separated from the world for the sake of prayer and contemplation:
The chief high official of the Roman government:
A council or assembly of the clergy of one geographic region of the Church:
Power over things having to do with life in this world:
Has to do with eternal or spiritual things:
A picture made from thousands of little tiles of glass or stone:
A compilation of Roman law made during Justinian's reign:
Justinian Code:
"Servant of the Servants of God" - title chosen by St Gregory for himself and now given to all popes:
The liturgy officially accepted by the pope as the liturgy for Rome and the Western Church:
The form of sacred music sung in the churches of the Roman Rite:
The constitution of Western monastic life, first drawn up by St Benedict for his monks at Monte Cassino:
"the Great" emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and lawgiver:
Justinian's general and conqueror of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths:
Missionary to the Irish:
Statesman, philosopher, author of textbooks of ancient learning:
Founder of Western monasticism and author of the Rule:
Pope, rebuilder of Italy after the devastation of the Gothic Wars:
Missionary to the Saxons in England: