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Birth of Europe, The

• 1978 ----- color ----- 42 min ----- 16mm/vhs
• (Christians, The series, Part 3) Hordes of Goths and Vandals swept down from the North destroying order and sacking even the city of Rome itself in 410. Christianity was kept alive through the Dark Ages by monks in remote corners of Ireland and Italy from which future modes of Christianity would emerge. Charlemagne's crowning as Holy Roman Emperor in 800 established a new tie between Church and State. In 1094 Pope Urban II made the Abbot of Lerins the highest earthly authority in Europe, second only to the Pope himself. Monks were now civil servants. Thus the feudal hierarchy of the medieval church was established. Rome was the center of Europe again.
• Topics: (British Isles, History: European, Religions: Christian)

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