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History of Arch
Test 2 / Session 14
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Undergraduate 2
10/01/2010

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Alric
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king of the Visigoths who sacked Rome in 410
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St. Benedict
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author of the Benedictine Rule and founder of the monastic community at Montecassino, Italy in 520 AD
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chapter house
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building attached to the church in which monastic community affairs were administered and the Benedictine Rule was read on a daily basis
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Carolingian
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of Charlemagne or his period
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Charlemagne
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Charles the Great, King of Franks from 771-814; crowned emperor in 800 by Pope Leo III
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Franks
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Germanic tribe which established a kingdom in northern and western France
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St. Patrick
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reputedly established the monastic tradition and Ireland in 432
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Ottonian
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of the three major emperors, 962 t0 1002
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Pepin
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king of the Franks from 754 to 771. Father of Charlemagne
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Visigoths
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Germanic tribe that established a kingdom in Spain
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westwork
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the west end of a Carolingian or Romanesque church, consisting of a low entrance hall and above it a room open to the nave
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cluny
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Benedictine monastery in western France 909-1120
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