Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe. New Kingdoms of the Old Western Roman Empire. Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe Background: Christianity in the British Isles. Pope Gregory the Great. Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

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New Kingdoms of the OldWestern Roman Empire

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

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Pope Gregory the Great

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

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Book of Kells

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

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Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms converted from two sources: Celtic Church from the north & Roman Catholic Christianity from the South (Kent)

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

A. St. Boniface (c.680-755)

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

A. St. Boniface (c.680-755)

III. The Role of Monastic Women in Missions

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

A. St. Boniface (c.680-755)

III. The Role of Monastic Women in Missions

A. Rise of Double Monasteries

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

A. St. Boniface (c.680-755)

III. The Role of Monastic Women in Missions

A. Rise of Double Monasteries

1. Role of Abbesses

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

A. St. Boniface (c.680-755)

III. The Role of Monastic Women in Missions

A. Rise of Double Monasteries

1. Role of Abbesses

2. Example of Leoba

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Monks, Abbesses, & the Christianization of Western Europe

I. Background: Christianity in the British Isles

A. Irish Monasticism

B. Fusion of Irish & Roman Christianity in England

II. English Missions to the Continent

A. St. Boniface (c.680-755)

III. The Role of Monastic Women in Missions

A. Rise of Double Monasteries

1. Role of Abbesses

2. Example of Leoba

B. Female Monasticism as an Institution