Chapter 7 Flashcards
(23 cards)
Dominate
The openly authoritarian style of Roman rule from Diocletian onward; the word was derived from dominus (“master” or “lord” and contrasted with principate
Tetrarchy
The “rule by four” consisting of two co-emperors and two assistant emperors/ designated successors. Initiated Diocletian to subdivide the ruling of the Roman Empire into 4 regions
Coloni (Kuh LOH ny)
Literally, “cultivators”, tenant farmers in the Roman Empire who become bound by law to the land they worked whose children were legally required to continue to farm the same land
Curial’s (KYUR ee uhls)
The social elite in the Roman Empires cities or toque most of whom were obliged to serve as decisions on municipal senates and collect taxes for the imperial government, paying any shortfalls themselves
Great persecution
the violent program initiated by Diocletian in 303 to make Christians convert to traditional religion or risk confiscation of their property or even death
Edict of Milan
The proclamation of Roman co-emperors Constantine (313) and Licinius ordering free choice of religion in the empire
Nicene Creed
The doctrine agreed on by the council of bishops convened by Constantine at Nicaea in 325 to defend orthodoxy against Arianism. It declared that God the Father and Jesus were homoousian (of one substance)
Asceticism (uh SEH tuh sit zuhm)
The practice of self denial, especially through spiritual discipline; a doctrine for Christians emphasized by Augustine
Visigoths
The name given to the barbarians whom Alaric united and led on a military campaign into the Western Roman Empire to establish a new kingdom; they sacked Rome in 410
Wergild
Under Frankish law, the payment that the murderer had to make as compensation for the crime, to prevent feuds of revenge
Diocletian
Roman Empire emperor who reigned from 284-305
Ended 50 years of civil war by imposing the most autocratic system of rule in roman history
Odoacer
The leader of the ostrogoths who carved out a kingdom in Italy in the fifth century
Clovis
Frankish king who overthrew the Visigoth king in Gaul and created the merovingian dynasty
Benedictine Rule
Benedict of Nursia c.480-553
mandated the monasteries daily routine of prayer, spiritual scriptural writings and manual labour. Divided the day into seven parts each with a compulsory service of prayers and lessons called the office
Ostrogoths
a group of barbarians who carved out a kingdom in Italy in the fifth century
Edict on Maximum priced and wages
an attempt to set maximum prices of goods to control the economy and inflation
Constantonople (New Rome)
Became a refiguring of a new Rome because of its strategic military and commercial location
had an imperial palace, hippodrome, grew to be the most important city in the Roman Empire
Who was also known as dominus
Diocletian, also means lord or master
Julian the Apostate
The roman emperor (r.361-363) who rejected Christianity and tried to restore traditional religion as the state religion. Apostate means “renegade from the faith”
Theodosius I
The Roman Emperor (379-395) who made Christianity the state religion by ending public sacrifices in traditional cults and closing their temples. In 395 he also divided the empire into Western and eastern halves to be ruled by his sons
Augustine
354-430 bishop in North Africa whose writings defining religious orthodox made him the most influential theologian in Western civilization
Arianism
the Christian Doctrine named after Arius who argued that Jesus was “begotten” by God and didn’t have an identical nature w god the father
Justinian and Theodora
sixth century emperor and empress of the Eastern Roman Empire, famous for waging costly wars to reunite the Empire
