WCT Timeline

Five Good Emperors

Period: 200 to 300

Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antonius Pius, and Marcus Aurelius, known as the Five Good Emperors, were a series of excellent emperors who rules in Rome from 96-180 AD, following the Flavian Dynasty. THey were called because they suceeded in winning the support and cooperation of the senate, which is something their predecessors had failed to accomplish.

Disastrous third century

250

After the death of Commodus in the previous century the Roman Empire was plunged into a civil war. The majority of these men were assininated or killed in battle, and the empire almost collasped under the weight of the political upheaval, as well as growing Persian threat in the East.

Edict of Milan

313

Constantine and co-Emperor Licinius issued the Edict of Milan 313, which proclaimed religious tolderance of all religions throughout the empire.

Jerome Vulgate

347

He was a Roman Christian priest, confessor, theologian and historian, and he became, Doctor of the Church. He was the son of Eusebius, of the city of of Stridon, which was on the boarder of Dalmatia and Pannonia. He was best known for his translation of BIble into Latin.

Visogoth sack of Rome

Period: 400 to 500

The Sack of Rome occurred on August 24, 410. The city was attacked by the Visigoths, led by Alaric I. At that time, Rome was no longer the capital of the Western Roman Empire, replaced in this position initially by Mediolanum and then later Ravenna.

Slavic Mirgration

Period: 400 to Mar 2, 2022

A perod of intesified huma migration in Europe that occurred. It marked the transition from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages. Migration were catalyzed by profound changes both within the Roman Empire on its "barbarian frontier". The migrants with the most lasting influence were the German tribes.

Corpus Juris Civilis

550

The Corpus Juris Civilis means )body of Civil LAw), which is the modern name. It is a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence and it was issued from 529-534 by the order of Justinian I. It is also sometimes referred to as the Code of Justinian, although this name belongs properly to the part titlled Codex. It is divided into three parts.

Life of Muhannad

570

Was the founder of the religon of Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be a messenger and prephet of God.

Spread of Christianity

Jan 1, 600

Hegira

Jan 1, 622

the departure of Mohammed from Mecca to Medina; the starting point of the Muslim era. Also is alarge group escaping from hostile treatment.

Charles Martel

Jan 1, 732

Also known as Charles the Hammer was a Franksih military and political leader who served as Mayor of the Palace under the Merovingian kings and ruled de facto during an interregnum. Using the title Duke and prince of the Franks. He is rememeber for winning the Muslim army and halted northward Islamic expansion in western Europe.

Pope Saint Leo III

Jan 1, 750

He was was Pope from 795 to his death in 816. Protected by Charlemagne from his enemies in Rome, he subsequently strengthened Charlemagne's position by crowning him as Roman Emperor.Leo aroused the hostility of Rome's nobility, who saw the papal post as reserved for noble candidates. During his rule, he was accused of adultery and perjury.

Leo II

Period: Jan 1, 750 to Mar 2, 2022

He was a pope from 795 to 816 his death. Protected by Charlemagne from his enemies in Rome. He was strengthened b Charlemagne's position by crowning him as Roman Emperor.

Romanesque Style

Jan 1, 1000

This style is an architectural style of Medieval Europe characterised by semi-circular arches. There is no consensus for the beginning date of the Romanesque architecture, with proposals ranging from the 6th to the 10th century. It developed in the 12th century into the Gothic style, more or less c characterised by pointed arches. Many castles were built during this period, but they are greatly outnumbered by churches. The most significant are the great abbey churches.

William of Normandy

Jan 1, 1066

He was also known as William the Conqueror (Guillaume le Conquérant), was the first Norman King of England from Christmas 1066 until his death. He was also Duke of Normandy from 3 July 1035 until his death, under the name William II. Before his conquest of England, he was known as William the Bastard because of the illegitimacy of his birth.

Cistercian Reform

Jan 1, 1088

It was founded by the monks who were dissasitified with the lack or disapline. They were strict and and tehy ate only simple diet and possessed only one rode, and they spent their entire day praying.

Charter of Liberties, commune

Jan 1, 1100

The Charter of Liberties, also called the Coronation Charter, was a written proclamation by Henry I of England, issued upon his accession to the throne in 1100. It was to bind the King to certain laws regarding the treatment of church officials and nobles. It is considered a landmark document in English legal history and a forerunner of Magna Carta.

Era of Gothic Cathedrals

Jan 1, 1163

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.
Originating in 12th century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as "the French Style".

Francis of Assisi

Period: Jan 1, 1182 to Jan 1, 1226

He was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. He founded the men's Franciscan Order, the women’s Order of St. Clare, and the lay Third Order of Saint Francis.[3] St. Francis is one of the most venerated religious figures in history.

