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  More info about: Confessions, Saint Augustine
  Confessions, Saint Augustine
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions...
         
  More info about: Attila, King of the Huns
  Attila, King of the Huns
In 445, Attila (also spelled Attilla) became the sole leader of the Huns after murdering his brother. The Romans called Attila the "Scourge of God." When...
         
  More info about: City of God, St. Augustine
  City of God, St. Augustine
Augustine's City of God, a monumental work of religious lore, philosophy, and history, was written as a kind of literary tombstone for Roman culture. After the sack of Ro...
         
  More info about: The Huns
  The Huns
The event which, more than any other, presaged the fall of the Roman Empire was the arrival of a group of the Huns in Eastern Europe, forcing many Germanic peoples to mig...
         
  More info about: Odoacer, End of Western Roman Empire
  Odoacer, End of Western Roman Empire
Odoacer was the half Hunnish, half Scirian chieftain of the Germanic Heruli. He is best known to history as the man who deposed the last Western Roman Emperor, Romulus Au...
         
  More info about: Merovingian Dynasty
  Merovingian Dynasty
The Merovingians were a dynasty of Frankish kings who ruled a frequently fluctuating area in parts of present-day France and Germany from the 5th to the 8th century AD. T...
         
  More info about: MuslimHeritage.com - Timeline
  MuslimHeritage.com - Timeline
Schools, Colleges and Universities can benefit from textbook quality history content and knowledge that show Muslims as natural pioneers of human civilisation. It was du...
         
  More info about: Venice, a Virtual History
  Venice, a Virtual History
Illustrated history of the Republic of Venice based on a 1,345 year timeline. Serenissima, Veneto, Attila, Alboin, Lombards, Pepin, Charlemagne, Italy, Dalmatia, Fourth C...
         
  More info about: Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths
  Theodoric, King of the Ostrogoths
King of the Ostrogoths and founder of the Ostrogothic kingdom in Italy. Sent by the Byzantine emperor Zeno to invade Italy in 488, he made himself sole ruler by 493 and m...
         
  More info about: Clovis, KIng of the Franks
  Clovis, KIng of the Franks
The founder of the Merovingian dynasty of Frankish kings, Clovis defeated the last Roman ruler in Gaul and conquered various Germanic peoples in what is today France. His...
         
  More info about: Dionysius, Introduction 'Anno Domini'
  Dionysius, Introduction 'Anno Domini'
Dionysius Exiguus has left his mark conspicuously, for it was he who introduced the use of the Christian Era according to which dates are reckoned from the Incarnation, w...
         
  More info about: Aryabhata, Inventor of the Digit Zero
  Aryabhata, Inventor of the Digit Zero
Aryabhata is the first of the great astronomers of the classical age of India. He was born in 476 AD in Ashmaka but later lived in Kusumapura, which his commentator Bhask...
         
  More info about: MIDDLE AGES
  MIDDLE AGES
The Middle Ages was the middle period in a schematic division of European history into three 'ages': Classical civilization, the Middle Ages, and Modern Civilization. It...
         
  More info about: Boethius, Roman Scholar
  Boethius, Roman Scholar
In two ways, Boethius was unique. He was far and away the best educated Roman of his age: indeed, there had been no one like him for a century, and there would never be a...
         
  More info about: Saint Benedict
  Saint Benedict
Born in the district of Nurcia, in Umbria, central Italy, he was sent to Rome for his studies; but left there and joined (c 500) a sort of community of ecclesiastical stu...
         
         
 
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