Chapter Outline

I. Geography

II. Early Medieval Society

1. Land
2. Ethnicity

III. Early Medieval Politics

1. Localism and Kingship [WEB: Medieval Legal Texts]
2. Merovingian Gaul
3. Visigothic Iberia [TXT: The Visigothic Code (Forum iudicum)][At Libro]

IV. The Early Medieval Church [TXT: Gelasius: On the Two Powers] [TXT: Leo I: On The Petrine Doctrine]

1. Monasticism [WEB: Order of St. Benedict]
1. Origins [TXT: Athanasius of Alexandria: Life of Anthony]
2. Celtic [TXT: St. Patrick (5th Cent): Confession]
3. St. Benedict and His Rule [TXT: Rule of St. Benedict][IMG: St. Benedict]
4. Contribution of Benedictine Monks and Nuns

2. Pope Gregory the Great (.r.590-604) [TXT: Gregory I (r.590-604): Letter to Abbot Mellitus][IMGGregory the Great-MS illumination]
3. The Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons [TXT: Bede (673-735): Ecclesiastical History The Conversion of England]
4. Popular Christianity [WEB: Saints, Sainthood and Society]

V. Intellectual Life

1. Isidore
2. Monastic Schools
3. Bede [2ND: Catholic Encyclopedia: The Venerable Bede][IMG: Bede at Work]