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THE RISE OF THE
MEDIAEVAL CHURCH
AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE CIVILISATION OF
WESTERN EUROPE FROM THE FIRST TO THE
THIRTEENTH CENTURY
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BY
ALEXANDER CLARENCE FLICK, Ph. D., Litt. D.
BURT FRANKLIN
New York, N. Y.
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TO
HENRY C. LEA
Who through his numerous scholarly monographs has earned the foremost
place among American Church historians, both at home and abroad,
AND TO
PROFESSOR DOCTOR ADOLPH HARNACK
To whom both the Old and the New World are profoundly indebted for his
scholarly labours, and from whose inspiration in public lectures and
private conferences this work derived much that is best in it,
This Book is Gratefully Dedicated.
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PREFACE
The educational value of any subject depends primarily upon its own intrinsic value. The teaching of Church history for ten years as a regular course in liberal arts, side by side with the "orthodox" courses in history, has demonstrated beyond que
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HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH*
FOURTH PERIOD
THE CHURCH AMONG THE BARBARIANS
FROM GREGORY I. TO GREGORY VII.
a.d. to
CHAPTER II.
CONVERSION OF THE NORTHERN AND WESTERN BARBARIANS
§ 6. Character of Mediaeval Missions.
The conversion of the new and savage races which enter the theatre of history at the threshold of the middle ages, was the great work of the Christian church from the sixth to the tenth century. Already in the second or third century, Christianity was carried to the Gauls, the Britons and the Germans on the borders of the Rhine. But these were sporadic efforts with transient results. The work did not begin in earnest till the sixth century, and then it went vigorously forward to the tenth and twelfth, though with many checks and temporary relapses caused by civil wars and foreign invasions.
The Christianization of the Kelts, Teutons, and Slavonians was at the same time a process of civilization, and differed in this respect entirely from the conversion of the Jews, Greeks, and Romans in the preceding age. Christian missionaries laid the foundation for the alphabet, literature, agriculture, laws, and arts of the nations of Northern an