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| List of plates | |
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| List of maps | |
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| List of figures | |
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| Preface | |
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| Preface to the second edition | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Pre-Medieval Church | |
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| The apostolic church | |
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| The spread of Christianity | |
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| The persecutions: a historical problem | |
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| Constantine, controversy and conversion | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The beginning of the Middle Ages | |
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| The Germans | |
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| Conversion of the Franks | |
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| Catholic Spain | |
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| Conversion of the Irish | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Justinian and Mohammed | |
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| Justinian's achievement | |
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| Justinian and the law | |
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| Justinian and church buildings | |
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| The Lombards | |
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| Islam | |
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| The land of Mohammed | |
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| The Prophet | |
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| The Koran | |
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| Conquests | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The scene is set: St Gregory the Great to St Boniface | |
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| Gregory the Great | |
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| Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons | |
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| The transmission of learning | |
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| English mission to the Continent | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Church, Carolingians and Vikings | |
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| Franco-papal alliance | |
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| The Carolingians and church practice | |
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| The Vikings | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The church in disarray, c.850-c.1050 | |
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| Pope Nicholas I (858-67) | |
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| Formosus (891-96) | |
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| Pope John XII (955-64) | |
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| Pope Benedict IX (1032-45; ?1047-48) | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Reform, the East, crusade | |
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| Eleventh-century reform | |
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| The Eastern Church | |
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| The First Crusade | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The twelfth century | |
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| Popes and anti-popes and. emperors | |
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| New religious orders | |
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| Popular devotion and practical piety | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Three twelfth-century profiles | |
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| Peter Abelard (c.1079-1142) | |
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| Thomas Becket (c.1120-70) | |
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| Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The age of Innocent III | |
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| The political Innocent | |
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| The Fourth Crusade (1202-4) | |
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| The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The emergence of dissent and the rise of the friars | |
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| Dissent | |
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| The friars | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Two legacies: universities and cathedrals | |
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| Universities | |
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| Cathedrals | |
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| Appendix: medieval cathedrals: a select list | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Developments and fulfilments: the later thirteenth century | |
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| Popes and kings | |
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| Reconquista | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Death and purgatory | |
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| The Black Death | |
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| The emergence of purgatory | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Exile in Avignon and aftermath | |
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| The Popes and Avignon | |
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| Two elections and the coming of schism | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The Great Schism | |
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| The road to Pisa | |
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| The road to Constance | |
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| Wyclif and Hus | |
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| Back to Constance | |
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| Further reading | |
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| The fifteenth century | |
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| Popes and councils | |
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| Christian piety | |
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| Further reading | |
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| Epilogue: 1492: the anatomy of a year | |
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| List of popes, 500-1500 | |
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| Index | |