Chapter 6: Founders of Christendom Quiz

Boethius death and the Consolation of Philosophy: [blank_start]AD 524[blank_end] St Benedict's founding of Monte Cassino: [blank_start]AD 529[blank_end] Publication of the Codex Justinianus: [blank_start]AD 533[blank_end] The Gothic Wars: [blank_start]AD 535-554[blank_end] Death of Justinian: [blank_start]AD 565[blank_end] St Gregory's papacy: [blank_start]AD 590-604[blank_end] The Synod of Whitby: [blank_start]AD 663[blank_end]

An orderly and logical arrangement of rules or laws: [blank_start]code[blank_end]

Latin for 'bound manuscript': [blank_start]codex[blank_end]

The name given to the civilization that came from the city of Byzantium, renamed Constantinople: [blank_start]Byzantine[blank_end]

Constantinople, a term referring to the Eastern Roman Empire and its people: [blank_start]Nova Roma[blank_end]

Referring to those members of the Church who are not members of the clergy: [blank_start]lay[blank_end]

Lay Christians: [blank_start]laity[blank_end]

An extended family or association of families with loyalty to one head, the clan chief: [blank_start]clan[blank_end]

A Gaelic priest belonging to a guild or caste of hereditary priests who came from the aristocracy or ruling class: [blank_start]Druid[blank_end]

Belonging to the 'primate': [blank_start]primatial[blank_end]

Chief bishop of a land: [blank_start]primate[blank_end]

The town or place where a bishop has his seat: [blank_start]see[blank_end]

In name only, not in actual fact: [blank_start]nominal[blank_end]

The disciplines that are the foundation of all learning:[blank_start]seven liberal arts[blank_end]

What are the Seven Liberal Arts (in order!)? [blank_start]grammar[blank_end], [blank_start]logic[blank_end], [blank_start]rhetoric[blank_end], [blank_start]arithmetic[blank_end], [blank_start]geometry[blank_end], [blank_start]astronomy[blank_end], [blank_start]music[blank_end]

The art of which teaches orderly thinking: [blank_start]logic[blank_end]

The art of public speaking: [blank_start]rhetoric[blank_end]

God's foreknowledge of what history will bring, and his direction of history to serve His will: [blank_start]Providence[blank_end]

Separated from the world for the sake of prayer and contemplation: [blank_start]cloistered[blank_end]

The chief high official of the Roman government: [blank_start]prefect[blank_end]

A council or assembly of the clergy of one geographic region of the Church: [blank_start]synod[blank_end]

Power over things having to do with life in this world: [blank_start]temporal power[blank_end]

Has to do with eternal or spiritual things: [blank_start]spiritual power[blank_end]

A picture made from thousands of little tiles of glass or stone: [blank_start]mosaic[blank_end]

A compilation of Roman law made during Justinian's reign: [blank_start]Justinian Code[blank_end]

Justinian Code: [blank_start]Codex Justinianus[blank_end]

"Servant of the Servants of God" - title chosen by St Gregory for himself and now given to all popes: [blank_start]Servus Servorum Dei[blank_end]

The liturgy officially accepted by the pope as the liturgy for Rome and the Western Church: [blank_start]Roman Rite[blank_end]

The form of sacred music sung in the churches of the Roman Rite: [blank_start]Gregorian Chant[blank_end]

The constitution of Western monastic life, first drawn up by St Benedict for his monks at Monte Cassino: [blank_start]The Rule of St Benedict[blank_end]

"the Great" emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and lawgiver: [blank_start]Justinian I[blank_end]

Justinian's general and conqueror of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths: [blank_start]Belisarius[blank_end]

Missionary to the Irish: [blank_start]St Patrick[blank_end]

Statesman, philosopher, author of textbooks of ancient learning: [blank_start]Boethius[blank_end]

Founder of Western monasticism and author of the Rule: [blank_start]St Benedict of Nursia[blank_end]

Pope, rebuilder of Italy after the devastation of the Gothic Wars: [blank_start]St Gregory the Great[blank_end]

Missionary to the Saxons in England: [blank_start]St Augustine of Canterbury[blank_end]