Western Church in the Middle Ages

Name: Western Church in the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780340601181

ISBN-10: 0340601183

ISBN-13: 9780340601181

Edition: 1998

Authors: John A. F. Thomson

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From its origins in the ancient world as a rival to traditional paganism, Christianity has grown to become one of the greatest religions the world has ever known. How the church took over spiritual control of Western Europe to become the very foundation of medieval life--setting a moral agenda for all of society and dominating its intellectual pursuits--is the guiding inquiry at the heart of this book. Covering the period between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Reformation, this account is structured in three chronological blocks: the gradual development of unity within the Western Church up to the eleventh century; the centralization phase between the eleventh and thirteenth…

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List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
Publication date: 1/30/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.68" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations



The Age of Convergence (c.450-1050)


The Spread and Consolidation of Christianity


Religion and the Idea of Holiness


The Rise of the Papacy


The Church in the Localities


Belief and Worship



The Age of Unification (1050-1270)


Gregorian Reform - the Clerical Order


Gregorian Reform - Popes and the Lay World


Regular Ideals in a Changing World


Heresy and Orthodoxy


Logic


Theology and Law


Authority and Government



The Age of Divergence (1270-1515)


From victory to captivity


Schism and Councils


Intellectual and Theological Controversies


Piety-Orthodox and Heretical


The Age of Concordats


The Church in the Early Sixteenth Century


Appendices


Bibliography