Transforming the Roman World
9.1
The New Germanic Kingdoms
• Visigoths
• Ostrogoths
• Anglo-Saxons
• Franks
– Only German kingdom to last
– Clovis
• Roman Catholic Church
• Germans and Romans
– Intermarriage
• Family
• Crime and Punishment
– Political verses Personal
– Wergild
• “Money for Man”
– Ordeal
• Divine intervention
The Role of the Church
• Christianity
– System of organization
– Pope
• Gregory I
– Monks
• Saint Benedict
– Rules of living as a Monk
– Nuns
Charlemagne and the Carolingians
• Charlemagne
– Great King
– Carolingian Empire
–Crowned Emperor of the Romans
• Coronation
– Roman, Christian and Germanic
• Carolingian Renaissance
–Promotion of learning
–Classical works
–Monasteries