500 ad europe

754 AD St. Boniface murdered by the Frysians in the Lowlands. Charlemagne was even said to have taken columns from San Vitale to complete his chapel. 1367 AD Urban V is successful in returning the pope to Rome. Some four inches in diameter, the rock crystal, now in the British Museum, is carved with eight detailed scenes from the Old Testament story of Susanna. 1381 AD The presence of the Black Death in England works to the advantage of English peasants, causing a shortage of labor, a freeing of serfs, a rise in salary and a decrease in rent. The patron saint of the city is Mauritius, who, as a military leader fighting for Christianity against pagan armies, shares affinities with Otto himself. King John of England loses Normandy and the surrounding area to the French king, Philip Augustus. 700 AD Benedictine missionaries complete the conversion of England begun by St. Gregory the Great. King Offa. He is quickly made a martyr by the English public and is revered as the greatest saint of English history. 1164 AD Henry II constructs the Constitutions of Clarendon in an attempt to regain power for the civil courts, which have been loosing authority to ecclesiastical ones. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav31n=MSFPpreload("Secret/_derived/procopius-intro.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav31h=MSFPpreload("Secret/_derived/procopius-intro.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn_a.gif"); } The government of Venice becomes a merchant oligarchy; Milan is ruled by dynastic despotism; and Florence becomes a republic, ruled by the rich. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav12n=MSFPpreload("../Roman/_derived/index.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav12h=MSFPpreload("../Roman/_derived/index.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn_a.gif"); } 1330 AD Oxford theologian John Wyclif is born. Alcuin sets up schools, sees to the copying of classical Latin texts and develops a new handwriting. 1198 AD Innocent III, the founder of the Papal State, is thirty-seven when he is elected pope. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav16n=MSFPpreload("../Pseudepigrapha/_derived/index.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav16h=MSFPpreload("../Pseudepigrapha/_derived/index.htm_cmp_pie-charts2110_hbtn_a.gif"); } His rule exemplifes the strength of the governmental foundations set up by Henry II. Aquinas believes in the contemplation of God through the natural order, though ultimate truths are revealed only by studying the revelations of the Bible. Few images of clothing are left to us of that period, and real information is scanty at best. var a=new Image(); a.src=img; return a; His writings serve as the sole testimony to much of the architecture of his day, as most of these buildings no longer stand. The Roman Empire in decline. In the early part of the period, the stability of the empire encourages stability on its borders. 1187 AD Muslims recapture Jerusalem, and the Third Crusade is ordered. // -->