From Augustine to Anglicanism

Rome fell in 410.  The last twenty years of Augustine’s life cannot be disassociated from this event.  His writings stand as the high-water mark of Christian theology, only to be equaled during the Reformation.  Augustine died in 430 during a siege of Hippo by the Arian people know as the Vandals, who captured North Africa and persecuted the Catholic church for decades.  The classical world was coming to an end as the Christian world transitioned into a very different medieval society. 

Western Europe would stay this way for over one thousand years before men like Martin Luther, John Calvin, and Thomas Cranmer would lead the reformation of the Catholic Church, giving birth to the Protestant Reformation and the birth of Anglicanism.