Pope Inocent III

Period: Jan 1, 1198 to Jan 1, 1216

He was inactive and powerful pope during the High Middle Ages. He approved the creation of Francisican and the Dominican religous orders and ignagurated he Fourth Crusade.

Cathers, Albigensans

Jan 1, 1209

The Cathers believed in a dual system in which good and evil were seperate and distinct. Humans were enmeshed in dualism which measn there souls were good but they were trapped in bodies that were evil.

Magna Carta

Jan 1, 1215

Magna Carta is an English charter, originally issued in the year 1215 and reissued later in the 13th century in modified versions, which included the most direct challenges to the monarch's authority to date. The charter first passed into law in 1225.

Lateran IV Council

Jan 1, 1215

The Fourth Council of the Lateran was convoked by Pope Innocent III with the papal bull of April 19, 1213, and the Council gathered at Rome's Lateran Palace beginning November 11, 1215. Due to the great length of time between the Council's convocation and meeting, many bishops had the opportunity to attend. It was the 12th ecumenical council and is sometimes called the "Great Council".

Dominic de Guzman

Jan 1, 1220

He was also known as Dominic of Osma, often called Dominic de Guzmán and Domingo Félix de Guzmán. He defended the orthodox teachery from heresy.

Thomas Aquinas

Period: Jan 1, 1225 to Jan 1, 1274

He was an Italian Dominican priest of the Catholic Church, and an immensely influential philosopher and theologian in the tradition of scholasticism. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology, and the father of Thomism. His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy was conceived as a reaction against, or as an agreement with his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory.

Paaelogus Dynasty

Period: Jan 1, 1260 to Jan 1, 1453

They tried to reestablish Byzatine power in the Balkans after the overthrow of the Latin empire, the threat from the Turks finally doomed the long-lasting empire.

Giotto

Period: Jan 1, 1266 to Jan 1, 1337

He was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.

Beginning of French Estates General

Period: Jan 1, 1285 to Jan 1, 1314

the States-General or Estates-General was a legislative assembly of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects. It had a separate assembly for each of the three estates, which were called and dismissed by the king. It had no true power in its own right—unlike the English parliament it was not required to approve royal taxation or legislation instead it functioned as an advisory body to the king, primarily by presenting

English Parliment

Jan 1, 1295

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England. In 1066, William of Normandy introduced a feudal system, by which he sought the advice of a council of tenants-in-chief and ecclesiastics before making laws.

Crusades

Jan 1, 1295

The Crusades were a series of religious wars, blessed by the Pope and the Catholic Church with the main goal of restoring The Crusades were originally launched in response to a call from the leaders of the Byzantine Empire for help to fight Muslim Seljuk Turks expansion into Anatolia; these Turks had cut off access to Jerusalem.

Petrach

Jan 1, 1304

(1304-1374) He has been called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism. He rejected his fathers desire thay he become a lawyer and took up literacy instead.

Avignon oapcy

Period: Jan 1, 1305 to Jan 1, 1378

The Avignon Papacy was the period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven Popes resided in Avignon, in modern-day France.[1] This arose from the conflict between the Papacy and the French crown.A total of seven popes reigned at Avignon; all were French, and all were increasingly under the influence of the French crown. Finally in 1377 Gregory XI moved his court to Rome, officially ending the Avignon papacy.

John Wyclif

Jan 1, 1328

(1328-1384) English Lollardy was a product of the Oxford theologian, whose digust with clerical corruption led him to a far-ranging attack on papal authority. He alleged that there was no basis for Scripture, and that the Bible should be Christian's sole authority. He condemed pilgramages and teh veneration fo the saints, and whole series of rituals that he developed in the medieval churches.

Hundred Year War

Period: Jan 1, 1335 to Jan 1, 1468

The Hundred Years' War was a series of battles waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings.

Black Death

Jan 1, 1347

The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, peaking in Europe between 1348 and 1350. Flee invested rats carried the bubonic plague to both East Asia and Europe by trade routes.

Renaissance

Period: Jan 1, 1350 to Jan 1, 1550

This word means the "Rebirth". The population was reborn. People of this era witnessed the rebirth of antiquity or Greco-Reoman civilization, marking the new age.

Hanseatic League

Jan 1, 1358

The League was created to protect commercial interests and privileges granted by foreign rulers in cities and countries the merchants visited. The Hanseatic cities had their own legal system and furnished their own protection and mutual aid. Despite this, the organization was not a city-state, nor can it be called a confederation of city-states; only a very small number of the cities within the league enjoyed autonomy and liberties comparable to those of a free imperial city.

