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King of Kent, a region in south eastern Britain bordering on the English channel

Capital of the kingdom of Kent and seat of the archbishop and head of the English church

Pope who dispatched missionaries to northern Europe who wrote theological works and saints' biographies

A monk who converted king Aethelbert to Christianity and became the first archbishop of Canterbury

Christian daughter of a Frankish king who married king Aethelbert and helped establish Christianity in Britain

Meeting in 664 at which roman usages and the date for Easter were adopted, thus bringing English Christianity into the roman tradition

Irish monk who founded monasteries off the coast of Scotland and in northern England

Irish monk who founded monasteries in the Frankish kingdoms

Monastery founded by columbanus in 590 in modern northeastern France that became a famous center of learning

Missionary appointed by Pope Gregory ll to oversee the conversion of the northern Germanic peoples

Ecclesiastical administrative unit over which a bishop presides

Smaller ecclesiastical administrative unit, in which a Parish priest serves a local church

Official church of the bishop's authority

Religious services during which the officiating priest prays for the souls of the dead

Tax of one-tenth of property levied by the church on all Christians to help sustain it's activities

Pertaining to the worldly as opposed the the spiritual or ecclesiastical realm; relating to the state as opposed to the church

Official teachings of the church

Institution that carries out the duties of the bishop of Rome, the pope

Large territory in central Italy ruled by the pope and from which the papacy derived a large portion of its wealth

A forged mid 8th century document purporting to be a transfer of land and power in the western empire from Emperor Constantine to Pope Silvester

Founder of the Benedictine Order of monks who devised a mode of monastic living that proved successful and was widely adopted

Set of regulations followed by a religious community that established the schedule of worship and manual labor

Daily cycle of prayers and services in a monastery

Enclosed courtyard of a monastery; also the entire monastery itself

Someone who serves as a secretary or copies manuscripts in a formal script

Monk known as the Venerable Bede for his great learning; author of The Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Colorful decorations on gold leaf and brightly colored links on medieval manuscripts

Merovingian kings' military commander and chief governor of a province

Known as "the Hammer", the mayor of the palace in Austrasia who established the Carolingian dynasty

Named after Charles (Carolus) Martel that replaced merovingians as kings of the Franks

Son of Charles Martel, the first of his sons to assume, in 750, the title of king of the Franks

Son of Pepin; king of the Franks who became emperor of the west in 800

Concept of kingship introduced by Charlemagne in which the king assumes responsible for government and church affairs

Major landowners and supporters of Frankish kings; a count's territory corresponded to a county

Inspectors appointed by Charlemagne to oversee how counts used his authority

Charlemagne's capital; today in northwest Germany and known to the French as Aix-la-chapelle

A register of laws and varying kinds of documents used in monasteries and secular courts

Important scholar and cleric appointed by Charlemagne to oversee the school established at his court in Aachen

Collections of Christian rites, like the Mass, performed in church services

The classic course of study comprising the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) and the quadrivium (astronomy, geometry, music, and arithmetic

Charlemagne's only surviving son who had already assumed the title of emperor within his father's lifetime

The king of the western Franks, a position inherited from his father, emperor Louis the Pious

Division of the Franks empire in 843 among Louis's heirs into the three portions that laid the basis for the future political division of europe

Modern Belgium and the Netherlands, so described because they are on a low plain along the north sea