HIST-211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 82: High King Of Ireland, Bretwalda, Migration Period
23 Sep 2020
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Some scholars have also suggested a softening in roman imperial patriarchy in this era. One of the benefits of social disarray is that it becomes harder to enforce unjust social and domestic norms: christian convents. Some might see the emergence of christian convents as unfree for women, the opposite was sometimes true. Becoming a nun or adopting a life of christian asceticism could afford women new opportunities: st. radegund. Fled an upper class background full of forced marriages and sexual violence for a life of ascetic agency. Originally thuringian, became a frankish queen before giving it all up for asceticism. In doing so, she spurred on the development of monasticism across what is now germany and. New germanic migrations took place in the 5th and 6th centuries further north and across the channel. Angles and saxons arrived among other groups and brought with them their own non-christian traditions: celtic briton.