Leonardo Bruni

Jan 1, 1370

(1370-1444) A humanist, Florentine patriot, a chancellor of the city, wrote a biography of Ceiero titled The new Cicero. From his time on, Cicero served as the inspiration for the Renaissance ideal that it was the duty of an intellectual to live an active life for one's state.

Jan Hus

Jan 1, 1374

(1374-1415) He is often referred to in English as John Hus or John Huss, was a Czech priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague. After John Wycliffe, the theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation, he was, before Luther, Calvin and Zwingli, the first actual Church reformer.
He is famed for having been burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church.

Brunelleschi

Nov 26, 1377

Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) A friend of Donatello, later accompanied him to Rome. He drew much inspiration from the architectural monuments of Roman antiquity. He commissioned to design the dome for the unfinished cathedral of Florence in 1417, but his work did not begin until 1420. Although he would have preferred the Roman hemispheric dome for practical reasons he was forced to elevate teh center of the dome and then lessen the weight of the structure.

Great Schism

Jan 1, 1378

The Great Schism is used to refer to two major events in the history of Christianity: the division between the Eastern (Orthodox) and Western (Roman) churches, and the period (1378 - 1417) during which the Western church had first two, and later three, lines of popes.

David Donatello

Jan 1, 1386

(1386-1466) Spent time in Rome studying and copying the statues of antiquity. His subsequent work in Florence reveals how well he had mastered the esseece of what he saw. The statue of David was one of his first known life-size, free-standing nude in European art since antiquity.

Jan Van Eyck

Jan 1, 1390

(1390-1441) He was amoung the first to use oil paint, which allowed artists to use a range of colors and create fine detail. Giovanni Arnolfiniand His Bride is one of his famous works. This emphesis on realistic portrayal is clearly evident in this oil painting.

Prince Henry the Navigator

Jan 1, 1394

(1394 – 1460) He was an infante of the Kingdom of Portugal and an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire. He was responsible for the early development of European exploration and maritime trade with other continents.

Masaccio-Tribute Money

Period: Jan 1, 1401 to Jan 1, 1428

The Tribute Money is a fresco by the Italian renaissance painter Masaccio, it is located in the Brancacci Chapel of the basilica of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, and completed by his senior collaborator, Masolino. Painted in the 1420s, it is widely considered among Massaccio's best work, and a vital part of the development of renaissance art.

Council of Constance

Period: Jan 1, 1414 to Jan 1, 1418

he Council of Constance is the 15th ecumenical council recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, held from 1414 to 1418. The council ended the Three-Popes Controversy, by deposing or accepting the resignation of the remaining Papal claimants and electing Pope Martin V.The council's main purpose was to end the Papal schism which had resulted from the confusion following the Avignon Papacy.

Neoplatonism

Period: Jan 1, 1433 to Jan 1, 1499

Ficino dedicated his life to the translation of Plato and the exposition of the Platonic philosophy. In two major works, Ficino undertook the synthesis of Christianity and Platonism into a single system. Neoplatonism was a theory of spiritual love. He believed that just as all people are bound together in their common humanity by love, so are all the parts of the universe held together by bonds of sympathetic love.

Federico de Montefeltro

Jan 1, 1444

Federico da Montefeltro, also known as Federico III da Montefeltro (1422 – 1482), was one of the most successful condottieri of the Italian Renaissance.

Sandro Botticelli

Jan 1, 1445

(1445-1510) He had an interest in Greek and Roman mythology and was well reflected in one his most famous paintings of Primavera. The painting is set in a garden of eternal spring. His work reflects a strong interest in classical antiquity. Later in his life, he experienced a profound religious crisis which led him to only paint religous works and to burn earlier paintings fo gods and goddess'.

War of Roses

Jan 1, 1450

This civil war pitted the ducal house of Lancaster, whose symbol was a red rose against the ducal house of York, whose symbol of a white rose. King Henry defeated the Yorkist king Richard III in 1485. He then established a monarchial government. He ended private wars, and controlled the irresponsible activity of the nobles by establishing the Court of Star Chamber, which did not use juries and allowed torture to be used to extract information.

