Beschreibung:
In this fascinating survey, F. Donald Logan introduces the reader to the Christian church, from the conversion of the Celtic and Germanic peoples through to the discovery of the New World.
Preface. Introduction. 1. The Pre-Medieval Church 2. The Beginning of the Middle Ages 3. Justinian and Mohammed 4. The Scene is Set: St Gregory the Great to St Boniface 5. Church, Carolingians and Vikings 6. The Church in Disarray, c.850-c.1050 7. Reform, the East, Crusade 8. The Twelfth Century 9. Three Twelfth-Century Profiles 10. The Age of Innocent III 11. The Emergence of Dissent and the Rise of the Friars 12. Two Legacies: Universities and Cathedrals 13. Developments and Fulfilments: the Later Thirteenth Century 14. Death and Purgatory 15. Exile in Avignon and Aftermath 16. The Great Schism 17. The Fifteenth Century. Epilogue: 1492: the anatomy of a year. List of popes, 500-1500