the collapse of the roman empire signified the beginning of republican in western europe.
the collapse of the roman empire signified the beginning of republican in western europe.
the collapse of the roman empire signified the beginning of what in western europe?
republican
during the period of european history often called the "dark ages" which followed the collapse of the western roman empire, church scholars and missionaries played a vital role in preserving knowledge of classical learning. while the roman empire and christian religion survived in an increasingly hellenised form in the byzantine empire centred at constantinople in the east, western civilisation suffered a collapse of literacy and organisation following the fall of rome in 476ad. monks sought refuge at the far fringes of the known world: like cornwall, ireland, or the hebrides. disciplined christian scholarship carried on in isolated outposts like skellig michael in ireland, where literate monks became some of the last preservers in western europe of the poetic and philosophical works of western antiquity. by around 800ad they were producing illuminated manuscripts such as the book of kells, by which old learning was re-communicated to western europe. the hiberno-scottish mission led by irish and scottish monks like st columba spread christianity back into western europe during the middle ages, establishing monasteries through anglo-saxon england and the frankish empire during the middle ages.
role of christianity in civilization
in addition to remaining as a concept for an administrative unit in the remaining empire, the ideal of the roman empire as a mighty christian empire with a single ruler further continued to appeal to many powerful rulers in western europe. with the papal coronation of charlemagne as "emperor of the romans" in 800 ad, his realm was explicitly proclaimed as a restoration of the roman empire in western europe under the concept of "translatio imperii". though the carolingian empire collapsed in 888 and berengar, the last "emperor" claiming succession from charlemagne, died in 924, the concept of a papacy- and germanic-based roman empire in the west would resurface in the form of the holy roman empire in 962. the holy roman emperors would uphold the notion that they had inherited the supreme power and prestige of the roman emperors of old until the downfall of the holy roman empire in 1806.
western roman empire