Christopher Columbus

Jan 1, 1451

(1451-1506) - He was knowledable Europeans were aware that the world was round but they had little understanding of it. Columbus felt that Asia could be reached by sailing west instead of around Africa. He persuaded Queen Isabella of Spain his fiance of his exploratory expedition. He was also responsible for the invasion that led to the destruction of an entire way of life. He never painted during his life but numerous portraits are painted ad they are more fanciful than accurate.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Jan 1, 1452

(1452-1519) Leonardo Da Vinci was the impetus behind the High Renaissance concern for the idealization of nature, moving from a realistic portrayal of the human figure to an idealized form. Evident in the painting of the Last Supper. His effort to depict a persons character and inner nature by the use of gesture and movement. He laster used an experimental tecnique in this fresco, which soon led to deterioration.

Joannes Gutenberg

Jan 1, 1455

He had a big role in bringing the process of the movable type. Gutenberg's bible was completed in 1455 or 1456 and it was the first book to be made with a movable type. The new printing spread fast and into Europe. The printing press was established throughout the Holy Roman Empire and within ten years it spread to Italy, France, and the low countries.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Jan 1, 1463

(1463-1494) He produced one of th emost famous pieces of writing of the Renaissance, the Oration on the Dignity of Man. PIco offered a ringing statement of unlimited human potential: " to him it is granted to have whatever he chooses to be waht he wills." He took interest in Hermetric philosphy, accepting it as the "science of the Divine," which embraces the deepest contemplation of te most secret things and at last the knowledge of all nature.

Desiderius Erasmus

Jan 1, 1466

(1466-1536)- Eramus of Rotterdam was the most influential of all the Christian humanists. who formulated and popularized the reform program of Christian humanism. He called the ceonception of religion "the philophy of Christ".

Machiavelli

Jan 1, 1469

(Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) Wrote the Prince and it gave him concrete expression to the Renaissance preoccupation with political power. THis slender volume remains one of the most famous and most widely read Western Treaties on politics.

Lorenzo de' Medici

Jan 1, 1469

Lorenzo (1469-1492) He was known as Lorenzo the Magnificent. He was a diplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets. His life coincided with the high point of the early Italian Renaissance; his death marked the end of the Golden Age of Florence.

Michelangelo

Jan 1, 1475

(1475-1564) He was an accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect. He influenced Neoplatoism, which is evident in his cieling master piece of Sistine Chapel in Rome.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Jan 1, 1475

(1475-1519)- He was an spanish explorer, and led an expedition across the Isthmus of Panama and reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513.

Thomas More

Jan 1, 1478

(1478-1535)- THe son of London lawyer, received benefits of a good education. He took an avid interest in the new classical learning and became proficient in both Latin and Greek. His career in goverment service did not keep him from the intellectual and spiritual interests. He was well aquainted with other English humanismts and became good friend with Erasmus. One of his works includes Utopia, written in 1516.

Ferdinand Magellan

Jan 1, 1480

(1480-1521) - The most dramatic voyages was made by this and man and after through the strait named after him at the sounthern tip of Africa he sailed across the Pacific Ocean and reached the Philipines, where he met his death at the hands of the natives. His original fleet of five ships survived and the name Magellan is still associated with the first known circumnavigation.

Guicciardini

Jan 1, 1483

(1483-1540) He has been called by some Renaissance scholars the greatest historian between Tacitus in the first century. To Guicciardini the purpose of writing was to teach lessons bt to also incorperate historical events that he felt those lessons were not always obvious. He developed skills that enabled him to analyze political situations and also military history.

Raphael

Jan 1, 1483

(1483-1520) He started painting at 25 years old. He was known as one of Italy's best. He painted donnas which explained that beauty far supasses human standards. Raphael arrived in Rome in 1508 and began to paint a series of frescoes comissioned by Pope Julius II for the papal apartments. In The School Of Athens painting that he had painted in 1510, he produced an imaginary gathering of ancient philosophers. In the center stands Plato and Aristotle.

Ulrich Zwingli

Jan 1, 1484

(1484-1531)- He began the Reformation inSwitzerland through his preaching in Zurich. His theology was accepted in Zurich and soon spread to other Swiss cities.

Bartolomeu Dias Voyage

Jan 1, 1488

Bartolomeu Dias (1451-1500)- was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.Dias was a Knight of the royal court, superintendent of the royal warehouses, and sailing-master of the man-of-war, Saint Christopher. King John II of Portugal appointed him, on 10 October 1487, to head an expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa in the hope of finding a trade route to India.

Jesuits

Period: Jan 1, 1491 to Jan 1, 1556

This word means, Society of Jesus. Found by a spanish nobleman, Ignatius of Loyola.. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a perception of its members' willingness to go anywhere in the world and live in extreme conditions.

Treaty of Tordesillas

Period: Jan 1, 1494 to Jan 1, 1520

The Treaty of Tordesillas was intended to resolve the dispute that had been created following the return of Christopher Columbus. divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Spain and Portugal along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands. This line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde Islands (already Portuguese) and the islands discovered by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage

Voyage of De Gama

Jan 1, 1497

Vasco De Gama (1469-1524)- was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India. For a short time in 1524 he was the Governor of Portuguese India, under the title of Viceroy.On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon. The distance traveled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than around the equator.

The Book of the Courtier

Jan 1, 1500

It was first published in 1528 and was written by Italian Baldassare Castiglone. His work became popular throughout Europe and remained a fundamental handbook for European aristocrats.

Charles V

Nov 26, 1500

(1500-1558) was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I, of the Spanish Empire from 1516 until his voluntary retirement and abdication in favor of his younger brother Ferdinand I and his son Philip II in 1556.

John Calvin

Jan 1, 1509

(1509-1564) He was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. he abandoned his life as humanist lawyer, he broke from the Roman Catholic Church around 1530 and became a reformer. After religious tensions provoked a violent uprising against Protestants in France, Calvin fled to Basel. Where he published his first work.

Henry VIII of England

Jan 1, 1509

(1509-1547) He had seven wives andas Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France. Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Besides his six marriages, Henry VIII is known for his role in the separation of the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church. Henry's struggles with Rome led to the separation of the Church of England from papal authority.

Diet of Worms

Jan 1, 1521

It was a diet or, a formal deliberative assembly, specifically an Imperial Diet, that took place in Worms, Germany, and is most memorable for the Edict of Worms, which addressed Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation.

Elizabeth I

Nov 27, 1533

(1533-1603)- she was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess. She wished England to not to be torn over matters such as religion.

Council of Trent

Period: Jan 1, 1543 to Jan 1, 1565

It was the 16th-century Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. It is considered to be one of the Church's most important councils. It convened in Trent in twenty-five sessions for three periods. Council fathers met for the first through eighth sessions in Trent and for the ninth through eleventh sessions in Bologna

Predestination

Jan 1, 1563

In theology is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God. John Calvin interpreted biblical predestination to mean that God willed eternal damnation for some people and salvation for others. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the so-called "paradox of free will," whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will.

Spanish Armada

Period: Jan 1, 1588 to Jan 1, 1609

This was the Spanish fleet that sailed against England under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia in 1588, with the intention of overthrowing Elizabeth I of England to stop English involvement in the Spanish Netherlands and English privateering in the Atlantic and the Pacific.

Edict of Nantes

Jan 1, 1598

It was issued on 13 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France (also known as Huguenots) substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholic. In the Edict, Henry aimed primarily to promote civil unity. The Edict separated civil from religious unity, treated some Protestants for the first time as more than mere schismatics and heretics, and opened a path for secularism and tolerance. In order to be free.

Clovis

Mar 2, 2022

He was the first King of the Franks to unite all the Frankish tribes under one ruler. He was also the fisr Catholic to rule over Gaul. He was the son of Childeric I and Basina.

Holy Roman Empire

Mar 2, 2022

It was a realm that existed from 962 to 1806 in Central Europe. It was ruled by the Holy Roman Emperor. Its character changed during the Middle Ages and the Ealy Modern period.

Treaty of Verdan

Mar 2, 2022

It was a treaty between the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, the son and successor of Chalemagne, which divided the Carolignian Empire into three kingdoms. It eneded the three long Carolingian Civil War.

Vladamir

Mar 2, 2022

It is a city in the administrative center of Vladamir Oblast, Russia, located on the Klyazma River, 200 kilimeters to the east of Moscow along the M7 motor way.

Gregory I

Mar 2, 2022

He is better known in English as Gregory the Great, was the pope until his death. He was well known for his writings, which were more prolific than those of any of his precessors as pope. Throughout the the Middle Ages he was known as the "Father of Christian Worship" because his exceptional efforts in revising the Roman worship of his day.

Charlamange

Period: Mar 2, 2022 to Mar 2, 2022

The son of King Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, a Frankish queen, he succeeded his father in 768 and was initially co-ruler with his brother Carloman I. It has often been suggested that the relationship between Charlemagne and Carloman was not good, but it has also been argued that tensions were exaggerated by Carolingian chroniclers..

Benedic of Nursia

Period: Mar 2, 2022 to 547

He is a Christian saint, honored by the Roman Catholic Church as the patron saint of Europe and students. Benedict found twelve communities for monks at Subiaco, about 40 miles to eat of Rome. His main acheivement was his RULE, containing precepts for his monks. As a refult he became one of the most influential religous rules in Western Christendom. He is also called the founder of western Christian monasticism.